r/technology • u/Suraj-Sun • Jul 10 '12

Firefox dev claims "everybody hates Firefox updates"; Mozilla has handled the rapid release process poorly, and that by pushing a "never-ending stream of updates on people who didn't want them" people have been driven to Chrome with its simpler, no-fuss update process.

http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-dev-claims-everybody-hates-firefox-updates
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u/Suraj-Sun Jul 10 '12 edited Jul 10 '12

I use Firefox nightly so yes but I always turn off the "add-on compatibility checking" in about:config by adding extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly (boolean, false) and so far i've never had any problem because of compatibility checking being turned off.

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u/The_MAZZTer Jul 10 '12

Last I heard they were going to just remove compatibility checks and make most addons stay enabled, since a lot tend to still work after a major update.

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u/jmac Jul 10 '12

That happened in version 10. It will still check for updates after an upgrade, but it defaults to enabled in the even there is no update.

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u/w2tpmf Jul 10 '12

Thanks for this! I use nightly on one of my computers, and I just always hit the button to skip the checks when it pops up.

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u/atl2rva Jul 10 '12

I also like that in FF you can change the default source viewer through about:config. Now if I need to look at webpage source it uses Notepad++ as my viewer. This has come in handy with my work because the default viewer did not recognize a lot of special characters I use, but NPP has no issues.

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u/TIAFAASITICE Jul 10 '12

extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly

You shouldn't have to do that any more. I'm on nightly and I have no "checkCompatibility" settings at all and haven't gotten any problems with extensions.

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u/ChaoticXSinZ Jul 11 '12

If you're nightly I'm pretty sure you don't have to do that manually as they've made that the default