alt Hacker NewsFor example, Firefox updates by default and forces you to restart it, disabling using websites or seeing any site content before doing so.
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icantevenhold • today at 12:27 AM
Not on my machine
RobotToaster • yesterday at 7:13 PM
I've never seen that behaviour, it downloads updates in the background and then gives me a little notification that I should restart it to update, but it's dismiss-able.
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djsavvy • yesterday at 7:05 PM
I've been using Firefox for years and don't think I've ever seen this. Are you running some custom configuration?
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4chandaily • yesterday at 7:13 PM
Iirc, this is a pattern of the flatpack version of Firefox. I do not believe the .deb does this.
six_seven • yesterday at 7:26 PM
Are you sure this isn't your organization's update policy kicking in here?
On your setup.
Firefox does not only not prompt me for updates (it only updates if I manually run an update), even if I do update with Firefox running, it does not stop me from continuing to use Firefox without restarting it. All I did was install Firefox from flathub (packaged by Mozilla (a default configuration provided by Mozilla)).