But they have been on a road of adding increasinly user hostile "features" to the browser that I just can't take.
I snapped when they implemented automatic updates. I've never been so pissed at a piece of software than I have been at firefox when I hit Ctrl-T and the damn thing refuses to work until I restart it. And for a long time, it wouldn't even restart, it just exited.
While I'd prefer to install updates manually through apt (like every other piece of software on my laptop), if they are going to be so patronizing that they won't allow that, they need to fix they update process to not require a restart. Until that happens I'll use chromium.
Firefox has always had automatic updates but only on systems that don't manage the software updates via centralized package manager. E.g. any chance you're an Ubuntu user? They just switched it over to being a snap package instead of an apt package with 21.10.
Regardless if you open settings UI there is a radiobox to toggle between auto-installing updates and just notifying you when your version is out of date. If that's not there then it's your distro's build that is forcing updates to be done that way, not Mozilla.
But they have been on a road of adding increasinly user hostile "features" to the browser that I just can't take.
I snapped when they implemented automatic updates. I've never been so pissed at a piece of software than I have been at firefox when I hit Ctrl-T and the damn thing refuses to work until I restart it. And for a long time, it wouldn't even restart, it just exited.
While I'd prefer to install updates manually through apt (like every other piece of software on my laptop), if they are going to be so patronizing that they won't allow that, they need to fix they update process to not require a restart. Until that happens I'll use chromium.