Star Chrome Users Most Up to Date, Firefox Second
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th May 2009 08:24 UTC
Internet & Networking 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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segedunum
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2005-07-06

I have absolutely no real clue what this thread is about, but I gather that you're bitching about the fact that Firefox downloads an update in the background without disturbing you and when you fire up Firefox again you have to wait thirty seconds for the update to take effect?

How do you think service packs work? How do you think hotfixes work? How do you think updates to most software work? You're bitching about one browser?

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google_ninja Member since:
2006-02-05

I set update on windows to go automatically in the background, and I find it kind of irritating when it interrupts my workflow with requests to reboot, or keeps me from doing what I want to do and presenting me with a progress bar.

Chrome doesn't bug me with pointless wizards, useless dialogs, or wait times on updates. It behaves exactly as it should, by default install new updates as they are available, with a way to turn it off and trigger it manually if you are in an exceptional situation.

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