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Agree, and not just that, it allows to escape the hijack of your right click (something google does not tolerate), but they also degraded a lot the experience t

by cm2187 15d ago

Agree, and not just that, it allows to escape the hijack of your right click (something google does not tolerate), but they also degraded a lot the experience the last year or two. Number of modal dialog boxes every time it updates (and of course repeat for how many machines you use), also every time there is a pending update, the performance seems to degrade until you close and update, and those updates are very frequent. I don't know if it is my machine but it seems to be struggling when there is more than 2 or 3 video streams on different tabs (increasingly common now that every news websites seems compelled to live stream video on their front page whether you want it or not).

notafox 15d ago
You may restrict updates in policies.json[1][2]: { "policies": { "AppUpdateURL": "http://127.0.0.1/", "DisableAppUpdate": true, "DisableFirefoxStudies": true, "DisableSystemAddonUpdate": true, "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true, "ExtensionUpdate": false, } } Syntax should be slightly different for Windows. File should be located in $FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION_DIR/distribution/ $FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION_DIR is the installation directory for firefox, which (for default setup) probably will be printed by this: sed -nE 's/^\s*exec (.*\/)firefox .*/\1/p' $(which firefox) # and it's probably /usr/lib/firefox When you decide to update you may temporarily replace policy for permissive one, or you may just install new version in a separate $FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION_DIR. [1] https://firefox-admin-docs.mozilla.org/guides/policies-configuration/ https://firefox-admin-docs.mozilla.org/guides/policies-confi... [2] https://firefox-admin-docs.mozilla.org/reference/policies/ https://firefox-admin-docs.mozilla.org/reference/policies/
- gblargg 15d ago
  Even better, I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues. Otherwise the browser has a stable feature set and no new features.
fleebee 15d ago
I got very annoyed by the pending update pop-ups and the "Restart to keep using Firefox" messages when I opened new tabs, so I switched over to Librewolf and now I get no distracting modals at all and can update it precisely when I feel like it.
- Izkata 14d ago
  Those tabs telling you to restart are because the OS upgraded Firefox in the background and Firefox detected that its files changed under it. It tells you to restart so you don't get buggy broken behavior if anything was incompatible between the two versions. Firefox's built-in update system waits for a natural browser restart so it doesn't do that.

by cm2187 15d ago

notafox 15d ago

You may restrict updates in policies.json[1][2]: { "policies": { "AppUpdateURL": "http://127.0.0.1/", "DisableAppUpdate": true, "DisableFirefoxStudies": true, "DisableSystemAddonUpdate": true, "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true, "ExtensionUpdate": false, } } Syntax should be slightly different for Windows. File should be located in $FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION_DIR/distribution/ $FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION_DIR is the installation directory for firefox, which (for default setup) probably will be printed by this: sed -nE 's/^\s*exec (.*\/)firefox .*/\1/p' $(which firefox) # and it's probably /usr/lib/firefox When you decide to update you may temporarily replace policy for permissive one, or you may just install new version in a separate $FIREFOX_DISTRIBUTION_DIR. [1] https://firefox-admin-docs.mozilla.org/guides/policies-configuration/ https://firefox-admin-docs.mozilla.org/guides/policies-confi... [2] https://firefox-admin-docs.mozilla.org/reference/policies/ https://firefox-admin-docs.mozilla.org/reference/policies/

gblargg 15d ago
Even better, I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues. Otherwise the browser has a stable feature set and no new features.

fleebee 15d ago

I got very annoyed by the pending update pop-ups and the "Restart to keep using Firefox" messages when I opened new tabs, so I switched over to Librewolf and now I get no distracting modals at all and can update it precisely when I feel like it.

Izkata 14d ago
Those tabs telling you to restart are because the OS upgraded Firefox in the background and Firefox detected that its files changed under it. It tells you to restart so you don't get buggy broken behavior if anything was incompatible between the two versions. Firefox's built-in update system waits for a natural browser restart so it doesn't do that.