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The fact that firefox updates when I open it instead of when I close it. Has to be the most annoying feature ever. (lemy.lol)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mean like why? Just open and update when I'm done that's what every other browser does. Stop making me wait to use the Internet firefox!

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[–] Sanctus 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm not really hankering for that 4 seconds it takes to restart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Takes longer on older hardware

[–] Sanctus 1 points 9 months ago

My T400 and T480 are nearly indistinguishable from my ThinkCentre M70q Gen 2.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I’m running a 12 year old laptop with 80 tabs open. Last time I did apt upgrade and had to restart the browser it took about six seconds.

[–] GlitzyArmrest 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It matters more when you clear history and cookies automatically at close. You lose your entire session.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Then... don't do that? You can clear history and cookies manually really easily, so if you restart your browser less often than Firefox releases updates (every 4 weeks), you're just opening yourself up to hacks by running an insecure browser.

[–] GlitzyArmrest 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Huh? I restart firefox multiple times a day, I was simply trying to point out that if you have automated updates and automatic clears of browsing data enabled you'll run into this. I'm not about to start doing so manually just because the browser restarts itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can have automatic updates without automatic restarts. I have automatic updates on my work Mac and it never restarts itself. My other computers are Linux, so I control when those get updates.

[–] GlitzyArmrest 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can automate linux updates, and this can be enforced through your organization. So, no, it is not always in the users control, like in the case of having unattended upgrades in linux enabled with enterprise software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Makes sense. I've always had admin access on my Linux boxes, so I haven't read to deal with that.