I’ve written before on bad update mechanisms, but it’s worth noting that Firefox has the worst.
After several clicks and long waits, I finally made it to this screen:
And things just stopped there.
It’s a good thing I had Safari so I could, like, browse the web.
You can go ahead and blame sqlite manager if you like, since it was probably that website that was down. However, it was Firefox’s development team that made the decision that updates should block, require multiple clicks and application restarts to install, and not have a useful Cancel button. The server being down merely made things slightly worse.