Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th May 2009 22:42 UTC
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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Well, in the army for example they want total control over what goes in and what comes out. So much that they even pay hugh amount of money to Microsoft just to _read_ the source code to Windows.
In case they use the browser inside the intranet it may be nice to be able to remove as much junk on the cables as possible. Of course, since it's open source you could easily do this with a few modifications to the code.
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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".