Joeis98
September 6, 2021, 3:20am
1
Can you please add a feature to disable auto-updates for the browser and the extensions? A lot of users like me want to see the release notes before updating , so something like this would be very helpful.
There is an open feature request on Github regarding the issue, but no information when developers will implement such an option.
opened 01:51PM - 07 Aug 19 UTC
security
suggestion
priority/P4
feature/updater
OS/Desktop
## Description
Brave is really nice web browser. I truly think it is. But thes… e days, it rather tends to become a bummer due to a simple thing on which a part of the community is divided and some key people are a bit stubborn: **"Disabling autoupdate"**.
This follows up several issues on the same subject which were all closed, and so I believe it will happen for this one but I still think this is a required feature.
So please implement it. **Really, make it happen.**
Why?
- For all the real (and good) reasons that have been written and discussed (@cnst if you hear me)
- Because Brave is also an imperfect software holding **bugs** in its pretended "stable" releases
To contributors arguing that disabling autoupdate is a bad thing because you want to guarantee the most secure experience I would say that in fact you are not. Even if you do code a nice software, the releases you believe stables are not that perfect.
For example, an autoupdate frequently lead to a **loss of the opened tabs.** And this is clearly annoying: the articles you were reading? Gone. The submissions you were drafting on with no autosave? Lost. Etc.
And the list can be long sometimes: The "Downloads" section listing stuff downloaded? Feature no longer working. Oops!
Plus, these autoupdates do not warn their coming: You just get some sort of ugly (inner) app kill and that's all. Not even a restart. Even MS Windows do it better: you got a pop-up asking for a window, with a shift option!!
Clearly, the user experience just gone worse.
The aim of this issue is not to score on one side versus the other (devs vs/ users) but to make more obvious that people should have the right to use or not such a feature; I believe Brave was not made by a few people for these few people only but rather a (democratic) community, right?
**References:**
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/1877
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/10863
## Brave version (brave://version info)
0.67.123 on Windows 10 18362
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Joeis98
September 7, 2021, 11:07pm
3
I looked at that it seems it’s about the browser itself but im mainly concerned about extensions , if we can disable auto-updates for those and include release notes the way Firefox does.