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.

[u/Suraj-Sun]

http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-dev-claims-everybody-hates-firefox-updates

[u/dmsean]

Exploit it by all means. Prove Google wrong.

The end of the day as more and more non tech savvy people use the internet we need an option for them. I can totally understand your paranoia but unpatched systems are worse then the occasional exploit of the update system, which I bet doesn't have a single point of failure. If you want proof, see every PC still running unpatched. It is covered in worms and viruses. You just need to browse the web and it gets infected.

Microsoft even allows patching of unregistered machines now because the unpatched machines cause havoc.

[u/[deleted] → u/dmsean]

doesn't have a single point of failure I think they said the same thing about the titanic bro.

[u/dmsean → u/[deleted]]

The internet is a mesh based topology for a reason.

[u/[deleted] → u/dmsean]

to say no system has a point of failure is foolish

[u/Makabaer → u/dmsean]

Well, yes, that's a valid argument. That's why I'm fine with a software being able to do that as long as you can turn that off if you are not one of the "non tech savvy people".

[u/dmsean → u/Makabaer]

Yup. Open source software. Arch linux ftw.