Ben

Whilst I’d like to see some kind of revival, or even revolution, in the browser market here - it does look as if Mozilla are setting out a future business plan which simply does not include Firefox… and if Firefox dips below 2% it will be sidelined as an alternative browser no longer supported.

#1 Gesturefly

'nuff said.

Firefox will not force an update - but it will tell you to restart to continue AFTER it has been updated… learn to control your updates, don’t use Firefox as a Snap if that’s what’s going on.

Very doubtful.

I just tag them when I make them.

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This works fine for me… I had 4 browsers installed last year, so had a variety - like Plex/Overseer/Sonarr opening with Falkon browser and translate with Chrome.

On a limited connection, I’d advise not updating whilst watching a video. It’s also possible to download a video and watch it whilst updating.

Beyond that it’s not easy to answer - as I don’t use discover, but also never do updates without paying attention, so that watching a video at the same time isn’t something I’d contemplate.

This is a pretty dumb question - I would always expect a double-click to fullscreen, and a single click to pause/play on any video in any video player.

The decision was probably made many years ago for the very simple reason that clicking specific targets is much more difficult, so enabling people to use scroll wheel and mouse buttons to do things is a very efficient method of control.

Stupid people don’t read anything when they install, then they complain they didn’t ask for this…

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.

Doesn’t Ctrl+D do that?

I’d go with ‘session manager’ rather than bookmarking… Sounds like you just have too many tabs to manage easily.

Yup, they should label it ‘Automatic Updates - for Idiots Only’ with a checkbox…

Yet another reason never to use Snaps. Why would you allow Ubuntu to force you to use the bloated Snap package?

If that happens, you should recover from a snapshot… I never experienced this unless the profile folder was damaged or lost.

That’s a Linux (and similar) issue. When Linux updates via it’s package managers it will update Firefox in the background even though it’s open.

This is fundamentally wrong. If you are using Firefox on Linux, you would not update at a time when you’re working - because you KNOW that you have to restart it.

It is considered a ‘User Error’ if they update their system and then complain later that they’re unhappy that they suddenly need to restart something.

Yup, this is called ‘User Error’. User messes it up, User blames the software.

This is a completely ridiculous post.

To compare spyware Chrome with Firefox is also a sign that there’s something lacking in this thinking processes…

It seems very obvious to me that this cannot happen unless you specifically choose to update Firefox. Perhaps you have issues with your operating system and don’t understand what you’re doing?

Windows users usually complain about having a ton of services running in the background, so I’d vote that you’ve opted to allow Firefox to run as a service, so even if you close the browser it’s still running there - and probably set to update automatically too.

After updating, then you have to restart it, and there aren’t ‘all the logins and 2FA’ unless you chose to do that. After I restart Firefox, my session is returned to me - without ‘all the logins and 2FA’ because I didn’t set stupid protection to make it forget everything and log out of everything when it gets restarted.

When I update the system, I do it when I’m not busy working - and that means I choose when to update Firefox.

So it cannot interrupt me without MY permission. Then again, I wouldn’t enable any unattended or automatic updates, my updates are checked when I say they should be, they can be automatically downloaded in the background, but NOTHING gets executed unless I allow it.

I suggest you learn to get a grip and learn to use your computer - or sit back and play patsy and allow the software giants completely control your life while you sit back whinging.

The answer to your question is no, Firefox never freezes on my PC - but I do think you should say ‘on Windows 11’ rather than ‘on PC’ because you’re looking for a response tailored to your ‘PC’ and nobody should assume that all personal computers run Windows 11.

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Surely webapp-manager is the way to create webapps on Linux.

Also the extension Pop-Out can pop out any webpage to look like a webapp (but not with it’s own profile etc).