topic Impossible to prevent &quot;gotcha&quot; forced restarts? in Discussions https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/impossible-to-prevent-quot-gotcha-quot-forced-restarts/m-p/136210#M55025 <P>I feel like this shouldn't happen:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Fedtsten_0-1787844975996.png"><img src="https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15566iE499AA08B4986F36/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" alt="Fedtsten_0-1787844975996.png" title="Fedtsten_0-1787844975996.png" /></span></P><P>I'm being offered to accept downloading an update - AND being forced to restart Firefox!</P><P>I had specifically changed the setting to ask me for permission before downloading, precisely because I absolutely detest being forced to restart the browser when it's inconvenient (and at work, it almost always is for me).</P><P>Yet it still forces me - before I ever accepted the download???</P><P>Please make it make sense. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> Am I missing something obvious here, or is this a bug?</P> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:39:36 GMT Fedtsten 2026-08-27T15:39:36Z Impossible to prevent "gotcha" forced restarts? https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/impossible-to-prevent-quot-gotcha-quot-forced-restarts/m-p/136210#M55025 <P>I feel like this shouldn't happen:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Fedtsten_0-1787844975996.png"><img src="https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15566iE499AA08B4986F36/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" alt="Fedtsten_0-1787844975996.png" title="Fedtsten_0-1787844975996.png" /></span></P><P>I'm being offered to accept downloading an update - AND being forced to restart Firefox!</P><P>I had specifically changed the setting to ask me for permission before downloading, precisely because I absolutely detest being forced to restart the browser when it's inconvenient (and at work, it almost always is for me).</P><P>Yet it still forces me - before I ever accepted the download???</P><P>Please make it make sense. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> Am I missing something obvious here, or is this a bug?</P> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:39:36 GMT https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/impossible-to-prevent-quot-gotcha-quot-forced-restarts/m-p/136210#M55025 Fedtsten 2026-08-27T15:39:36Z