Yes, FF keeps asking to update, at THE most inconvenient time of course! In any case, with the "Bowling Ball" effect W10 updates has and the recent disaster that Cleaner has become I resist all updates save those for W7, Samplitude Pro x 3 and Reaper.
RAM? Yes! just checked, FF grabs a gig more than the old IE at 3.59G. Good job I had an extra 4G fitted in this laptop else FF would barely leave me anything left from the original 4G!
Might give Chrome a do later.
Dave.
I use to work at a place that had Chrome as their default browser for all users. They went to near extreme measures before doing that, so I'd say Chrome isn't a bad choice.
As for FireFox updates, I've never had a problem. Sometimes, I will go into the browser, and get a message that says "updating" or something similar. It never lasts more than a minute or so and then I'm up and running. Now, I also worked at a place were we used one computer for all of our necessities and it had Win 7 on it, until somebody made the mistake of saying "yes" to a free upgrade to Win 10.
Since I worked the night shift, I was always the lucky one to experience Win 10 updates and let me tell you, they lasted a very long time. And this was bad for me, because I needed to use the computer for work. Of course, it would always warn you not to turn the computer off during the update and you wanted to abide by that. But, it would take a long time and sometimes hang in the middle so you had to hard boot the poor computer.
Then, it would start the update all over again, and you'd cross your fingers that it would actually complete that time around. And even if it did, there were more than a few times when the computer didn't want to finish it's initial testing after the update and I'd end up booting again, hoping it would go that time. And after it would boot, I would do a couple of warm boots, just to make sure it was working again.
Seriously, I don't know if it was just that computer and Win 10, or if other people had issues with updates, too. It did have some strange propitiatory software on it. Talk about headaches, when you're the only person in the place and you're having to deal with things like that. I had work to do!
We didn't have any trouble, with Win 7. On my home computers, I have a couple that still have XP because of the software installed. But they don't connect to anything online, so everything is happy. Like I said, this computer is 8.1 and while it has things I don't like about it, the updates always seem to work and they don't take too long...maybe 10-15 minutes, at the most.
I have it set to do the updates when I shut down or restart. That work computer with Win 10 was never shut down, except to restart it. It was used 24/7 so there was never a good time to do the updates. 2 AM was what it was set for and it would sometimes be 4 AM before the computer was usable again. Thankfully, I don't work there any more. Some other poor sole has to deal with it. Sorry, I don't mean to take the thread away from the OP, but I feel better, now that I got that out of my system. LOL.