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119 points mikece | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 15:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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amendegree ◴[02 Jul 25 15:58 UTC] No.44445317[source]▶
Firefox has the worst update process. Idk how they haven’t figured this out yet, but the fact that I regularly get “restart to finish update and continue browsing” when opening new tabs or links is totally unacceptable. Also the fact that it can’t just update in the background and still requires me to manually accept a UAC prompt is crazy. Especially bec sometimes if you don’t accept the prompt… you can’t open Firefox until you allow it to finish updating. So you don’t really have a choice but to update to the latest.
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jlokier ◴[02 Jul 25 16:05 UTC] No.44445393[source]▶
I find it's worse with Chromium than Firefox. After an update, new tabs don't load properly and links fail, until I manually restart it. In the past I've joined Google Meet meetings in Chromium and found the audio not working because I'd forgotten to restart the browser since the last update.
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1. afeuerstein ◴[02 Jul 25 17:18 UTC] No.44446307[source]▶
Then it sounds like Firefox has the "restart page" to mitigate this exact edge case. Better than having undefined behavior like that imo.

As I get it from other comments, this is not a problem with the built-in updater (as on Windows). On linux, when updating via package manager, you should now this can be an issue with any program. Yes, most programs survive running while being updated, but for a complicated piece of software (like a browser) this behavior is understandable.

See the Arch wiki for updating on Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Restart_...

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2. LargoLasskhyfv ◴[03 Jul 25 00:38 UTC] No.44450383[source]▶
On linux I use kill -9 before any update, on the parent of ff's entire process tree. Works for me every single time, reliably getting my tabs back without the need for any extension.