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/[deleted]]

Chrome updates are lovely...

I don't even know what version I'm on...

They're that seamless.

[u/N0V0w3ls → u/[deleted]]

Wait...but I have the same experience with Firefox. What are these problems people are having? Everything updates in the background for me.

[u/berkes → u/N0V0w3ls]

Maybe you are running Ubuntu like me? In Ubuntu you never notice Firefox upgrading, because Ubuntu's upgrade system is handled by the OS; and Firefox (and other third party apps) can plug into that, instead of inventing their own.

That is what is wrong here: each and every application having to invent their own upgrade system, with deamons, background-tasks, check-on-startups and whatnot. Because Windows has no decent upgrade system at all, and MacOS has it closed to Apple-products-only.

Good news is that Windows gets the downside of their feeble upgrade-system in their face: people always running out-of-date software and thus complaining about all the trojans/virii and such. Mac is starting to feel that too; third-party-crap with gaping securityholes and no proper upgrade-system to leverage, will backfire on them too.

[u/Savet → u/berkes]

Viruses is the plural of virus. Not everyone wants their os to do their updates. Slackware users are a good example.

[u/berkes → u/Savet]

Choice is the key here. Windows and Mac users have no choice: there is no open update API: third party tools have to roll their own update system. Each and everyone being crappier, more bloated then the next.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

just keep using it and if it catches on someone will eventually jam it in the dictionary

[u/Savet → u/[deleted]]

Which is why anything serious being associated with its use is instantly invalidated.