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just a pain in the ass since you need to reboot your computer to do so. I went 2 months w/o a reboot, but ended up doing it when I had to upgrade firefox to see the site

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Why do you need your computer on so much?

And what os are you running that a reboot was required for firefox?

it takes like 2 minutes to turn the computer on, and then you have to launch all the apps. I'm just used to keeping it always on, so that I can get started right away.

OS is vista, but the reboot was required by firefox, not the OS.

Firefox only required the reboot due to an OS limitation by the sounds of it though, I didn't have to reboot my linux box or my macbook.

That's a problem with your OS and not with firefox then. My fox sometimes updates itself multiple times a day, without any rebooting.

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