Just so everyone knows, firefox does have an internal updater. Perhaps you don't have extensions that update, or your just so quick to notice the new releases firefox never gets a chance to tell you, but either way the feature is there.It is a fairly simple system too, but it tends to lag a day or two behind the release of a new firefox version on the mozilla site. Basically if you notice an arrow near the "page loading" icon (The spinning circle), then that is a notice that an update is available. Just click the arrow, and firefox will walk you through the update.Easy as that...Well, unless you turned off the update checking feature in the options.
Goat, it didn't say anything about IE and spyware, also why are you cussing and getting super defensive over IE, you don't work for microsoft... do you?
goat: The issue is really that IE fails to implement the web standards, and thus web developers have started using all the things to make stuff work just in IE... It is the web developers fault if their site does not work with Firefox. Have you read any of the IE7 info? They are adding stuff Firefox already has (tabbed browsing, alpha-PNG's I think, etc etc)So it's true, you really won't have a problem using IE... yet. Once developers start actually using standards and stop custom tailoring sites to work in IE, then the flaws will show.Awesome, updating now!
IIRC, 1.1 and beyond will allow simple patches.That said, *many* programs do require full replacements for upgrades/security fixes. MS stuff generally doesn't, except for major things like going from WMP 9 to 10. Neither do games and large apps that fill up CD-sized amounts of space, but smaller stuff? It's pretty common. Media stuff, most utility programs I can think of, RSS readers and the majority of stuff I actually use. Some of the exceptions are pretty annoying, in fact, like *some* antivirus software *cough*Norton*cough*.
7of7Jul 12, 2005
At least Digg 2.0 works better now in Firefox. That slow loading and jerky scrolling was really starting to piss me off.
jammerdelrayJul 12, 2005
Long live firefox!! I've been using 1.05 for awhile and it's very stable
aractorJul 12, 2005
Just so everyone knows, firefox does have an internal updater. Perhaps you don't have extensions that update, or your just so quick to notice the new releases firefox never gets a chance to tell you, but either way the feature is there.It is a fairly simple system too, but it tends to lag a day or two behind the release of a new firefox version on the mozilla site. Basically if you notice an arrow near the "page loading" icon (The spinning circle), then that is a notice that an update is available. Just click the arrow, and firefox will walk you through the update.Easy as that...Well, unless you turned off the update checking feature in the options.
keiserJul 12, 2005
Goat, it didn't say anything about IE and spyware, also why are you cussing and getting super defensive over IE, you don't work for microsoft... do you?
iced_eagleJul 13, 2005
goat: The issue is really that IE fails to implement the web standards, and thus web developers have started using all the things to make stuff work just in IE... It is the web developers fault if their site does not work with Firefox. Have you read any of the IE7 info? They are adding stuff Firefox already has (tabbed browsing, alpha-PNG's I think, etc etc)So it's true, you really won't have a problem using IE... yet. Once developers start actually using standards and stop custom tailoring sites to work in IE, then the flaws will show.Awesome, updating now!
termalJul 13, 2005
IIRC, 1.1 and beyond will allow simple patches.That said, *many* programs do require full replacements for upgrades/security fixes. MS stuff generally doesn't, except for major things like going from WMP 9 to 10. Neither do games and large apps that fill up CD-sized amounts of space, but smaller stuff? It's pretty common. Media stuff, most utility programs I can think of, RSS readers and the majority of stuff I actually use. Some of the exceptions are pretty annoying, in fact, like *some* antivirus software *cough*Norton*cough*.