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Chrome and Firefox auto updates too. But those are fast, done in the background and they don't require reboots.

Windows is still terrible at this.

I don't think updating an application is really comparable to updating an operating system. The OS is vastly more complex.

Nevertheless, Firefox on Linux via package manager definitely requires a restart. Typically I know when Firefox has been updated because I get a window saying "your browser needs to restart".

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9s78fh/sick_of_get...

The restart is not the problem, the time it takes is. (And that it prompts rather aggressively to reboot.)

They do require you to restart the application. Same with Windows, it updates in background and requires a relaunch.

I have no problem with the relaunch, but it takes a lot of time to do the actual update at relaunch time. So the launch time with update is at least a magnitude larger than it should be.

This coupled with the fact that Windows update is rather monolithical yet it should be simple to update most of the non-kernel parts without reboot leads to too many slow reboots :/

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