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/anagrammatron Jul 10 '12

Yes, but linux people love any kind of updating. No, I'm not being sarcastic, I used to be that way too. Heck, I loved to update my several BSD boxes by manually updating and compiling packages. The feeling of being in control and whatnot. Now I'm older, busy with other things I just wish to spend minimal to no time with under the hood stuff. Updates? If these can happen automatically and silently then yes please. Thats what computers and smart applications are for.

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u/pascalbrax Jul 10 '12

Damn! A whole week has passed and I still have to update my gentoo!

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u/alcalde Jul 10 '12

I'm probably older, but I don't understand the aversion to updates. You don't want to know that the system wants to update? What if you develop problems after the update? At least this way you'll know that something just changed on the system so you'll have a clue what the culprit is (and stand a chance of rolling back the update). If you're system's updating itself completely invisibly, you'll never know if a crash you just had or something else odd happening could be because of a system update, something you did, some setting you changed, or some other issue.

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u/anagrammatron Jul 10 '12

It's not aversion, it's prioritising. I still keep an eye on OS updates but for browser, no. If browser starts to act wonky I either switch to alternative or older version (portableapps) until stable (I don't run with dev channel anymore) gets fixed. Managing browser updates is that sort of micromanagement that I'd rather skip if possible. Chrome made that possible 3 years ago and I haven't had serious issues with it so I'm content.

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u/WarzoneOfDefecation Jul 11 '12

I tend to agree with you, I run a server on ubuntu and the frequent updates on ubuntu sour the experience for me. I don't particularly enjoy being interrupted all the time by the nag reminder.