When Google released the first version of its Chrome web browser, many eyebrows were raised over the fact that it updated itself automatically and silently, in the background, without user intervention or even so much as a notice. As it turns out, this has been a brilliant move by Google, as Chrome users are the most likely to have up-to-date installations of their browser, followed at a respectable distance by Firefox users. Safari and Opera trail behind significantly.
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I wish windows would do the same. Firefox just wastes my time while I wait for it to update and redownload the page I had open. Windows wastes my time and totally disrupts my workflow.
It is such rude behaviour how windows does not put your applications back to where the the were when it started updating. If applying updates resulted in all my applications being reopened with everything just how I left it, I would not procrastinate applying updates as much.
Member since:2005-11-11
Try running Firefox as a limited user and forgetting to turn off auto-update. If you tell it to go ahead and apply the update, it just fails. Worse, every time you start Firefox it will try and fail to apply the update, and it will never go away until you dig into your Application Data folder to delete it. Serious PITA.
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Some people like to keep Firefox open for months just to avoid reloading their tabs, mostly because they have a royall ass-ton of them opened at the same time. Ever heard of "Firefox taking 2gb of RAM"?
I've heard this many times, specially from people constantly whining that FF leaks memory (having 50 youtube tabs open at the same time has nothing to do with the huge memory consumption, of course) and I still don't get it.
But that's just my two cents, of course.
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2009-04-18
This is the best solution !
I decline everytime firefox wants to be upgraded because I need to restard the browser. Noooooo !!!
I always have no less than 30 tab opened, and i don't want to lose them or to reload them.
Making auto update from google and I hope for firefox will be the best solution.
(but autoupdate from Microsoft is risky...)