this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2024
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm curious as to why Firefox is checking for updates, have you configured it to do so? I've never seen Firefox do that (and it feels weird to have a program sidestep the update mechanism of the package manager)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Firefox auto updates itself by default I've found

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That has a background update service. It'll only immediately kick you out for serious security updates. Unless you f'ed with the configuration.