Meanwhile on Windows: "That's just my antivirus. Yeah... I won't be very productive for the next 20 minutes."
It's a real problem. I think there's a Firefox bug where Firefox will freeze while checking for updates while the CPU is under heavy load.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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It's fucked-up that Firefox even checks for updates itself (instead of letting the package manager do it) in the first place. It wouldn't have the bug if it didn't have the unnecessary functionality.
Just invent a physical package manager where you get all your software packages in the mail every week :D
Interesting. On which distro? I don't have this problem on Fedora. Here the update check is disabled by default.
In context, my comment was really more about dunking on Windows for not having proper package management. Firefox only "needs" that feature because it's working around Windows' deficiencies.
I'm pretty sure it's disabled on the M$ Store version.
Also, on macOS it's so annoying that literally every app checks for (and even wants to install) updates while I have the Brew package manager installed.
You can disable it, but yeah... You shouldn't have to if it's being handled by the package manager
Any chance this could be disabled? I'm realizing I may run into this problem quite a bit
Yeah, probably easiest & best to uninstall and reinstall with a package manager. Anything that manages updates will likely have Firefox configured to not check for updates
If you are a GUI kind of guy try your OS's app store.
Otherwise apt, yum, homebrew or winget should do the trick :)
Heres an informative forum post about it: https://superuser.com/questions/1370165/disable-or-control-upgrading-of-firefox
I thought the problem was that they WEREN'T configured to not check for updates. Will look into this
I can make Firefox use way too much resources simply by visiting an Instagram profile & opening the toolbox on a few posts to inspect the code....
Finding: It’s our new intrusion detection software deployed across the enterprise that reads every byte read or written to disk and memory.
Check for updates and maybe, just maybe, the vendor, fickle gods that they are, will release an update that doesn’t mistakenly triple scan everything.
Then the intrusion detection software ends up being the entry vector for a virus and the company doesn’t learn its lesson
Someone has worked for the DoD...
Corporate experience
Department of the Delta Quadrant?
We've had one virus scan, yes, but what about second virus scan?
That moment when you hear the fans slowing down, realize they shouldn't have been running high, and you have no idea how long they were. I'm hardware, not software, so I just assume my robot master has artificial constipation.
A testing lemmy instance with no users just did that for 24 hours before I turned it off. The fans woke me during the night
Last time I got a scare like that, it was the monitoring agent that had some code with a performance that depended o the number it measured.
Debian, at some point, had updatedb scheduled as a cronjob by default. Nearly shit my pants thinking I was hacked when it started up on my computer out of the blue haha.
fork bomb
deluge 👌
From a what?