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Almost every time I launch Firefox, I'm interrupted by another update. Instead of getting straight to work, I have to deal with update downloads, installation prompts, or restart requests.

There is no reasonable way to disable this behavior. Even selecting "Check for updates, but let you choose to install them" doesn't help, because Firefox still interrupts me with update notifications.

Why can't users simply check for and install updates manually, without constant interruptions?

For a browser with such a small market share, Firefox is remarkably aggressive about imposing this intrusive UX on its users.

Please provide an option to completely disable automatic update checks and notifications. Let users decide when to update their own software.

Not a question just feedback but the new UI you made for the browser in the new update looks really bad and really sucks I don't know why or what anyone was thinking designing it. The blocky styles were fine before not gonna lie. :/

Can you just please stop to force user to restart when there's an update? its annoying really, i've been using firefox for years, and this thing makes me want to leave firefox. At least make this message optional, let user continue browser at will and apply the update when the user finished using firefox. ps. my setting: Automatically install update ON -> When Firefox is not running (ticked/ON).

About an hour ago Firefox auto updated to the latest and greatest version. It has ruined my online experience. It takes 5-10 or more seconds for a website to respond to my requests to do anything. Is there a quick way to go back to the previous version or do I need to uninstall the current version and then reinstall the previous version?

Hello, I'm pretty tired of Firefox updating itself without asking me or warning me, just telling me that it's going to force me to restart and kill all of my private windows without any chance of continuing browsing. I'd like to disable updates but it seems that they are forced upon the user regardless of choice. Is there a way to prevent them from happening? I managed to disable them on Linux by some miracle but can't find a way to do the same on Mac. I'd also like to remove the little popup that suggests updates every time I open it. No chance of that either? The browser is made for browsing and not for serving the needs of the browser. I really love what Firefox used to be but at this point I might as well switch to something else. The blatant disregard for user experience is what's killing me.

It would be greatly appreciated if the browser didn't update with adding a new default customization. If there's a way to revert back to the old browser, I would prefer that over the extra customization any day.

Getting too many Fire Fox pop-up messages to update and restart.

Any way to prevent so many, or do updates once a month, or turn it off?

Cannot do my work on laptop when important tabs are open and get the annoying pop up to update sometimes 3 times a week

Sometimes restart does not bring back all tabs, or where sites and paragraphs you were reading

And seems if you do not update, they corrupt your computer functioning