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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Just invent a physical package manager where you get all your software packages in the mail every week :D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. On which distro? I don't have this problem on Fedora. Here the update check is disabled by default.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

You can disable it, but yeah... You shouldn't have to if it's being handled by the package manager

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any chance this could be disabled? I'm realizing I may run into this problem quite a bit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I thought the problem was that they WEREN'T configured to not check for updates. Will look into this