Yet another Firefox update

[Trebuchet]

This time to 2.0.0.11. Seems like an awful lot of updates lately, 3 or 4 in the past couple of months. And I wish they'd tell me how big it is (7.3 MB, on dial-up) before I say ok to the download. Took about 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, MS keeps wanting me to update to IE7. 14.7MB. I've actually tried to download it twice. It won't. I'll stick with FF.

[man on the moon]

A friend IM'd this to me this morning and said it works. I don't have firefox, so no promises, but it's worth a shot.

http://www.8thcivic.com/forums/water-cooler/68134-diy-how-speed-up-firefox.html

[Nowhere Man]

(Apologies if you know this already.) Tools | Options, Advanced button, Update tab. Select the "Ask me what I want to do" radio button. Don't know if it will tell you the size, though.

Fred

[Trebuchet]

(Apologies if you know this already.) Tools | Options, Advanced button, Update tab. Select the "Ask me what I want to do" radio button. Don't know if it will tell you the size, though.

Fred

Already had that set, it asked me all right. Just no clue as to the size. What's really annoying me is how frequently they're coming. Almost as bad as Microsoft!

[HenrikOlsen]

And if updates don't come often, they're accused of ignoring problems.

There's just no way to win.

[Moose]

Already had that set, it asked me all right. Just no clue as to the size. What's really annoying me is how frequently they're coming. Almost as bad as Microsoft!

Henrik is right. Frankly, I switched to Firefox precisely because I could expect quick response to critical bugs. I remember some critical (and actively exploited) IE security holes that got fixed only when Hull (Québec) Froze Over, eight months or more later. I'm aware of exploited criticals it took MS years to get around to addressing.

2.0.0.x has been feature-locked since 2.0.0.8 or .9. What you're seeing now is critical bugfixes, the stuff that can't wait, and whatever less-than-critical problems were solved in the mean time. It just happened that two problems were picked up in rapid succession.

Mozilla is doing exactly the right thing. It's not as if the update installs are problematic. Just click if you want the updates now (and a minute later have your web pages brought back, ready for more browsing) or later, next time you turn it on.

[Hydro]

As a dedicated Firefox user for several years now, I was greatly disappointed that after one of the recent updates, all of my bookmarks were gone. Disappeared, vanished. :confused:

Luckily, I had a backup copy of the bookmark file that was fairly recent.

[Maksutov]

And if updates don't come often, they're accused of ignoring problems.

There's just no way to win.Agreed.

At least the folks at Firefox acknowledge the real reasons for the updates (i.e., there are always hackers out there with nothing better to do).

Unlike MacroBucks, which will attempt to disguise the updates as new "features" and often try to make you pay for them.

In general, get used to the fact that in an interconnected world, software is a dynamic commodity.

[Trebuchet]

Interestingly, I'm only at 2.0.0.6 at work. Updates are of course controlled by IT. It was only a few months ago that we got FF 2 at all. We also have IE6!