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119 points mikece | 4 comments | 02 Jul 25 15:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.78s | 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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potato-peeler ◴[02 Jul 25 16:07 UTC] No.44445416[source]▶
It’s just few minutes of update time. If one is so short of time, perhaps they need to re-evaluate other things.
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amendegree ◴[02 Jul 25 16:16 UTC] No.44445529[source]▶
The issue isn’t time, it’s that I’m in the middle of working, I have unsaved work that I can’t save now bec the browser decided to update in the background.
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1. potato-peeler ◴[02 Jul 25 17:24 UTC] No.44446394[source]▶
Sounds like a nothing burger. Firefox allows you to restore tabs. And you can turn off automatic updates. Seriously don’t understand where you are facing this issue. Every commercial grade software allows you to customise your workflow.
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2. chownie ◴[02 Jul 25 17:38 UTC] No.44446578[source]▶
You can restore the URLs but you don't get page state, that draft you couldn't save because Firefox suddenly stopped loading new pages? Completely gone.

The point is that this is poor default user experience, and it should not be this way.

3. snerbles ◴[02 Jul 25 19:31 UTC] No.44447874[source]▶
I've seen tab restoration fail after those automatic updates, and even when the tabs do restore that doesn't mean that the actual state is preserved. Work is interrupted, and it's a burger full of crap when it happens.

That's why I always update my browsers manually.

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4. potato-peeler ◴[02 Jul 25 19:44 UTC] No.44448001[source]▶
Never faced a tab restoration failure. I have used ff in Linux, Mac OS, windows. Managing updates, or page states, or tabs, never had an issue. And never felt needed special extensions to manage anything.

This definitely look like an issue with your own setup. But If you did face issues, you can always file a bug.