1579343 - Updating with a package manager breaks user experience

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1705217

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[a.viamontes.esquivel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0

Steps to reproduce:

I was typing a search (in the search bar), in the middle of something that really required concentration, and Firefox refused to do anything saying that it needed to update itself.

Actual results:

Despite my best fiddling with disabling auto-updates, including the settings in the "about:config" page, I couldn't get Firefox to leave the insulting auto-update screen. I had to give up and lost all the tabs a big chunk of time.

Expected results:

Firefox can wait until I close it or the computer starts for it to use his newest-newy bunch of thingies. Or are Firefox devs so self-centered that they don't realize that what other people do is important sometimes?

Comment 1

[a.viamontes.esquivel]

Also, for the record, my computer was restarted yesterday, so this means whatever timer functionality is built into this strike-and-update feature is pretty anxious.

Comment 2

[[:philipp]]

when you're using a distro provided builds and the package manager is updating firefox, the timing of updates is not within firefox' control.

Comment 4

[Thayne]

the timing of updates is not within firefox' control

That doesn't mean firefox should require a restart. Chrome doesn't require me to restart chrome when my package manager updates it, or any other program that I know of for that matter.

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Package manager updates have nothing to do with Toolkit -> Application Update so moving back to untriaged so this can be moved to the correct component.

Comment 9

[Robert Dinse]

I guess this is not going to get fixed.