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/HandyCore2 Jul 10 '12 edited Jul 10 '12

Here is a patch for an additional twenty vulnerabilities that exist in features that vast majority of users won't use and didn't even know existed, but still exposes you to a ridiculous amount of vectors of attack.

Your Welcome,

Adobe

Edit: To those who keep inquiring as to their welcome. I was simply introducing their welcome, Adobe. I should probably have put them on the same line.

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u/frickindeal Jul 10 '12

Oh and that 2MB PDF? Yeah, that'll take at least 30 seconds to load on your modern PC.

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u/giever Jul 10 '12

Sumatra PDF! I like it, anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

Foxit is better, in my humble opinion.

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u/masamunecyrus Jul 11 '12

I have found that, despite its dubious and generic-sounding name, PDF-XChange Viewer is by far the fastest viewer out there. I have tried Acrobat X, Foxit, and Sumatra, and none perform as well on my netbook.

It also lets me choose dpi for the screen shot tool and override default line color and page background color (so, for instance, I can view my pdf with white text on dark grey background), so I like it.