Hi I'm back with a Mozilla-Aware Update Script for Linux users (I posted it here a couple weeks ago, but I guess this platform doesn't like it when you paste code or use certain words). It doesn't do anything that half-intelligent pre- and post-insta...
Here's an idea: what if FF, when it does a background update, installs it in a "staging" location, say on Linux /usr/lib64/.firefox-staging/ or something along those lines (my original thought was to use a filesystem overlay but that's probably not a...
Digging around in the Firefox files on Linux, there is a file at /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja which has a function "sendToRestartRequiredPage" (for 121.0.1 it's at line 63486). I've modified the function to return immediately rather than hijack...
So on Linux at least, I found the file /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja. It's a partially binary file (a "Mozilla archive" according to file-extensions.org). There is another omni.ja in the parent directory that isn't relevant, just a heads-up. For...
I'm aware of how bug trackers work, Agent. The issue is that the devs either don't care or are being told to defend and preserve this NIH'ed update scheme in the face of all the anger and frustration. I'm guessing nepotism, since usually Mozilla can ...
