Applications updating themselves... must be a Windows thing. Didn't they want to copy package management from Linux? Maybe AI can help.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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My issue with FF's auto update is that the behavior is how painfully the auto-update works with multiple profiles.
I'll have one window (well three) open for some (measurable in days) time.
- FF updates silently, I haven't restarted my browser so I haven't noticed.
- I go to open a session in the second (or third profiles)
- FF decides now is a great time to apply the update, after all it just opened right?
- All the existing open browsing sessions in the other profiles get bricked. The tabs just stop responding, no browsing works, just dead in the water.
I have to shut it (all?) down to get it working again.
I don't know how Chrome handles this so I cannot compare. TBH still worth using FF over that adware!
I kinda have an up-to-date fetish, otherwise I wouldn't use Arch testing everywhere, so every time I boot up my PC I instinctively update the system, including firefox, despite that I am already using it.