For me it was the forced automatic updates that made me lose data or waste time numerous times. One was doing taxes, another a full rework of my LinkedIn when I was out of work. I’d complete everything on the web page, press enter, and be greeted with a page telling me to restart to continue using Firefox.
You also only have the ability to pause it, no actual stopping it.
That’s extremely weird, I’ve never heard of Firefox not letting you browse until you update. When snap auto-updates Firefox there’s usually a notification bubble asking to close your browser to update but you can dismiss it and keep browsing in my experience.
It did it to me enough that I blocked firefox from talking to mozilla. I put it on a squid proxy for a few weeks and harvested every mozilla related address it touched and blocked them all. No more updating when I didn’t want it and forcing me to reload in the middle of something.
For me it was the forced automatic updates that made me lose data or waste time numerous times. One was doing taxes, another a full rework of my LinkedIn when I was out of work. I’d complete everything on the web page, press enter, and be greeted with a page telling me to restart to continue using Firefox.
You also only have the ability to pause it, no actual stopping it.
exactly. i don’t want anything on linux to update automatically.
i want to
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgradeand watch the console go brrrrrrrr
That’s extremely weird, I’ve never heard of Firefox not letting you browse until you update. When snap auto-updates Firefox there’s usually a notification bubble asking to close your browser to update but you can dismiss it and keep browsing in my experience.
It did it to me enough that I blocked firefox from talking to mozilla. I put it on a squid proxy for a few weeks and harvested every mozilla related address it touched and blocked them all. No more updating when I didn’t want it and forcing me to reload in the middle of something.