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When opening firefox, why do I have to wait for it to update?

I am asking it to open, not to update. You can do it on closing, not on opening. Am I opening the browser for you to update, or for me to navigate?

Every damn time Firefox decides to update, it deletes every single one of my Stylus themes. And yet long standing issues like the Bookmark Tool Bar going blank if you watch video in full screen for too long still exist (10+ years now).

Also, whenever Firefox updates, it royally screws up the session that was active. Instead of opening every window and tab that was open, most of the time only one window gets restored. Sometimes none of the windows get restored because Firefox stupidly opens and then closes again, and then when it opens again, all you get is a page telling you about the stupid feature you don't care about that Firefox updated and ruined everything for.

when i login in to my instagram account it say "your browse dosen't support this page download the newer version of mozilla fire fox to login " also when i login my whatsapp it says the same "update your fire fox" so,i did update as per the instruction and restarted to make it work still both the pages shows the same.

Can the notification for upgrading be controlled on ver 143 on linux. It keeps appearing and as a user I should be able to silience or have it notify me at a period I prefer instead of interrupting browsing.

the last 2 times I have allowed firefox to update my computer, it moves my icloud file to trash, the last time this happened to get my icloud to work I had to reinstall the Icloud on both of my computers and then replace the files. Why does this system always want to update?

The last two updates have destroyed Firefox on my M3 Pro Macbook Pro running Sequoia 15.3.1. Freezes video, then freezes the program. Have to bail out with Force Quit. How do I go back to one that works?

for awhile now I am getting this message. I have multiple browser windows open with multiple tabs each. Even if I delete all but one browser window I still get this message.

What can I do to rid myself of this message?

Thanks leon

I am running Linux and updating firefox messed up many things on my computer -- the extent of which I have not yet determined. The main symptoms are my mouse goes spastic and my X Windows session goes rogue.

I was running an old version of firefox and updated to 142.0.1, I think, and that started all my problems. Successive updates to

       firefox-144.0.2.tar.xz,
       firefox-145.0.2.tar.xz, and
       firefox-145.0.tar.xz

have not solved the problems.

I have it change the number of work spaces in my panel workspace switcher, "roll up" any number of my windows, even those hidden, cause the buttons on the panel to not be responsive to clicks so I cannot log out, cause the mouse to jam up against the top of the screen and get stuck there, like the mouse is disconnected.

Other times it's like the keyboard is disconnected. I cannot type anything anywhere, especially in the terminal windows I have open where I can get focus on the terminal window, but the insertion point cursor is shadowed out like the window does not have focus. When this occurs, I can still close programs by clicking with the mouse on the "close" box in the upper-right corner of windows.

At this point, I can type ctrl-alt-F2 and get to an alternate console and log on as root. I have tried selectively killing processes, but the only thing this accomplishes is stopping my X session and leaving a black console screen. The only ways I have found to get back an X session logon is by executing "shutdown -h now" or "init 1" followed by "init 5".

Yesterday, after cold booting my Linux computer and logging on with only two terminal windows running, I started OpenOffice's spreadsheet program and my mouse pointer disappeared. I had to switch to a text console and restart my computer -- certainly something I never had to do before updating firefox.

I am running:

           libxfce4ui-4.12.1-3.el7.x86_64
         libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.x86_64
       xfce4-settings-4.12.1-1.el7.x86_64
xfce4-session-engines-4.12.1-8.el7.x86_64
          xfce4-panel-4.12.1-4.el7.x86_64

xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.5-2.el7.x86_64

             xfce-polkit-0.2-8.el7.x86_64
      xfce4-terminal-0.8.7.4-2.el7.x86_64
        xfce4-session-4.12.1-8.el7.x86_64
      xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0-4.el7.x86_64
   xfce4-power-manager-1.6.0-2.el7.x86_64

on:

     CentOS 7 with the 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 kernel

It appears I will have to reload my operating system and start over. I do know CentOS 7 is EOL and have been thinking about changing to Rocky Linux. I was happywith Red Hat Linux 5.11 and Gnome 2, which is what a secondary computer is running and have even thought of getting Gnome 2 sources and compiling them under a new version of the OS.

Any other suggestions to stop the wierd behavior to get a little more time out of my existing installation?

Thank you,

Craig

P.S. I am submitting this on a Windows 10 laptop since I now cannot trust my main computer.

Spell out what you want as I personally have no clue.I am 90 years old so what do you want .?, Should I just ignore these requestsd instead , as I have no idea what more to do... When you are 90 I wondder if you understab][nd the request to update. All I use my computer is for personal use only

I have a Mac with Sequoia update but my Mac is not good with memory so when I have a new install version it will probably crash my Mac. How might I stop automatic installation by Firefox?

Where is the OPTION TO TERMINATE Nightly from constantly asking to install updates? Right now there are 2 options: 1) let it update without permission, or 2) request permission. Who can get anything done with constantly asking to update when it is not appropriate to auto-update?