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Restart to Keep Using Firefox

2 points by naltroc ↗ HN
did you wakeup to this message? Did you also disable automatic updates in Firefox settings as well as with about:config?

I've been on the borderline of disowning FireFox because of this forced auto-restart behavior. Vendor lock in has been the only thing keeping me on FF; my beloved browser of the past 15 years. Unfortunately they have recently borrowed too much UX from Microsoft.

Here's my final attempt to keep my browsing sessions uninterrupted:

``` sudo apt-mark hold firefox ```

If any Mozilla employees see this, I am begging you to respect the user's choice to postpone updates to when it works for them. You have interrupted my browsing sessions for the nth time and I can't take it anymore.

If you override my system level package settings then it's time for a permanent uninstall.

If anyone else has found a solution to disable (and truly disable) auto-updates in contemporary Firefox, please lmk

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mtmail
Do you have https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades enabled? I'm just thinking if the work-around is an 'apt' command maybe it's not the Firefox app itself doing the upgrades.
naltroc
excellent suggestion, exactly the thing I hoped to see when publicly complaining here. Thanks! Just updated the setting.
alpaca128
I don't think I've ever seen this with auto-updates turned off.
sds357
Is this really that big of a deal? FF auto restores sessions on restart, even multiple windows with lots of tabs in each.
naltroc
you lose any local JS state, and it silently kills network requests of open tabs