Forum: Weblog comments

Didn't the last time an update was rolled out to a selected group (I think it was 5.0.1) cause the same confusion? I guess somebody looked at it and decided the complexity was worth not pushing updates to people... Which could make sense, given that silent updates aren't done yet.

I don't know if I had a point

The problem is that we are already now seeing a lot of people who are annoyed by "too many updates" and so we want to avoid sending them one when it's not necessary. We will only reconsider once background updates have shipped and people will not be disturbed by updates in their workflow any more (i.e. they at least not cause them to wait for us to launch).

The thing that rankled was that the about dialog pretended it was checking for updates and then informed me that Firefox was up to date while the website was offering a newer version. The information in the about dialog should be correct.

I noticed while helping my mother to update Firefox on her laptop that Firefox 3.6 is being offered 8.0 (not 8.0.1) as a major update. Is this expected/indented?

Florian, that's interesting, we should look at that before offering 3.6 users an advertised update later this week, thanks.