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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 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[โ€“] Liquid_Fire 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Are you sure you don't have some other software updating Firefox in the background?

Normally this only happens on Linux when your package manager updates Firefox while it's running, and on Windows that doesn't happen because Firefox updates itself only when you (re)start it.

[โ€“] TheBat 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, I don't have any such updater programs. Firefox and other programs update themselves or show a pop-up saying new version is available.

on Windows that doesn't happen because Firefox updates itself only when you (re)start it.

I always thought it updates itself in the background and asks user to restart browser? Is that not the case here?

[โ€“] Tolstoy 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any chance you've got Firefox from MS Store?

[โ€“] TheBat 0 points 1 year ago
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