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.
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.
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 :)
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.
I'm pretty sure it's disabled on the M$ Store version.
Also, on macOS it's so annoying that literally every app checks for (and even wants to install) updates while I have the Brew package manager installed.
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.
