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Never check for updates - freeradical - 08-07-2015
I just set my Firefox update preferences to this.
I'm really tired of them wanting me to install a new update every week or two.
I think they're actually worse than Adobe...
Re: Never check for updates - rjmacs - 08-07-2015
Enjoy your security holes!
miley12:
Re: Never check for updates - Black - 08-07-2015
50/50 chance you've froze it on a buggy version.
Re: Never check for updates - freeradical - 08-07-2015
They're like the boy who cried wolf. If they would restrict their YOU MUST UPGRADE NOW popups to when it was really necessary, they'd have a bit more credibility.
Re: Never check for updates - Zoidberg - 08-07-2015
What rj and Black say above; one of the reasons I switched back to Firefox from Safari was that security breaches and quibbly problems were fixed more frequently.
Re: Never check for updates - space-time - 08-07-2015
I find this annoying as well. It is annoying since I do not give my users (Dad, Wife) admin rights. Once every couple of weeks or months, I log in remotely to my Dad's MBA and I switch user to my account (admin) and I run the update. Usually 1-2 major version behind. Here at home, I use my wife's MBP daily, I do not want to swicth accounts. She uses Safari, I open Firefox. It prompts me to update, but since her account does not have admin rights, I have to put that off until I am willing to switch accounts. Having an SSD makes logging in faster, but still takes a minute or so to log in, update, log out. fine once, twice,, but it gets boring after a while. So I put it off for a few days... I try to keep more up to date, but I still slip 1-2 minor versions behind once in a wile.
Alternatives are much worse (to not update the browser).
Or I could switch to Chrome, I think that updates without having to log in as admin (I am not 100% sure though). I have other reason to not like Chrome (privacy, seem to use too many resources, etc).
Re: Never check for updates - mattkime - 08-07-2015
frequent updates are a good thing™
Re: Never check for updates - ztirffritz - 08-07-2015
mattkime wrote::agree:
frequent updates are a good thing™
Frequent security updates are far better than the alternative. Microsoft went YEARS without updating IE. It was such a disaster, it would be hard to imagine how to make it worse.
Re: Never check for updates - Yoyodyne ArtWorks - 08-07-2015
I just updated to Firefox 39.0.3, it took approximately five seconds. Oh the horror...
Re: Never check for updates - $tevie - 08-07-2015
I don't do work that is so crucial that I can't stop for a few seconds. Seriously, it takes no time at all. But if I don't feel like doing it right then, I dismiss it and wait until it reminds me the next time.