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So if I understand this correctly: they fixed poor uptake by making it so you cannot opt out of upgrading to the next major. It just does it without asking?

• dangrossman 17y ago
  No no, that's not how I read it at least. There are two types of update notifications in Firefox. There's a little overlay slider that pops up in the lower right telling you about a minor update available. Then there's a large dialog window that can pop up to tell you about a big update. Unless the user left the browser open for at least 12 hours, they were never being shown the big dialog notifying them that the upgrade to Firefox 3.5 was available, only the small notification. The fix is to make the big dialog pop up. It is not to make it install automatically, you still have to click the button to say you want that update.
  • codexon 17y ago
    I think they should just get rid of those annoying pop-ups and make a red notification bar to the right of the help menu whenever there is an update.
• wmf 17y ago
  No, I think the bug was that Firefox 3.0 doesn't even tell you that 3.5 is available but now everyone running 3.0 will get a big window advertising it. The upgrade is still opt-in.