In <news:[email protected]>,
Mark Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/7/2010 5:10 PM, Philip Chee wrote:
> > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:37:18 +0100, Ray_Net wrote:
> >
> >>> Prefable, so you can choose to NEVER have this happen and instead
> >>> dl manually from website. But *MOST* people prefer this.
> >>>
> >> Where did you find that "*MOST* people prefer this." ?
> >> You have asked and collected the answers from all ?
> >
> > The people in the SeaMonkey forums on Mozillazine have been
> > uniformly appreciative of the autoupdate feature.
>
> In fact, I've been watching these forums for years, and it's a feature
> that's been begged for as long as I can remember.
Another measure of how much people like it is how few people turn it
off. I don't know any stats for SM, but with Fx most people leave it
on. Well, a lot of them probably don't care about it one way or
another, so maybe that's more a measure of how few *dislike* it.
Apart from likes/dislikes, it's a huge win in terms of exploitable
vulnerabilities; having most users automagically using the latest
version decreases their exposure. Making automagic updates opt-in
instead of opt-out would lose that benefit.
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