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119 points mikece | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 15:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.264s | 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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1. LargoLasskhyfv ◴[03 Jul 25 00:43 UTC] No.44450412[source]▶
On old and now obsolete systems this is maybe 20 seconds? I invoke the package manager to update just ff. It downloads, gets extracted, then I'm restarting it. It does it's thing, and restores my tabs. After killing it with -9 right before the update.