Hello there!
I need my firefox instance on umbrel to not restart. Found it restarted and because I’m stupid I didn’t look into the logs and restarted umbrel. However, the question remains. Can I make it so firefox will never restart? Or another browser maybe?
Hey @enkumber
Could you describe your problem a little more? Did Firefox restart while you were browsing or was it a case where you could not restore your browsing session after leaving the app / some period of inactivity?
As for support for other browsers, it might be coming soon since adding them should be relatively easy as they would all use the same common infrastructure (Kasm workspace) under the hood.
so I use the broeser to monitor a site. I don’t stay on it all the time, I just open Umbrel and start the app when I want to see how the monitoring is going. Just that this morning the tabs were like the browser was restarted.
It’s possible there may be some sort of timeout that deletes the last browsing session after a set amount of inactivity.
Another possibility is that the Firefox app and/or umbrelOS was updated and that caused the browsing session to be lost once the app restarted.
update is what I am suspecting also. Is there any way to stop updates? or check if it was the case?
You can check when the Firefox app docker-compose.yml and umbrel-app.yml were last modified which might give you an indication when the last update happened.
Try running:
stat ~/umbrel/app-data/firefox/docker-compose.yml
You’ll get something like:
File: /home/umbrel/umbrel/app-data/firefox/docker-compose.yml
Size: 466 Blocks: 2 IO Block: 1024 regular file
Device: 8,4 Inode: 631233 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ umbrel) Gid: ( 1000/ umbrel)
Access: 2024-07-02 12:13:37.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2024-07-02 12:13:36.000000000 +0000
Change: 2024-07-02 12:13:36.000000000 +0000
Birth: -
The Modify and Change dates should indicate when the update happened / was released.
Access: 2024-07-02 06:50:52.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2024-07-02 06:50:51.000000000 +0000
Change: 2024-07-02 06:50:51.000000000 +0000
so update it was. any chance that I can do updates manually when I can?
Currently, I don’t think there’s an option in the Umbrel App Store to disable automatic updates.
The only workaround I can think of, in the meantime, is self-hosting your own Umbrel Community App Store and hosting the fixed version of the Firefox app yourself but that does require considerable effort to both setup and maintain.
More info here if you’re interested in doing that:
Hopefully in a future update of umbrelOS there will be an option to disable auto updates among other features.
thank you very much