When was this? I just had to restart about a week ago
I had to restart today.
It’s in the just released version 141
… i was supposed to be restarting after updating Firefox???
Just restarting Firefox, not the entire system.
Which doesn’t really matter for 99.99% of users that are sane and only use a couple windows and tabs at a time. Saving things they aren’t actively using anymore as bookmarks and using the browsing history for anything they closed previously but need again.
For the 0.01% of insane but vocal users that never close tabs and/or keep dozens of windows open, that’s a big deal.
call me out why don’t ya?
I do this, but now I have 10k+ bookmarks, fairly organized, but the bookmark manager is trash. It is slow and getting slower. Also, searching history feels like '90’s web search: hopeless if you don’t remember exact keywords.
But also for normal users it’s annoying as if you’re in the middle of something like filling out a form, clicking onto the next page will tell you you need to restart your browser, and you lose your progress. So yeah, I’m happy about this change.
That was such infuriating UX.
ah, then yeah I just have “restore previous tabs” selected and restart the app, no biggie
That used to fail pretty frequently for me. It wasn’t the worst bug, but it was pretty annoying.
Private windows are not restored.
Yeah that’s what those of us that are sane experience, but that only works for the last window closed.
usually the “restart to update” closes all windows at once, then opens them all again.
I swear to God, if I ever have to restart my Firefox again because snap without asking updated Firefox again in secret, I’m going to fucking lose it…
You’re going to lose Snap? That is an option, you know.
Yeah, did that already on my office computer, still gotta do that at home. However, just to ensure they’d screw over the users, they made sure that upon installing Firefox, snap would be installed again unless i sacrifice a goat.
I so wish Ubuntu would just fuck off with snap, its awful
Losing snap is an upgrade.
It legitimately is. I saved 14 seconds on my boot time by removing snap. That may not sound like much but when you are just looking at a black screen for 14 seconds after getting past grub, it seems a world of difference.
use flatpaks instead? snaps infamously suck.
Oh I know.
My Ubuntu installations have as step 1: install Ubuntu, step 2: remove snap
Try Fedora bro trust me bro
Been on Fedora in and off since before it existed, bro. Not a fan, bro
just curiosity, what didn’t you like about it?
Good question
Honest not sure anymore, I think I’m very used to Ubuntu (more to the point; Debian) mad whenever I’m on, say reshare or cents servers (which basically is Fedora minus the GUI) and I get terribly annoyed with how things are structured.
As a single example: In Debian, config files are split into (typically) subject groups, making it really easy to work with. Fedora doesn’t have this and it’s annoying.
How was memory use actually reduced? I read several articles on this, but I didn’t see anyone talking about how they achieved this.
Maybe a missed free() they’re too embarrassed to document.
Fork server - eliminates the need to restart and reduces memory per new process
Awesome! Thanks.
Removed by mod
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I don’t understand why people are still using Firefox.
Cause atleast it’s not chrome
I also don’t understand why people are not using Firefox.
Because it’s like the US. Well-known, but when stacked up against other browsers, not really good at anything, pretty shit at a lot of things, and certainly more old in the way it goes about doing it all. Then there’s Mozilla’s behaviour which is like a drunken parent at times.
But in many people’s minds there is only Chrome and Firefox, and they see all the cool kids hate Chrome, therefore Firefox is the best.
Me neither. Looks like self-inflicted pain.
Sarcasm?
Great and all, but until it can play full screen video on my Pi5 I’m going to keep using Brave.
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I miss the days when it was normal to just shut down the pc when you were done with it. Leaving things on all of the time isn’t healthy.
I leave my work machine on constantly, but am very careful and shut down my home machine when I go to bed.
It just feels wrong to leave it powered up.
When I finish what I want to do on my PC, I type “yay” enjoy text and pacmans going left to right, press enter some times, and type sudo pw some times.
After that I reboot to check, that I am not stuck in TTY and turn off afterFully disagree. Just leave it on, restart it once every 7-10 days if you’re using windows. Linus, reboot when it asks, could be months.
It’s healthier for the hardware to just leave it running then turning it off and on all the time.
We ain’t in the days of mechanical moving parts anymore. Idle time is way less of a problem then power ons.
I’m talking about my health, not the machine’s health.
you are replaceable, the machine is not
Lol
Praise the Omnissiah!
Fans and pumps don’t have any moving parts any longer?
Ramping up or down degrades your fans and pumps faster than keeping them at a low constant RPM, so yes, idle beats shutting down.
Ideally they’d be set to not be running unless they’re actively needed.
I always turn computer off when done, it never sleeps or hibernates, no need since I’m either using it or not, through been leaving it on 24/7 at moment due to wiping some hard drives which takes time, so it’s working which is fine 😬
Good to know that I am not the only one mistaking Cr1TiKaL aka MoistCr1TiKaL aka penguinz0 aka Charles Christopher White Jr. as Asmongold aka Zack Hoyt (the rightwing influencer).
the guy in the picture isnt the cockroach king?
to be fair, i thought asmongold and penguinz0 were the same person, and that cr1tikal was a seperate, equally shit-headed person. My poor brain-- so the “woo lets go baby” guy is a decent dude? and its the other guy that has a rat corpse alarm clock? or am i still confused?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr1TiKaL = woo lets go baby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmongold = rat alarm clock
There are pictures. Not of the rat.
Why would you use an image of that gross motherfucker to represent something good happening
Are you confusing this guy with Asmongold?
I was. I should have noticed the lack of black mold in the background. Who is it?
MoistCr1TiKaL I believe, aka penguinz0, aka Charlie. Don’t know much about him but he seems like a nice enough bloke.
Could you explain, I don’t know anything about Moist Critical. I’m just using the ‘Woo Yeah Baby! That’s What I’ve Been Waiting For’ meme.
Why do you think he’s gross? He’s like legit one of the nicest people.
he probably thinks it’s Asmongold or something.
Not knowing much about the scene, this is who I thought that was as well
Isn’t that guy a racist?
source?
No
Thats asmongold
Oh, that is good news. Hurray!
WHAT??? ALL OF THOSE FEATURES HAVE BEEN IN NIGHTLY FOR A MONTH AND I STILL ALWAYS RESTART IT OUT OF HABIT! IT’S LITERALLY PART OF MY ROUTINE AND NOW YOU TELL ME IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE ANYMORE?
AND ADD THE OPTION TO REPLACE SPACEBAR HEATING!
Watch out, we got a badass over here. Running a nightly build and not reading the patch notes, so brave.
Sometimes I’m too tired and/or lazy to read through dozens of commits on their repo
Then use the releases, that’s literally what they’re for.
Why tho? I never complained about the way it is, I use testing/nightly/beta/alpha everywhere and I rarely have problems. Also with FF. I was more ranting about myself not realizing that the requirement was gone, considering I, multiple times, upgraded and then e.g. opened a few tabs after, which usually prompted for a restart. And in the end, it’s not gonna change anything, as the point of nightly is to catch any bugs and instabilities, which would very likely only occur after a restart of FF.
Oh yeah, I live dangerously too. If it breaks, I can fix it and the total effort of fixing the random problems that happen is less than I would spend reading patch notes.
But, we got newbies here and we gotta teach 'em right from wrong.
You have to learn the rules before you can know when it’s okay to break them
99% of problems I have with arch testing can be resolved by simply downgrading a package, if I can’t fix it by any other means
AND THE BEST PART IS THAT YOU STILL CAN RESTART IT IF YOU WANT TO! WELCOME TO THE FUTURE, LUCY!
Charlie’s still using that gamer version of Opera though. With the fake key stroke sounds enabled.
Charlie is a simple creature.
woah what that sounds horrible lmao
