forced restart on background update
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(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)
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(Reporter: ivor.boaz, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.61 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
wait a few days and firefox is updated in the background. try to open a new tab and it will not proceed until the update is installed, killing all windows.
this is extremely inconvenient for me, for my reasons. i am in the process of moving everything over to opera or chrome to handle this. you seem to think that my environment is under your control just because i use your software, it is not.
stop thinking like microsoft does: "we know better and will force you to do whatever we want, you have no choice, we control you, get used to it, bitch"
Actual results:
i am seriously inconvenienced to the point that i will stop using firefox and find another browser
Expected results:
told me there was an update available and given me the choice to remind me later to install it
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Application Update' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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Could you check in your package manager if it is configured to update Firefox?
The typical reason that this happens is that the package manager updates Firefox's files while it is running and, because of that, it becomes unable to start new processes and must be restarted in order to keep functioning.
i have added firefox to the apt blacklist for auto-updates.
let's assume this was the problem and close this for the time being.
thanks for the prompt reply!
richard
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Updated•3 years ago
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