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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is actually not unique to Nightly - the stable build does it, too.

I do recognize that scheduling updates is hard - no user ever wants to stop what they're doing and restart something, and it's important to keep users from running problematically out of date software.

I agree with OP though that this particular interaction is unusually frustrating for me. This message only appears after trying to load a link or a new tab, meaning it's actively waiting for me to want to use the browser before telling me that I can't, essentially guaranteeing it will interrupt my workflow.

I don't have a good suggestion on how to fix this without making the update system less robust - it might just be a necessary evil - but I do feel that OP's concern is legitimate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could Firefox not delay the update until the user actually restarts the browser?