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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by mrighele on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:51PM (#27348977)
> No, I don't want to update my computer right now, and no, updating overnight tonight isn't good either because I need to keep this program running until tomorrow. I understand that your new UX is better for me, and I'm sure I'll love it, but forcing that on me right now is preventing me from doing what I need to do.

I especially love when Firefox decides that he really needs to update, and I cannot open any new tab until I do so. Who cares if I am on a crappy connection and the download that I need to finish will take 20 minutes more; it's either restart it or wait until I finish. And that other thing in that tab that I need time to finish but I cannot really save ? Who cares.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by ripdog on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:30PM (#27349233)
That Firefox issue only happens on Linux when you upgrade Firefox on disk using your package manager while Firefox is running. The ABI mismatch between the running version and the new version makes starting new Firefox processes unstable, so it's disabled to avoid crashes.

Simply don't run system updates during a Firefox session and you're golden.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by kaba0 on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:38PM (#27349292)
Yeah, it’s a linux distro issue. Alternatively, run NixOS that instead of swapping the running executable file under itself will create a new environment with a new firefox and start that one next time.
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