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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 88 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 9 months ago

Just invent a physical package manager where you get all your software packages in the mail every week :D

[-] johnassel@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 months ago

Interesting. On which distro? I don't have this problem on Fedora. Here the update check is disabled by default.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 months ago

You can disable it, but yeah... You shouldn't have to if it's being handled by the package manager

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

Any chance this could be disabled? I'm realizing I may run into this problem quite a bit

[-] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 0 points 9 months ago

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

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

I thought the problem was that they WEREN'T configured to not check for updates. Will look into this

[-] furycd001@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

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....

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 79 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

Then the intrusion detection software ends up being the entry vector for a virus and the company doesn’t learn its lesson

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Someone has worked for the DoD...

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Corporate experience

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Department of the Delta Quadrant?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We've had one virus scan, yes, but what about second virus scan?

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 41 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

deluge 👌

[-] autoexec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

From a what?

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