• grue@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

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

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      10 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

        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.

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          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.

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      10 months ago

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