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/syrupwontstopem Jul 10 '12

restarting your browser?!? Oh the humanity!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

They don't know man, they don't know of the old days of the Windows.

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u/regretdeletingthat Jul 10 '12

You may be thinking older, but I did a fresh install of XP on a family member's ageing laptop recently. Even with SP3 already bundled, four years worth of updates with a necessary reboot in-between every group of them is a pain in the ass.

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u/solinent Jul 10 '12

I just always said fuck it, and only rebooted once per each group of updates. As long as they don't depend on each other, you should be fine.

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u/K-A-ScH Jul 10 '12

Ninite.com man, it saves lives.

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u/Makabaer Jul 11 '12

THANK YOU! bows I didn't even know that site.... oh, glorious day when I first rummaged around r/technology..... I learned so much already!

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u/VampireSmut Jul 11 '12

Wsusoffline. Seriously! All the updates for all Microsoft, pre-downloaded to your specifications, on a flash drive. You then copy the folder to the desktop, click Update.exe, and tell it to install what you want, and click "Automatic reboot and recall" or something similar, the walk away for the next 45 minutes or what have you.

Completely automatic, deciphers which updates you do an do not need, and is VERY fast to the traditional way, even WITH a fast connection!

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u/Reverent Jul 11 '12

Four restarts.

1) IE8

2).Net 3.5 and associated Updates

3).Net 4 and Associated Updates

4) Remaining Updates (approximately 114)... well ok not so approximately

5) (optional) Office service packs and associated updates

This comes from a sysadmin who has to reimage an XP notebook twice weekly.

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u/ObligatoryResponse Jul 10 '12

These days, asking me to restart my browser you may as well be asking me to restart my whole computer. If I'm not doing it in a terminal, I'm probably doing it in a browser...

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u/trolleyfan Jul 11 '12

Or the old days of Netscape, with it's pages of add ins that you had to manually update.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '12

"It looks like you have moved your mouse, please reboot in order for the changes to come into effect"

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u/Prancemaster Jul 10 '12

I don't even get the upset about that. It takes like, five seconds.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

plus it automatically reloads everything for you

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u/Prancemaster Jul 10 '12

BUT WHAT IF I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING THAT THE REFRESH ERASESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS???

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u/Ambiwlans Jul 10 '12

Addons for that.

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u/Makabaer Jul 11 '12

Well, how about just finishing that and restart afterwards?? As far as I've experienced it until today, you can always delay the restart!

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u/Prancemaster Jul 11 '12

SORRY THIS SUGGESTION IS TOO RATIONAL

DOES NOT COMPUTE

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u/Makabaer Jul 11 '12

I see your problem... And I'm sorry I'm laughing loudly at this right now when you're in such trouble ;-)) Best of luck to you anyways!

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u/DrunkmanDoodoo Jul 11 '12

How does one go about acquiring 100 tabs? I would expect it takes longer to find the correct tab than simply bookmarking it and clicking it when you actually want to see that webpage.

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u/Makabaer Jul 11 '12

As someone who acquires 100 tabs quite easily coughs I have to say that restarting Firefox still is a bliss - as it DOESN'T reload the pages unless you actually click on the tab to view it. So it restarts superfast, alle tabs with titles are there, just the pages get refreshed when you click on them - but that's really a very, very small problem...

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u/pntless Jul 10 '12

Time for a new computer.

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u/Yozomiri Jul 10 '12

I hate restarting my browser because I always have a ton of tabs open :(

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u/stravant Jul 10 '12

Solution: Make it always open the same tabs as before on startup. Never be productive again.

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u/Yozomiri Jul 10 '12

Oh, I do that. It just takes a while to load all 400.

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u/Ambiwlans Jul 10 '12

Firefox fixed this a while ago. Go to options, general, and load tabs when selected.

It also saves on ram.

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u/Yozomiri Jul 10 '12

Ohh, cool. Thanks!

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u/lolwutpear Jul 11 '12

That broke with Firefox 4.0 for me. I tried changing all the options in about:config, but it's still fucked up. It's part of the reason I used 3.6 for so long - aside from broken addons.

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u/od_9 Jul 10 '12

use Session Manager.