Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Dec 2011 16:56 UTC
As it turns out, Google's idea of silently and automatically updating web browsers for security's sake is actually a pretty darn good idea - Chrome is pretty much always up-to-date. Microsoft agrees with this, and has announced it's going to automatically update Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and 7.
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RE[4]: Not too excited by these news
by cyrilleberger on Fri 16th Dec 2011 07:50
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Which translate to "blame the add-on developers for not spending a week testing their code on a dozen of versions". Much better than blaming Mozilla for not being able to offer a stable API, which is the part they should have copied from Chrome before copying the version scheme.
RE[5]: Not too excited by these news
by lucas_maximus on Fri 16th Dec 2011 11:30
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Member since:2009-08-18
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2007-02-17
The addons hosted by Mozilla at it addon site addons.mozilla.org are all checked automatically.
This tool allows people to check and report on addons which they are using which have nothing to do with Mozilla.
It isn't Mozilla's fault in any way if the user wants to install external software that reports itself as incompatible even when it isn't. If you want to laugh at anybody, laugh at the external-to-Mozilla addon authors who haven't followed guidelines, test only for the browser version like they are NOT supposed to, and yet they also haven't kept their addons up to date with the browser versions.
Sheesh! At least try to get the story even half right.
Edited 2011-12-16 02:54 UTC