Re: VDQ : Ffx updates

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On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:01:07 -0700
stan <upaitag@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 05:04:04 +1030
> Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Tim:  
> > >> And I can confirm the same thing on my PC using Fedora 36 (which
> > >> is usually kept up to date every other day or so).    
> > 
> > Beartooth:  
> > >         So it isn't me. That's some slight consolation. But how do
> > > I know what repo it's getting all these mandatory instant updates
> > > from?    
> > 
> > Are you sure it's Firefox, itself, that's updating?  
> 
> This.  If firefox is coming from the fedora package, and you just
> updated, then there should be no updates to firefox, as it will be
> fully up to date.  If there is some kind of churn, it must be
> something else.
> 
> It is good practice to shut down firefox before updating, and restart
> it after the updates are done.  That way, if a library it depends on
> has changed, it will get the new version.  Weird things can happen if
> you run a program that was started with an older version of a library,
> if you run it with a newer version, and it has changed.  Not always
> crashes.  Gnome has mandated shutdown after update (reboot) to be sure
> that this problem doesn't occur.  I just update from a console with
> some programs closed, and haven't had any issues, but they have a
> valid point.
> 
> Try creating a new user, and running a generic firefox after an
> update. That is, without any addons or customization.  Does it still
> have the same behavior?

Before you go to the trouble of creating a new user (see man useradd),
you could try starting in safe mode.
/usr/bin/firefox -safe-mode
in a terminal.

There are more suggestions here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode
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