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Do you have a link to the bug?

BTW. The "won't load new pages" may be something else. If an agent launches its own Firefox in a new profile, it will sometimes trigger the auto-update which will overwrite the binary in the profile you were using. It won't crash but you'll get a warning to restart.

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Why would you give an agent rights to overwrite system wide binaries?

It shouldn't even have access to the same binaries you are using but only those within the jail it is running in.

It doesn't need rights to overwrite system binaries, it just needs enough permissions to tickle the updater. And the updater has the rights, for obvious reasons.

I don't know, firefox typically do not comes with an updater on linux as it is updated by the package manager.

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