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Unattended-upgrades. Set it and forget it.
sure, then already open programs will start malfunctining left and right, because they assume they have x version of files and libraries on a path, but in the meantime it has been replaced with version y. firefox and thunderbird are especially sensitive to it, but are not the only one.
unattended upgrades work fine on a server with relatively simple programs, but on the desktop world things are different.
Firefox hasn't broken like that for me in years, it tells me it needs to restart because it was upgraded in the background and restores the session perfectly, usually
it tells you on a new tab. if you continue without restarting it you'll see its already falling apart