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Why can't the devs have it update in the background or on next startup? I was in the middle of my work when I got this. Now I need to close everything and go through all the logins and 2FA again. ๐Ÿ˜ก

Chrome is much better at this, hands down. It has never interrupted me the way Firefox does during updates.

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[โ€“] TheBat 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've seen it multiple times over the years. Don't know what could be causing this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In my experience - having 2 different instances (e.g. if you want 2 icons on the taskbar) and one having updated.

[โ€“] elbarto777 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup! Two different profiles running at the same time. As soon as I update one, I'll update the other one as well to avoid this.

Though whenever I forget, it's a pain!!

I think this could be handled differently. Interrupting the user's work half-way through is such a bad, bad form.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I hate the way paint.net does it. It tells you there's an update and that it can do it after you close the program. Cool! So I finish what I'm doing, close paint.net, it updates and then it automatically starts up again. Why? I just closed you, you dummy!

[โ€“] elbarto777 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting! It's been ages since last time I used paint.net on a daily basis. Yeah, that would get on my nerves after a while too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's after an update, since the update might change used files.