On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:01:07 -0700 stan <upai...@zoho.com> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 05:04:04 +1030 > Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > Tim: > > >> And I can confirm the same thing on my PC using Fedora 36 (which > > >> is usually kept up to date every other day or so). > > > > Beartooth: > > > So it isn't me. That's some slight consolation. But how do > > > I know what repo it's getting all these mandatory instant updates > > > from? > > > > Are you sure it's Firefox, itself, that's updating? > > This. If firefox is coming from the fedora package, and you just > updated, then there should be no updates to firefox, as it will be > fully up to date. If there is some kind of churn, it must be > something else. > > It is good practice to shut down firefox before updating, and restart > it after the updates are done. That way, if a library it depends on > has changed, it will get the new version. Weird things can happen if > you run a program that was started with an older version of a library, > if you run it with a newer version, and it has changed. Not always > crashes. Gnome has mandated shutdown after update (reboot) to be sure > that this problem doesn't occur. I just update from a console with > some programs closed, and haven't had any issues, but they have a > valid point. > > Try creating a new user, and running a generic firefox after an > update. That is, without any addons or customization. Does it still > have the same behavior?
Before you go to the trouble of creating a new user (see man useradd), you could try starting in safe mode. /usr/bin/firefox -safe-mode in a terminal. There are more suggestions here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
