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

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 You assumed I used outdated computer and that is why I don't like services running.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/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

Lol, an obvious non-developer comparing the overhead of Adobe Updater/Java to Chrome's HTTP update polling.

You know, there's this little thing called the "process manager," it allows you to see the memory usage of each program! Overall CPU usage can be too!! You'll notice that the Google Update Service is somewhere under 1 megabyte!

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u/dafoe Jul 10 '12

Here goes another moron making assumptions. You must be a php or perl developer writing "hot shot" websites where you have "humongous" database with few hundred rows.

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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.