Frustration, cussing and swearing and nearly throwing the computer across the room....

IME it doesn't. Normally firfox pops up a "toast" saying that it needs to restart for an update, however the dialogue is not modal, and you opt to just close it (or ignore it). It does the update on the next startup.

I suppose that it is possible that among the other windows popping up was such a prompt and without realising I may have responded to it.

Several times a week recently although this may relate to my W7pro machine.

Nine years on from acquisition as a re-furbished desk top, I had my first worrying moment when the *pointer* froze. Mindful of threads about mouse failures, I sought help from a neighbour. While I waited I realised how little I know of keyboard shortcuts which might have localised the issue.

It is possible to disable FF automatic updates. Google it.

Mine is set to: Tools>settings>general>Firefox Updates>allow Firefox to >check for updates but let you to choose to install them.

It lets me know when an update is available, and I update at my convenience.

I have also disabled Windows Updates and Removed Defender on Win11.

Some of those updates are to fix security holes that someone has found.

Andy

Firefox has IT controls.

In a corporate setting, you have better control over it.

In a Google search, look for "policies.json" and "disableappupdate". Even home users can use this.

{ "policies": { "DisableAppUpdate": true } }

Then, in some Preferences dialog, you might see "Controlled by your Administrator", as an indication a policies.json is being used.

When you install a brand new Firefox, you:

The reason for this procedure, is to prevent Firefox from sneaking an update into the buffer, before you've beaten it into submission. You cannot allow it to have even a tiny whiff of the Internet, until it is configured properly.

With the policies file in place, you can still ask Firefox to upgrade itself. But then it is under your control.

Paul

I just get a dialogue box asking if I want to download the update or dismiss buttons. I download the update but it doesn't get installed until I quite firefox. This is on an iMac .

Well, when I get this it says do you wish to resume the last session. Also, my Firefox is set to ask, and if you ignore it it will only do its update when it is restarted. You must have altered some parameters to get it to interrupt you this way, unless its a new 'feature' I've not seen!

Brian

I don't expect computers to work properly

Jim, how's tricks?

I am having a resurgence of interest in ham radio at the moment and trying to work out how best to adapt a CBer's Silver Rod vertical antenna to ham radio service, perhaps as an end fed full wave on 50MHz / 6m

As to computers, 52 years ago, using a PDP11/20, I'd load in my paper tape program and the computer would be doing nothing else and I was in full control, especially using the very low level interface of the Blinkenlights.

Now, with W11, there are 100 or so other processes and programs running in the background which are of no interest to me and only serve to slow down the system. Just what do they all do?

I want a computer that is in MY control.

don't use Window$

good get back on.....

fat chance....tee hee

No fool like an old fool then

$ ps aufx | wc -l

(That's the count of processes running on my Linux right now)

I don't know what most of them do.

Andy

$ ps aufx | wc -l

And I know what most of them do.