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    [–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    It's fucked-up that Firefox even checks for updates itself (instead of letting the package manager do it) in the first place. It wouldn't have the bug if it didn't have the unnecessary functionality.

    [–] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 months ago

    Just invent a physical package manager where you get all your software packages in the mail every week :D

    [–] johnassel@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Interesting. On which distro? I don't have this problem on Fedora. Here the update check is disabled by default.

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    In context, my comment was really more about dunking on Windows for not having proper package management. Firefox only "needs" that feature because it's working around Windows' deficiencies.

    [–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 3 points 10 months ago

    I'm pretty sure it's disabled on the M$ Store version.

    Also, on macOS it's so annoying that literally every app checks for (and even wants to install) updates while I have the Brew package manager installed.

    [–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago

    You can disable it, but yeah... You shouldn't have to if it's being handled by the package manager

    [–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Any chance this could be disabled? I'm realizing I may run into this problem quite a bit

    [–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, probably easiest & best to uninstall and reinstall with a package manager. Anything that manages updates will likely have Firefox configured to not check for updates

    If you are a GUI kind of guy try your OS's app store.

    Otherwise apt, yum, homebrew or winget should do the trick :)

    Heres an informative forum post about it: https://superuser.com/questions/1370165/disable-or-control-upgrading-of-firefox

    [–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

    I thought the problem was that they WEREN'T configured to not check for updates. Will look into this