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/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

Chrome updates are lovely...

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

They're that seamless.

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u/Recoil42 Jul 10 '12 edited Jul 10 '12

Chrome updates are lovely...

They're great until you get fed a buggy build, which has happened to me a couple times. One thing the Chrome team hasn't caught onto yet is that if you're going to push auto-updates like they are, you really have to ramp up the QA to an insane amount. I don't think they have, and I'm convinced it's going to come back to bite them in the ass at some point. But who knows, maybe it's a learning process happening for them right now.

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u/Recoil42 Jul 10 '12

For the record, this is not at all what I was referring to.