Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
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

You would look at Task Manager for some hint as to
what is going on.

Sysinternals ProcMon would be another tool of interest.

The updater is an EXE in the Program Files folder of Firefox.
But these things could change from one release to another.

Modern Firefox also puts a toast notice on the screen,
as a further source of annoyance. The Firefox updater
requests UAC elevation, and that can be a source of slowdown,
if (somehow) the UAC prompt was hidden behind other items.
Some of the older OSes were capable of hiding a UAC prompt.

There is a whole lot of junk involved, to make this work.

And Windows Update scans the living **** out of the computer,
even when the Settings window is not open. Windows Update is
also allowed to scan the living **** out of the machine,
multiple times a day. That used to be a problem for some
corporations running Windows 7, that was a complaint.
It was running hourly or something. And that's before
the download for the update has even started.

Paul