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Is there a way to disable the "Restart to Keep Using Firefox" page? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I find it incredibly disruptive every time this page comes up and it's never completely capable of restoring my tabs. Is there any way to disable it so that it will instead update when I choose to restart Firefox?

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 months ago (3 children)

When this happens, Firefox has been updated in the background & the non-updated parts that're loaded into memory attempted to load one of the updated parts & found that they were no longer compatible, causing this message to appear.

At this point you HAVE to restart Firefox in order to be able to use it, no way around it. Soooo very fun on Mac & Linux since both can update in the background. It's also possible to have this happen on Windows, but it's far more rare as it seems to require having multiple different instances running at once.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

On Linux at least, if you install through the package manager, it'll only update when you update the rest of your packages. And you can be completely in control of when that happens.

On my work Mac, I just update manually. The menu icon tells me when a new version is available, so I update within a day or two of that popping up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On Linux at least, if you install through the package manager, it'll only update when you update the rest of your packages. And you can be completely in control of when that happens.

Except on Ubuntu. Also, fuck snaps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ew, those get installed via the regular package manager?

Don't use Ubuntu then...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu installs the snap version by default whether you're using the GUI software manager or apt.

I use Mint instead nowadays

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Damn, computers have gotten really far if nowadays we're happily throwing away the performance of dockerizing ˜everything on entirely normal application installs. Sigh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sucks when the company I work in uses Kubuntu.

I could disable this feature easily. But idk...

Additionally something to keep in mind: Better than Windows in every aspect. I would still use Kubuntu. Its fine.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably doesn't happen as much on Windows because Windows has issues replacing files that are open.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Common windows W 😎

^/s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Happens to me on Windows about once a week FWIW.