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I abandoned Firefox for Chrome simply because it drove me nuts with software updates. It seems like every time I'd open up Firefox, there was an add-on update process and sometimes Firefox updates to install.

Chrome just stays out of the way and provides updates with all the crazy pop-ups.

The "default" today should be to install updates silently; not pester users with messages about why they should upgrade (I'm also looking at you Apple).



Silent updates are the next important feature coming to Firefox, see the roadmap:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Desktop




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