Every time I do general Mac app upadating, the next day Firefox asks to be updated again. Sily, unnecessary and irritating. Less is more
Every time I do general Mac app upadating, the next day Firefox asks to be updated again. Sily, unnecessary and irritating. Less is more. How can I set up to have a system that all the updates (excpet the security ones) can be done only once in two years, all in one go, and would not be bothered by nudges, unless there are serious security issues?
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Thanks for the suggestion - from now on I'm a Safari fun!
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Firefox is advancing so exponentially at the moment, you would miss out on all the new GPU tech rendering coming, not to mention creating a very bad security risk for something constantly running on your comp.
If you don't like the message then just goto your Preferences and switch it to automatic/don't ask.
Is Firefox updating, or just reloading the current version?
Firefox simply asks to be updated again a day after it was updated.
Regarding the "missing out". If "missing out" is defined as "I don't have something that is out there", then sure I'm missing out. But does this thing out there necessarily improve my quality of life? Automoatic updates are mostly fine, but what about the rescent Skype update? May be an extreme example, but not the only one. Does everybody have to be a beta tester?
It's not even the beta, I'm currently on the beta and nightly that's updated well every night haha. With the amount of tracking/spying/identity breaches, plus on top of that a browser and all the plugins are being rebuilt, this is almost unavoidable, to prevent loosing every single plugin for about a month if it all came in one shot.... It's not out of the ordinary either, Chrome and Opera are updating left and right as well. I guess the only browser that doesn't is Safari.
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Thanks for the suggestion - from now on I'm a Safari fun!
Yah it's a great browser that is defiantly unmatched at power savings and is/was the same Engine Chromium based their browser on. The major downside is very poor addon/extension support and goes too long without updates (but for you that's plus haha). I'd like to see how mad you get at an android phone that updates over 10 apps per day at ~20MB each :D
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You can also look at the Firefox 52.3.0 ESR version. This version only updates when Firefox switches to the next major version (e.g. 55 to 56). That is still every 6 weeks though, but that is a small minor update.
Firefox 52.3.0 ESR:
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.3.0/releasenotes/
Note that users on a no longer supported operating systems are usually automatically moved to a suitable ESR version (45 or 52).