I'd imagine it slows most stuff down. Do you have an ssd in the machine,
That does help but it seems to me its a bottleneck in the multi tasking or
the way processor cores are utilised on Intel machines as not seen it so
bad on AMD of similar spec. Its surely not a great problem to wait for the
download though is it?
Brian

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Each time Firefox downloads one of its automatic updates, until the update
is installed, browsing in Firefox comes almost to a painful standstill.

I notice a similar issue with Win10 updates, once they are downloaded and
ready to install.