Jesus Christ, another update ! ! !

[StevieB]

For god’s sake, give us the option of turning off automatic updates like we had before.

Right now it feels as though the every few days I open FF there is an update I must get.

I had one yesterday, I have just had another one today.

Last week I had two as well.

STOP this now, or I guarantee you will lose people because this is pissing people off, there have been multiple posts about this and yet you seem to be ignoring them.

Put back the option of turning OFF updates and let us do it when we want. And yes, we know the risks.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Of course, this is not the expected answer, nevertheless

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-background-updates/m-p/127414/highlight/true#M505...
Since the release of Firefox 63 https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/63.0/releasenotes
The option to Never check for updates was removed from about:preferences. You can use the DisableAppUpdate enterprise policy as a substitute. I choose my favorable moment to perform the updates. I use, DisableAppUpdate

If you want to study Enterprise Policy Generator
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enterprise-policy-generator

For information
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/enterprise-policy-generator-an-open-source-browser-based/...

[StevieB]

I appreciate the attempt at helping, but, I have neither the wish nor desire to start learning to code.

The list of links and different things you showed may be of use to some, but, I would suggest that most of us would much rather just have an option as we did before to check for updates when WE want to.

Just give us the button / switch back so we can do this ourselves.

[david-rubino]

There's an option to check for updates, but not install them until you choose. Does this meet your needs? 

I really want to understand the frustration people have and come up with mitigations, because you're right... we get a lot of feedback about this. What's not going to change is how often Firefox is actually releasing updates. But whatever we can do to make the update experience less annoying can be on the table. FWIW, I own this area now, but I wasn't working at Mozilla when the last round of decisions was made... so consider me a fresh audience who hasn't formed an opinion. 

[StevieB]

@coconutcrab1234  You have pretty much addressed everything I was going to say. And also frequently when looking at any YT videos when I close the page I sometimes still hear the video playing for a second or two.

@david-rubino   Thank you for jumping in here. Can't weve the button back where updates can be set to "Manualy Check" this way we can do it on our time, not each time we start FF, at least thats how it feels sometimes.

[coconutcrab1234]

Hey David, thanks for engaging. I'm happy to try and help you understand the frustrations that I have with updates. They're simple, and fall into two categories:

1. When I sit down at the computer to do work, I just want to launch straight in and start doing my work uninterrupted. Being forced to wait while FF updates is an absolute productivity killer. I start doing no-work things while I wait, then it's hard to get back into the flow. Worse is when the mandatory update happens 5 minutes after I start, when I'm on a roll and then have to stop. Can't you develop a way of setting updates to install during the computer shutdown/power-up process, so that when users actually want to use the browser we can?

2. The god-damned pop-ups and prompts that come after an update. No I don't want another tour of FF to see what's changed. No I don't want giant pop-ups telling me that unspecified bugs have been resolved. No I don't want little call-out balloons appearing in my browers at random times trying to point something out. Like, I appreciate that work was done, but I don't care about the minutiae, I just want to get on with using FF. Google Gemini gave me directions about how to edit the config coding to block these tours and pop-ups, which I'm sure you won't condone, but the last fortnight has been positively blissful.

TLDR: the streamlined simplicity of FF is why I use it. The less streamline and more intrusive FF is becoming, the greater my dissatisfaction. This applies to all aspects of the browser, including updates.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

For illustration DisableAppUpdate
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-background-updates/m-p/130348/highlight/true#M521...

For illustration DisableAppUpdate
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/forced-restart/m-p/48813/highlight/true#M17511

For illustration DisableAppUpdate
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1588944#answer-1827960
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/upgrade-notification-spam/m-p/115143/highlight/true#M4492...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgqS10N1Xc
At one point in the video, a black screen appears, and that's normal, that's my strategy, the time it takes to answer Yes in the "User Account Control" (UAC) dialog box.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Other issues https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1589626