Would you prefer:

“Firefox Updater

This app is preventing shutdown”

The better approach would be to prepare the update in the background and swap out the version on the next start

Go to options. Scroll halfway down the page. Firefox gives you the choice to change updates from automatic to whenever you want.

https://i.imgur.com/NxpbIH4.png

I disagree. Software not terminating immediately is grounds for uninstallation. It should update silently while it runs.

Ubuntu has an even better approach. It updates silently while you are using it. Then your tab crashes. And when you retry it tells you to restart firefox. Truly genius *cheffs kiss

You guys close your browser? Weird

I'm not really hankering for that 4 seconds it takes to restart.

You've not used it on linux I guess. Update at some random point in time while you use it. Now I understand why it does it, but it's just horrible terrible unforgivable.

I don't think I've ever noticed Firefox updating. The only sign I get that it updates is that when it does a special tab opens telling me about the new features.

This is what I hate on school computers, and it drives people away from Firefox.
You don't have admin privilege, you can't update, so don't even try.
I always disable auto-updates on those.

Just use a a package manager

Applications updating themselves... must be a Windows thing. Didn't they want to copy package management from Linux? Maybe AI can help.

I see it like thank you that i don't have to go to Mozilla website and download the installer. So much time saved, and it only takes like 5 second without manually doing anything. On Linux i saw please restart Firefox tab and clicked it. No problem. I got the update fast.

Went not just disable automatic updates? Update when you have time for it.

My issue with FF's auto update is that the behavior is how painfully the auto-update works with multiple profiles.

I'll have one window (well three) open for some (measurable in days) time.

1. FF updates silently, I haven't restarted my browser so I haven't noticed.
2. I go to open a session in the second (or third profiles)
3. FF decides now is a great time to apply the update, after all it just opened right?
4. All the existing open browsing sessions in the other profiles get bricked. The tabs just stop responding, no browsing works, just dead in the water.

I have to shut it (all?) down to get it working again.

I don't know how Chrome handles this so I cannot compare. TBH still worth using FF over that adware!