Why can’t the devs have it update in the background or on next startup? I was in the middle of my work when I got this. Now I need to close everything and go through all the logins and 2FA again. 😡

Chrome is much better at this, hands down. It has never interrupted me the way Firefox does during updates.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    484·
    11 months ago

    I’ve been using Firefox since 1.0PR and I’ve never seen this message before. For me, Firefox has always quietly downloaded the update in the background and then installed it the next time I used it.

    I’m curious to know just exactly what it is you’re doing to make this message come up.

    • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
      20·
      11 months ago

      I saw this yesterday on Linux after a typical update command and it surprised me. Restarting FF reopened all my tabs without issue and it wasn’t really an inconvenience to me.

    • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      11 months ago

      You should be able to replicate it with:

      • Ubuntu 20.04 container
      • Install Firefox from a deb earlier than 120.0.1(current in repo)
      • Open a few tabs and navigate to various web apps
      • apt update, upgrade
      • Once update completes, open new tab and navigate somewhere, you’ll get this message

      Not sure if it actually happens with each update, but it seems so to me.

    • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
      115·
      11 months ago

      I typically keep Firefox open all the time with 50-100 tabs, (using various extensions to keep the organized)

      This happens to me every few weeks and it’s genuinely annoying, unless I had all my tabs saved it just lose them, and instead of giving me a chance to do that, Firefox just becomes useless until I hit the button.

      I don’t understand why, if it’s going to put a page like this up anyway, that it doesn’t just restart on its own; I would prefer it to not do either but at least that removes the unneeded button click.