that forced restart is probably going to be a huge win for our rolling release brothers and sisters.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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I believe, Firefox bugfix releases get rolled out pretty quickly on most non-rolling distros, too, so I don't think it's a terribly different experience, unless you're on a distro with Firefox ESR, like e.g. Debian.
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Why? I already reboot daily because everything gets updated so much. (I'm into that)
When you get into servers, uptime becomes your drug
Firefox on a server?
I think some servers have an actual DE and all. If I remember correctly, I've seen centos with gnome.
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WHAT???? ALL OF THOSE FEATURES HAVE BEEN IN NIGHTLY FOR A MONTH AND I STILL ALWAYS RESTART IT OUT OF HABIT! IT'S LITERALLY PART OF MY ROUTINE AND NOW YOU TELL ME IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE ANYMORE?
Watch out, we got a badass over here. Running a nightly build and not reading the patch notes, so brave.
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Getting rid of that forced restart will at least help me personally stay more secure and get bug fixes faster
lol I was so confused by Firefox not needing to restart that I tried running update again and then closed it myself because I thought something went wrong
How was memory use actually reduced? I read several articles on this, but I didnβt see anyone talking about how they achieved this.
Fork server - eliminates the need to restart and reduces memory per new process
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Charlie's still using that gamer version of Opera though. With the fake key stroke sounds enabled.
Charlie is a simple creature.
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Oh thank god. I've been getting crushed by memory sucking tabs.
My experience with childhood computers conditioned me to close everything instantly when Iβm done with it even if it means I might have to reload the page later.
Laughs in automatic tab suspender
I can tell, almost double the tabs and still no system crash ! I think it's just discard tabs more aggressively but still, that's better than crashing
I swear to God, if I ever have to restart my Firefox again because snap without asking updated Firefox again in secret, I'm going to fucking lose it....
You're going to lose Snap? That is an option, you know.
Yeah, did that already on my office computer, still gotta do that at home. However, just to ensure they'd screw over the users, they made sure that upon installing Firefox, snap would be installed again unless i sacrifice a goat.
I so wish Ubuntu would just fuck off with snap, its awful
Yup. Even if you add the official mozilla repos, Cannoical adds a prefix to their version so it always takes precedence over the official release. You have to pin the mozilla repo to blacklist the snapped version.
Same goes for Thunderbird.
I'm sure Snap has some security advantages for many users but they've made it so user-hostile for those who use native browser extensions or who want to automate deployments with just one packaging system.
Anyway, rant over - fuck Snap.
use flatpaks instead. snaps infamously suck.
Oh I know.
My Ubuntu installations have as step 1: install Ubuntu, step 2: remove snap
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Good to know that I am not the only one mistaking Cr1TiKaL aka MoistCr1TiKaL aka penguinz0 aka Charles Christopher White Jr. as Asmongold aka Zack Hoyt (the rightwing influencer).
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... i was supposed to be restarting after updating Firefox???
Just restarting Firefox, not the entire system.
Which doesn't really matter for 99.99% of users that are sane and only use a couple windows and tabs at a time. Saving things they aren't actively using anymore as bookmarks and using the browsing history for anything they closed previously but need again.
For the 0.01% of insane but vocal users that never close tabs and/or keep dozens of windows open, that's a big deal.
ah, then yeah I just have "restore previous tabs" selected and restart the app, no biggie
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But also for normal users it's annoying as if you're in the middle of something like filling out a form, clicking onto the next page will tell you you need to restart your browser, and you lose your progress. So yeah, I'm happy about this change.
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Oh, that is good news. Hurray!
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