Comment by bigbugbag

The automatic update process fails because it does not have right to install software on my box. The power of setting permissions and not blindly trusting software just because it is floss.

I would not want it to have this kind of power as the security patches and critical updates are provided by the kind people managing the distro repositories, and if it could update itself it would remove the third party patches required because mozilla has been refusing for 15 years to integrate correctly in my desktop environment but did integrate in the main competitor.