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Meanwhile on Windows: "That's just my antivirus. Yeah... I won't be very productive for the next 20 minutes."
It's a real problem. I think there's a Firefox bug where Firefox will freeze while checking for updates while the CPU is under heavy load.
It's fucked-up that Firefox even checks for updates itself (instead of letting the package manager do it) in the first place. It wouldn't have the bug if it didn't have the unnecessary functionality.
Just invent a physical package manager where you get all your software packages in the mail every week :D
Interesting. On which distro? I don't have this problem on Fedora. Here the update check is disabled by default.
In context, my comment was really more about dunking on Windows for not having proper package management. Firefox only "needs" that feature because it's working around Windows' deficiencies.
I'm pretty sure it's disabled on the M$ Store version.
Also, on macOS it's so annoying that literally every app checks for (and even wants to install) updates while I have the Brew package manager installed.
You can disable it, but yeah... You shouldn't have to if it's being handled by the package manager
Any chance this could be disabled? I'm realizing I may run into this problem quite a bit
Yeah, probably easiest & best to uninstall and reinstall with a package manager. Anything that manages updates will likely have Firefox configured to not check for updates
If you are a GUI kind of guy try your OS's app store.
Otherwise apt, yum, homebrew or winget should do the trick :)
Heres an informative forum post about it: https://superuser.com/questions/1370165/disable-or-control-upgrading-of-firefox
I thought the problem was that they WEREN'T configured to not check for updates. Will look into this
I can make Firefox use way too much resources simply by visiting an Instagram profile & opening the toolbox on a few posts to inspect the code....
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