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Please deprecate automatic release notes #86

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@detuur

From what I can tell, FoxyProxy is entering a period of renewed active development, which is great news for my favourite proxy add-on, which I use across a variety of devices. Unfortunately, FoxyProxy still automatically displays release notes after updates. This is very poor UX, given that Firefox will auto-update add-ons in the background. So once FoxyProxy updates, it will immediately spawn a tab for its release notes and steal focus, regardless of whether you're reading a blog, typing out a PR, trying to follow your colleague's explanation on a video call, or indeed even presenting at a meeting.

I don't consider an update to FoxyProxy to be breaking news. Even for the add-ons that I'm very invested in, I don't want them to interrupt my work. Update pages are simply way too intrusive for their purpose, and that purpose can easily be supplanted by (opt-in) e-mail lists, or even a little banner in the FoxyProxy UI if it's something truly important.

At the very least, this behaviour should be opt-in.

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