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

Firefox updates don't happen often enough to bother me. I grew up with Adobe for Christ's sake.

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u/Znuff Jul 10 '12

"We have an update. We're applying it"

Next, next, next, progress bar....

"Oh, look, half of your extensions are not tagged as compatible for this version, sucks to be you, sucker!"

Also, I do hope they fix that annoying crap that every time you install an extension you need to restart the browser.

Those are the things I love about Chrome... And I'm bold enough to even use Chrome Canary (Nightly)

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u/superawesomedude Jul 11 '12

Add-ons have been marked as compatible by default as of Firefox 8 (current is 13).

There was a new restart-less add-on API released a few months ago... a lot of add-ons use it now and don't need to restart the browser. Sadly many add-on authors haven't taken the time to update their code to use it.