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Can you disable firefox forced updates? (lemmy.world)
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Firefox will sometimes stop me from making a new tab and force me to update, is there a way to bypass this screen? Just to be clear I don't want to remove auto-updates, just stop it from forcing me.

Today I was writing something and it made me update. Meaning I had to stop working on the thing I was writing so I could close the browser. Then when it updated it deleted all my toolbars whyyyyyy.

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then when it updated it deleted all my toolbars whyyyyyy.

Deleted your toolbars? Maybe raise a bug about that in the Firefox bug tracker.

If you mean tabs then there's a setting to keep tabs are a restart. Makes restarting less of an issue. I have about 60 tabs open at any one time and haven't lost one in years over multiple restarts and upgrades.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

I'm on nightly, so it doesn't really count, but a week ago or so all addons (yes, all 20) were instantly uninstalled (including the "sad to see you go"-screens of some), and once all tabs were closed. With backups I figured out which I needed and reinstalled them, but ... pretty annoying.

[–] hanrahan 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you mean tabs then there's a setting to keep tabs are a restart

That's never worked for me. If I close FF and reopen its starts fresh with.noting open. If I close the OS, and restart only then does FF reopen all the tabs.

I am currently on LMDE but the same process happened when I was on Windows 10 and Linux Mint . I have the setting selected to restore previous open tabs but it's just never worked across many years, many updates and multiple OS's.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Strange. Works for me running Ubuntu on two different laptops. 🤷