1441489 - Update leaves multiple Volumes mounted slowing down laptop

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

Attachment: Volumes.png

I have noticed that my Macbook Pro slows down over time, as expected. On investigating this I discovered that Firefox leaves a "Firefox Nightly" volume open in /Volumes for every update (see attachment).

This is not a problem for those that restart their laptops each day but it is a big issue for those of us that just sleep or hibernate their laptops each night.

To ensure it was the volumes slowing down my laptop I right-clicked each volume and chose eject... my laptop immediately returned to it's normal speed.

Comment 1

[Molly Howell (she/her) (mostly inactive)]

Hmm. Well, the Firefox updater doesn't download and mount a .dmg like some Mac app updaters do; in fact it doesn't use these .dmg's at all, we have our own update format called MAR that works on all platforms.

Do you maybe have some other software on your machine that's handling updates? I've never heard of anything like that for Mac, only Windows, but it definitely isn't any of our updater code that's doing this, so I'm lacking for helpful ideas.

Comment 2

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

Interesting, I wonder where they could have come from? If it isn't the updater I am happy to close this and log another issue when I know more.