Why can’t the devs have it update in the background or on next startup? I was in the middle of my work when I got this. Now I need to close everything and go through all the logins and 2FA again. 😡
Chrome is much better at this, hands down. It has never interrupted me the way Firefox does during updates.
And if you’d tried to use a search engine in that new tab, you’re presented with a blank tab after restart, having to remember what your search query was.
Do you often forget what you were searching for?
The general idea? More or less never.
Some fine important details? Every now and again
When does this appear?
For me this happens after I update Linux, so if you have Firefox open while a Firefox update is installing, upon finishing, if you open a new tab in Firefox then it shows that screen. For me the more annoying part is that on Linux the language I set Firefox to is reset to Englisch after every update, I maybe set something up wrong because on windows I don’t remember having this problem but it happens after every Firefox update on linux
Manual update is best update. FF has background update tho, and it shouldnt log you out from your websites unless you have it set to delete cookies on exit or smthng.
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I get something similar to this on Linux all the time and it makes it hard to choose Firefox, as much as I want to try.
I dug around once to try to find out why and how to stop it. The alternative is just straight up crashing, and so they chose to slap up that blank new tab page instead. related bugzilla
Depending on how you’ve installed it / configured updates, you may just be out of luck whenever an auto update happens and you just have to restart the browser.
It sucks, even if it remembers your tabs, because some of them are inevitably returned in a different state, have to relogin, etc.
I have never seen this in all my time using Firefox. It always tells me there’s an update available and prompts a restart but I can still continue using the browser.
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This happens when FF updates out of band. Ie package manager.
Your windows updates are probably set to also get applications when it updates. Turn that off and see what happens (next month).
At least I see it coming as I manually do updates on my Linux machine, so I know when I’ve updated Firefox.
The one that gets me is some websites don’t throw that message, they just fail to load. Youtube is bad at that.
I’ve been using Firefox since 1.0PR and I’ve never seen this message before. For me, Firefox has always quietly downloaded the update in the background and then installed it the next time I used it.
I’m curious to know just exactly what it is you’re doing to make this message come up.
I typically keep Firefox open all the time with 50-100 tabs, (using various extensions to keep the organized)
This happens to me every few weeks and it’s genuinely annoying, unless I had all my tabs saved it just lose them, and instead of giving me a chance to do that, Firefox just becomes useless until I hit the button.
I don’t understand why, if it’s going to put a page like this up anyway, that it doesn’t just restart on its own; I would prefer it to not do either but at least that removes the unneeded button click.
You should be able to replicate it with:
- Ubuntu 20.04 container
- Install Firefox from a deb earlier than 120.0.1(current in repo)
- Open a few tabs and navigate to various web apps
- apt update, upgrade
- Once update completes, open new tab and navigate somewhere, you’ll get this message
Not sure if it actually happens with each update, but it seems so to me.
I saw this yesterday on Linux after a typical update command and it surprised me. Restarting FF reopened all my tabs without issue and it wasn’t really an inconvenience to me.
Can I see your update settings? Should be under FireFox Updates in General.
I use it on both Windows and Mac, I’ve never seen this o.o
I’ve seen it multiple times over the years. Don’t know what could be causing this.
In my experience - having 2 different instances (e.g. if you want 2 icons on the taskbar) and one having updated.
Yup! Two different profiles running at the same time. As soon as I update one, I’ll update the other one as well to avoid this.
Though whenever I forget, it’s a pain!!
I think this could be handled differently. Interrupting the user’s work half-way through is such a bad, bad form.
It’s after an update, since the update might change used files.
Yup, this is called ‘User Error’. User messes it up, User blames the software.
Does Firefox communicate this to the user?
It’s very clearly communicated when you install and set it up.
- × Allow Firefox to automatically install updates (recommended)
- ✔ Check for updates but let you choose to install them.
- × Use a background service to install updates.
Even in automation updation process, user’s work shouldn’t be interrupted.
A) this doesn’t explain which options will cause workflow halts for updates. B) your own example shows you selecting the non standard option.
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If you don’t want this you can change things.
When you first install Firefox, uncheck install updates as a service. Personally, I don’t like applications running services in the background all the time. When I close something I expect it to be gone, and I don’t want it running until I tell it to.
Second, go into settings and change your update settings to “Check for updates but let you choose to install them”. Firefox will pop up with a discrete notification telling you when an update is available, asking you to download, then another dismissable notification telling you to restart to update.
Stupid people don’t read anything when they install, then they complain they didn’t ask for this…
just don’t update stuff unless you’re ready to restart apps? cuz you’re not gonna get the new stuff until it restarts anyway. also it should restore your session
Why is this being downvoted? It’s true, don’t upgrade if you can’t affort to restart. If it is some shitty OS or package manager feature that does this automatically, then turn it off.
This is automatic update. Not manual.
wow, I have never got that, always does the click here to update when updates are managed by the browser itself
like others said FF never update during browsing;something wrong with your windows
Yup, they should label it ‘Automatic Updates - for Idiots Only’ with a checkbox…
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