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My understanding is that Firefox offers LTS (the ESR versions). I don’t think the chrome team offers anything similar. In my mind the evergreen nature of browse
by charrondev 8y ago
My understanding is that Firefox offers LTS (the ESR versions). I don’t think the chrome team offers anything similar. In my mind the evergreen nature of browsers for the average person is a great thing, but I understand the desire of businesses in particular to have things be consistent.
In this case my understanding though is that nothing has functionally changed in the UI. The browser UI got a paint job, not a redesign. To the average person chrome upgrades don’t actually change much visually.
To keep up the car analogy, the security race is like if the Ford was aware of safety defects so in the middle of the night every month the came and silently fixed them. Occasionally they’d also replace the bumper or the speedometer. It’s still a speedometer and still behaves like one, but it appears slightly different.
- wlesieutre 8y agoAnd once in a while they’ll replace the whole body of your car with the new version that you hate. The more apt car analogy might be that you lease it, and the dealer sneaks in and replaces your 2016 with a 2017, then your 2017 with a 2018, and you don’t mind, that’s the terms of your lease agreement with them. And then one day they replace the 2018 with a 2019 and you’re not happy anymore because the 2019 looks like ass. But there’s no option corresponding to “buy a car instead of leasing it” so this is what we’re all stuck with.