On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 13:48, Jim Mathies <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:39 AM Nick Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 23:00, Jim Mathies <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Currently Firefox updates by downloading >> > update files internally while Firefox is running. We've added >> > support for downloading via the Windows BITS service in 68. >> [...] >> I'd be very interested if there's anything you can say as to *why* >> Mozilla is doing this. Why not just continue with the Mozilla >> home-baked mechanism > > This will allow us to cut down on the prompting we currently > do to do updates, which we get regular negative feedback on Okay, sounds good - we all like software that just automagically does The Right Thing without bothering us with questions, though I'd have assumed the home-grown update mechanism could be similarly modified. > and it will keep installed versions of Firefox that haven't > been opened by the user in a while fully up to date and safe. Ahaa - anything that might eliminate those pesky offers from FF to "reset" itself because "It looks like you haven't started Firefox for a while" is fine with me :-). I shall just hope that the randomly-notice-update-availability issue is also improved by this project. Thanks. Nick Boyce _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
