Tabbed browsing is pretty much the norm by now, with even someone like me (who disliked it vehemently for a long time) finally giving in and start using tabbed browsing (thanks to Chrome, by the way). Well, apparently, Mozilla thinks its time to move on. They believe tabbed browsing has become obsolete, and are asking users to come up with a better alternative.
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Member since:2007-11-29
The problem is that you can only skip it once, and with the next restart, it gets downloaded and installed without a question. Yeah, I can see that it's important to be up to date (btw, I always install new Opera updates as soon as I can), but it's just annoying when you have to look up something very quickly and you're short on time, but then the forced update occurs and you have to wait and wait and wait.
And yes, this has happened to me more than just once in a lifetime.
I'd be glad if Opera had a more convenient update mechanism as well, but I wouldn't want it unskippable. I don't want the machines to take control 
Member since:2007-03-06
Member since:2007-09-23
So maybe this should work for most people:
1) Download updates in background and install without prompting (default)
2) Notify user of available downloads
3) Manual upgrades
Solution 2 and 3 would never force anything, and solution two would be discrete and non-intrusive. Solution number 3 would just be a button that says "Check for updates".
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2007-09-23
When the results of badly updated software around the Internet is more spam in my inbox I am all for forcing users to upgrade their software.
Just let people who have a clue turn the feature off, and leave it on as standard of Average Joe who doesn't even know why he should care about updates.
Forced automatic updates by default is a must!