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. 😡
Chrome is much better at this, hands down. It has never interrupted me the way Firefox does during updates.
If you don’t want this you can change things.
When you first install Firefox, uncheck install updates as a service. Personally, I don’t like applications running services in the background all the time. When I close something I expect it to be gone, and I don’t want it running until I tell it to.
Second, go into settings and change your update settings to “Check for updates but let you choose to install them”. Firefox will pop up with a discrete notification telling you when an update is available, asking you to download, then another dismissable notification telling you to restart to update.
Why would you do this? You’re just making your browser less secure and less up to date. FFS, if you’re going to update anything, update the program you use to interact with the rest of the scary internet where you click weird links on all the time.
Absolutely keep it up to date, but I’d like to control when the updates happen so as not to be disruptive.
Yeah this won’t fix out of band updates which is probably what this issue is. Chances are OP is a Linux user who updated their system with a package manager and it pulled down a new version outside of Firefox control. They need to think more about when they run updates on their system if this is causing an issue.
Stupid people don’t read anything when they install, then they complain they didn’t ask for this…