I'm a very long time die-hard Firefox user, the only reason I even have Chrome on my system is because I built an application that requires WebMIDI, which Firefox still refuses to support.

But I'm starting to believe that the browser wars have been conclusively lost and it's time to throw in the towel. Losing a whole morning on this trick is really pissing me off, I'm in the middle of a bunch of stuff and if not for this HN thread I'd be unable to continue to work. Very, very annoying. Browsers are mission critical, you don't just fuck around with the networking settings on a timed change.

Wouldn't you just have different problems with Chrome?

> Browsers are mission critical, you don't just fuck around with the networking settings on a timed change.

Is that what they did? I thought the problem was a server-side change by a Mozilla vendor. And if they did, how else does Firefox update networking? How does Google do it with Chrome?

Yep, I can't use Firefox for an exam I have today. It's just not worth the risk. It was already not working great on Firefox to begin with.

Can you imagine if this situation happened to someone in the middle of the exam? I'd never blame the browser for a loss of connection before a good few minutes of trying everything else.

Ugh. Much good luck with your exam though!

Oh good one. Thank you!

Huh? Firefox on macOS autoupdates quite fine. You do not need to download it manually.

That's not what it is about it is about the irritating 'one more thing we need to do before you can continue to do your important work is to restart firefox'.

What if I don't want to autoupdate? Why should a browser which was working just fine one day stop working the next, just because Mozilla released a new version? Why does a new version release kill an already installed existing version?

Also, an update (auto or manual) means restarting the browser, which logs me out of my sessions, profile, and password manager.