ID: IRCNE2012041481
Date: 2012-04-28
According to "internetnews", beginning with the Firefox 12 release this week, Mozilla is baking in a silent updating mechanism – for Windows users only. There is no change on Mac and Linux users. Instead of a user manually needing to click and update to the latest Firefox release, with Firefox 12 and beyond, updates can be set to automatically occur in the background, without user delay, silently.
"This feature works via a background process that is only activated during an update," Lawrence Mandel, Engineering Program Manager at Mozilla, told InternetNews.com.
Moving to a silent update process is something that Mozilla has been talking about since the end of 2011. Mozilla moved to a rapid update process in 2011 that has generated new Firefox browser releases every six weeks. It's a process that has been more cumbersome for users, but the silent update will now help to solve that issue.
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