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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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[–] fidodo 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The better approach would be to prepare the update in the background and swap out the version on the next start

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Isn't that what it does? That's how it works on macOS, and I get prompted to restart on Linux when I install updates in the background.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm on Windows and I don't recall the last time I was inconvenienced by a Firefox update. Like... I can't even remember what it actually does. OP must be running it on a potato or something.

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

I think they mean when you go to open Firefox (when it updates) it immediately closes and reopens the first time? At least mine does that.

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

Mine never does, or if it does, it's so fast I don't notice.

[–] Psythik 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah and it only takes seconds on a decent PC.

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

I thought it did too, but this post says it's different? Maybe they're wrong. I haven't double checked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think Firefox works like Chrome does here. Both give me a little notice in the menu that a new version is ready, and Chrome is a little more annoying about it (turns yellow, then red). I need both for work, and I much prefer how Firefox does it.

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

What I noticed – I turned on my 💻, opened Firefox then Firefox was updating. It was fast. So it hasn't been annoying so far.

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

The only time I've seen that is if I haven't updated in a super long time (e.g. on my Windows partition, which I use like once/year). If I'm using it normally, it installs in the background and I get the new version when I relaunch it. I primarily use macOS (work) and Linux (home), so I guess it's possible my occasional Windows experience is how things normally go, but I think that's a special case for when FF is so out of date that it's unsafe to get without patches.