Mozilla Plans Silent Updates for Firefox

[Tepid]

still beats IE by a mile though

Believe it or not, I have seen exactly that, more than a few times on broken systems.

 

[Tepid]

still beats IE by a mile though

Believe it or not, I have seen exactly that, more than a few times on broken systems.

The worst that I had ever seen was on a small monitor setup, that you could barely see a 1/8th of a web page. They used it like that for a long time, and just scrolled through pages thinking that is how it was supposed to be. Then I started removing them and they said "Really? I didn't even know". Yeah, crazy.

 

[madtownidiot]

I can sum up the reason I prefer FF to IE in four words: adblock plus and noscript,
They stop most of that crap before the end user can accidentally click on it. On most of the computers I've bought and sold lately, there really isn't much of a difference between FF and IE speedwise, given a reasonably fast internet connection, but properly configured, FF is far more secure than IE.. which will always be more vulnerable because it's embedded into the OS and uses active x.

 

[fseal]

There are ad blockers for IE (even though the ad block plus guy has some political adgenda against providing it for IE, his "reasons" for not doing so are completely invalid, it's like he hasn't even bothered to try to look into it, he just doesn't want to but others have taken up his slack)

Also, IE has BUILT IN "no script" handling... Admitedly it's not as nice to use as NoScript but there are also other no script plugins for IE as well. EVERYONE should use the built in feature at minimum but of course it's not actually fully enabled by default because that would kill nearly every web page made and 99% of users are not willing or able to manage such a thing themselves

 

[KremmenUK]

Previous updates have rendered some Add-ins incompatible. If you can't stick with a particular version until compatible then you could be up the creek.

Norton has 2 add-ons that are not always updated quickly.

I'll bet they don't work in FF4 yet.

 

[madtownidiot]

You can get adblock plus for IE, but you have to pay for it, which is fair enough considering the effort involved in developing it. Noscript for FF is not exactly friendly for the average user, but very good at stopping malicious scripts and drive-by downloads that try to install fake AV's and the like.. Have you seen what happens to a computer that gets infected by some variation of "antivirus pro" or "security tool"? .. it's really annoying, and renders a computer unusable to the average person

 

[windows7user]

You can get adblock plus for IE, but you have to pay for it, which is fair enough considering the effort involved in developing it.

I use Adblock IE (Adblock IE), which does a very good job blocking ads in IE and is free.

 

[madtownidiot]

ok... so now adblock IE is free ... pretty sure it wasn't the last I loooked it up, but that eas a while ago

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[pparks1]

I'm the type that for the most part goes with updates for my software when they are available and have suffered very few serious problems because of it. While I do review Windows update stuff for work on our WSUS server, for home based use, if Microsoft releases a critical update then I am pretty much going to install it.

I mean, with current versions of Firefox, how many of you guys get the pop-up that a new version of FF is available and you just click on it to get the new version? Do you really stop to think about, make a backup, scour the web doing research, double check all of your plugins and then resort to installing it? My guess is that very few do that.

 

[Win7User512]

I mean, with current versions of Firefox, how many of you guys get the pop-up that a new version of FF is available and you just click on it to get the new version? Do you really stop to think about, make a backup, scour the web doing research, double check all of your plugins and then resort to installing it? My guess is that very few do that.

I agree that few people do that. That is one reason why millions of computers get infected by worms when patches are already available (talking Windows here). But I do have it set to not update and I actually look for updates and when one is found I read the release notes/bug fixes. But no, not many at all do that. That stuff doesn't mean much to most users.

 

[pparks1]

But I do have it set to not update and I actually look for updates and when one is found I read the release notes/bug fixes. But no, not many at all do that. That stuff doesn't mean much to most users.

I just don't even bother looking into these things at all at home. Between system restore and images that I have made...backing out an update that causes an issue is a piece of cake. I just don't see myself staying on previous versions of software or versions before updates that are available. If I do run into a snag, I'll either change my other software or try to come up with a work around.