It seems to me that automatic update of *any* software would *not* be acceptable to some enterprises. Don't some enterprises run acceptance tests on a new version of software before deploying it? Even if the new version simply fixes a bug, rather than modifying overt behavior, changes can give rise to extra Help Desk calls. What some might consider The Right Thing others might consider disruptive.
Personally, I *never* allow automatic updates to software I use. I've been doing software development of various kinds for decades, and I always want to know what and why changes are made before I install them. The reason I use ESR is exactly because it *doesn't* change out from under me. (Except for the recent Add-On disaster, of course.) On Fri, 31 May 2019 17:26:22 +0100 Nick Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
