Firefox updates several times a week. Why so many? Maybe it does a general update, say, once every two weeks? Or maybe once a month.
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Firefox has a planned update every 4 weeks on a Tuesday. This is when new major versions come out on Stable/Beta/etc and when bug fix packages are released to ESR/Legacy. In addition, there are security and bug fix releases when a significant issue arises. These are unplanned and could come any day.
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My Firefox offers me an update every day. Is this normal?
This isn't typical of every month but it's also not unusual. There was a bug fix followed by a fix for a slowdown issue in TikTok followed by a security fix. I already outlined when updates happen and why above. Firefox's stable channel has had 5 releases so far this month. Coincidentally, Google Chrome has also had 5 updates so far this month on the stable channel.
Browsers have a massive attack surface and a ton of places that bugs can crop up. These sorts of frequent releases are not uncommon in modern browsers. The alternative is leaving yourself vulnerable to attack.
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I think I found my mistake. I am using Firefox in RAM-disk. Probably because of this the browser can not update, and tries to update again on each launch. Could it be? I am using AMD RADEON RAMDisk application.