Restart to Keep Using Firefox

2 pointsnaltroc2y ago5 comments

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