[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1964997] Re: Firefox updates uncontrollably

2022-03-15 Thread Ian Johnston
While that is a useful and informative account of the reasoning behind the problem, I would respectfully suggest that Firefox's inability (a) to shut down gracefully, giving time to save work and (b) to reopen the tabs are indeed bugs. It doesn't even restart itself, though it says it will. As a w

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1964997] Re: Firefox updates uncontrollably

2022-03-15 Thread Olivier Tilloy
This is caused by the fact that updates to Firefox are published as security updates, and the default configuration is to automatically download and install security updates. Which is a sensible default for most users, but I agree can be disrupting in the case of a long running end-user application