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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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