There’s a new Google Messages update page that takes up your phone’s entire display every time you open the app.
Granted, keeping your apps up to date is important, and this new system will help get that across to users. But we’re not sure annoying the hell out of the user about it is the best strategy.
That’s still (slightly) better than apps which force close when they’re not updated, and don’t allow you to do anything at all.
Firefox on Linux has done this to me a few times and cost me a lot of progress and time.
I never had this issue. What were you using deb, rpm, flatpak or snap version?
I had it this week on my Mint laptop, with the bundled Firefox. I hadn’t used the laptop for a few weeks, so I knew it needed updates, but I needed to get something done straight away.
I opened something in a new tab, and it opened as the restart to update tab. As well as breaking my train of thought, it restarted without opening the new link, but also warned me that it wouldn’t reopen any private browsing tabs and another type of tab that I can’t remember.
However they justify it, that’s bad design.
That’s not Firefox forcing you to update, you had Firefox open while you (/your package manager) was updating Firefox and after the update was done Firefox needs to be reopened. To prevent this you just have to …not update Firefox while it is running.
What else is an app supposed to do if the server has been updated and is no longer compatible with the app version you are using?
if that happens occasionally, it’s fine. I’ve seen apps which update every other week and do this bullshit.