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Re: [LUG] Firefox updates

 

Rob Beard wrote:
> 
> Take it you're either running Firefox on Windows/Mac or you've installed
> it separately to your distro's installed version of Firefox?

The mistake is installing updates just when the user wishes to start
using the program, this is the absolutely worst time from the users
perspective.

Which is why they should use a separate downloader, so the updates are
installed when available not when you start using the program. When
booting the machine and regularly from then on would be fine for most
people, especially for relatively small things like extensions.

Debian appears to have many of the most popular extensions available as
system wide modules to install. Although then you are waiting for the
maintainer and Debian release cycle, on the other hand it should all
just work....

 Simon


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