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John W replied
John W
John W

I have been with Firefox for over 20 years. The main reason is that it has always performed exactly the way I wanted it to. Just now I got a notification in windows that "Firefox is now configured to startup when you log in" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING??? This is EXACTLY why I have used Firefox for so many years BECAUSE IT DID NOT RUN IN THE BACKGROUND CONSTANTLY!!!!! When I close something I want it OFF completely. I use a key manager and sign in and out as I need to and the LAST thing I want from a browser is it constantly running. I am an IT and systems manager and my primary reason for owning a PC is audio and video production. Background services cause issues with high performance real time audio systems which is exactly why I run windows server 2022 on all my workstations. This is also one of the biggest issues with Windows 11. Edge is one of the first things that I remove from an operating system for that same exact reason, and is also the reason I dumped Chrome nearly 2 decades ago. The recent changes I have been seeing with Firefox have been tolerable but this breaks that. I surely hope that is not the future or I will be searching for a new browser to use, even if it has to be a portable. I just want to know WHY?

I have been with Firefox for over 20 years. The main reason is that it has always performed exactly the way I wanted it to. Just now I got a notification in windows that "Firefox is now configured to startup when you log in" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING??? This is EXACTLY why I have used Firefox for so many years BECAUSE IT DID NOT RUN IN THE BACKGROUND CONSTANTLY!!!!! When I close something I want it OFF completely. I use a key manager and sign in and out as I need to and the LAST thing I want from a browser is it constantly running. I am an IT and systems manager and my primary reason for owning a PC is audio and video production. Background services cause issues with high performance real time audio systems which is exactly why I run windows server 2022 on all my workstations. This is also one of the biggest issues with Windows 11. Edge is one of the first things that I remove from an operating system for that same exact reason, and is also the reason I dumped Chrome nearly 2 decades ago. The recent changes I have been seeing with Firefox have been tolerable but this breaks that. I surely hope that is not the future or I will be searching for a new browser to use, even if it has to be a portable. I just want to know WHY?

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Mark
Mark

https://support.microsoft.com/windows/experience/startup-boot/configure-startup-applications-in-windows#configure-startup-applications-from-task-manager

Can you go to Task Manager -> Startup apps -> select Firefox -> Disable?

John W
John W Mwenye swali

First of all that won't show up there, but if you use Microsoft Sysinternals Autoruns that will easily stop it but that's completely missing the point. For YEARS Firefox has fought against this kind of behavior. Why the sudden change? Staying signed into web browsers may be convenient but it also makes you a target for marketing and privacy/hacker issues and robs your pc of power you could use elsewhere. For the best security and better pc operation the best choice is to only log into something when you use it and then sign out and that's been an indisputable fact for 2 decades. Marketing wants to keep you logged in to everything all the time so they can see and hear everything you do so why the sudden policy change? That's the scary part of this, now Firefox is caving in to marketing and telemetry? Then I'm done with it. This breaks every reason I have had for sticking with them for 20 years. I can kill the startup and I can remove every browser and use a portable so that's not the point. This is a reversal of everything Firefox has stood for. THAT is the problem. it's not WHAT the browser is doing, it's WHY!!

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