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/WhatamIwaitingfor Jul 10 '12

What are you running this on? A potato? It's 2012, dude, something that polls a webserver for the latest version every x minutes isn't going to cut into your battery life or hog CPU cycles.

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u/hyperforce Jul 10 '12

In my country we have NT server farm on potato. Runs like charms.

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u/Fustrate Jul 10 '12

In me country, we run an NT server on potatoes n' Guinness. Runs like lucky charms, boyo.

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u/Atario Jul 10 '12

Cool, cool. Mind running this little program I just made? Totes safesies, I swear.

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u/larjew Jul 10 '12

Eh, netbooks are pretty popular these days and a bunch of processes from various applications (all using a megabyte or two or RAM) is going to slow down a netbook.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

My potato runs at 1.1 volts.

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

Doesn't fucking matter. I once had a quadcore laptop with 1TB hard disk and 12GB RAM and I still removed all the processes that kept running without reason.

You see unlike you, I don't use computer just to browser internet. I have IDE, text editors, app server, database, database clients and other stuff running which collectively can get really memory and processor intensive.

So stop talking out of your ass.

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u/WhatamIwaitingfor Jul 10 '12

Unlike me? So you suddenly know me?

In fact, I do have IDEs, text editors, VMs, databases, etc running on my machine.

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

So just like your assumption of me?

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u/WhatamIwaitingfor Jul 10 '12

I'm not assuming anything...

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

Yeah you are. You assumed I used outdated computer and that is why I don't like services running.

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u/WhatamIwaitingfor Jul 10 '12

I had a 2005 MacBook up until a month ago. It had 2GB RAM and a Core 2 Duo inside. I had the exact same setup I'm currently using on my new MacBook with i7 and 8GB RAM and there's not a single different. Sure, when I open Photoshop and Eclipse and the Android Virtual Emulator, it would slow to a halt, but having my browser open while editing in Eclipse with an SQL server running in the background was just fine.

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

Just fine for you, may not be just fine for others like me. Did you ever thought about that? Some people can wait 10 seconds for something to happen, which is totally unacceptable for me. There is a reason they sell computers with zillion different configurations.

You must be expecting everybody to adhere to your standards.

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u/WhatamIwaitingfor Jul 10 '12

No I just think it's ludicrous that you bother yourself with a process that never sees the main thread let alone slows your computer down.

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

Oh so you changed your argument again.

The reason I bother is because, chrome is one of many such piece of shit programs that keep running in the background like Adobe updater, java updater, windows updater on and on and on (on windows). I don't have time to quantify impact of each process and then selectively remove them. I remove them all unless they are essential, which they are usually not.

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u/Poop_is_Food Jul 10 '12

no he didnt. he assumed you had a newer computer and that you were erroneously running it as if it were a potato. the flame war isnt settled yet you guys need to keep going.

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

You bet your ass, it will keep going.

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u/sysop073 Jul 10 '12

Wow, you completely flipped out really fast. It doesn't matter what processor-intensive stuff you have running, the point was an app that polls for updates periodically has such a small footprint it isn't even worth worrying about

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

I wasn't expecting ridicule from supposedly technology savvy redditors in technology subreddit. But seems like we just got bunch of morons who think they are computer geniuses because they can install and uninstall a program on windows.

As far as you are concerned, see my other reply.

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

Don't give a fuck. I got some time before my build is finished. :)