A small update UX fix could make Firefox much easier to love

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Dear Firefox Development Team,

Please consider improving the Firefox update experience.

Currently, Firefox sometimes shows an update dialog immediately when the user opens the browser. This can be frustrating because users usually open the browser because they need to do something right away.

It would be much better if Firefox could update quietly in the background, or at least wait until after the browser has fully launched before showing any update prompt. Google Chrome is a good example of a smoother update process that does not interrupt users as much.

If Firefox can make updates feel less disruptive, I believe more people would enjoy using it and may be more likely to keep using it.

Thank you for your work on Firefox.

[david-rubino]

Hi  ... can you tell me what operating system you're using (Win10, Win11, macOS, some flavor of Linux)? That will help me discuss this better.

On Windows at least, we do update in the background and install on-launch next launch. But if you turn this off, an update is available while Firefox is running, or if you're on macOS or a version of Linux where updates are handled by Firefox, you can see some prompts. I need to look into the logic of when we show them. Could well be that we show them too quickly after launch and are needlessly annoying. 

[tv]

I'm using Windows 11 and yes, it's progress bar looks like this (image from internet)

So, Firefox already have option to disable this ? Please tell me how.

TV

[david-rubino]

This should not happen very often... it means something went wrong with a step in the update called "staging". Are you seeing it every time you update?