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No offense intended... but I don't understand you, or people like you. The upgraded version is better in every imaginable way. It's like you have a dirty old Ho

No offense intended... but I don't understand you, or people like you. The upgraded version is better in every imaginable way. It's like you have a dirty old Honda Civic in your driveway, and someone is offering you a brand new 3 series BMW, for free, with zero effort (and they will even transfer your change out of the driver's console, and swap your radio stations for you). Is it just laziness, or distrust of "new" code, or something I haven't thought of yet? If you stumbled on a website that required a recent browser, would you actually leave instead of upgrade?

erydo 15y ago
Some extensions haven't been updated to support newer versions of Firefox. Some people just don't want to sink time into upgrading their software, or risk that something that once worked now doesn't. If you're a web developer, you have to keep in mind that not everyone is using the latest and greatest all the time.
bzbarsky 15y ago
Say I take your analogy seriously. Someone is offering you the BMW for free, but it has different control placement (cruise control is in a different place, climate controls work totally differently, and so forth), and requires more expensive gas. Oh, and you have no money to pay for the gas, and you do a _lot_ of driving and don't want the distraction of learning the new controls on the road. And for your current usage, the Civic works fine. Oh, and the Civic has better reliability than the BMW. See http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Honda_Civic/2011/Reliability/ http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Honda_Civic... vs http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/BMW_3-Series/Reliability/ http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/BMW_3-Serie... I can totally understand someone wanting to stick with the Civic instead. Of course I speak as someone who bought a Civic, precisely because it's a pretty darned good car. ;)
SkyMarshal 15y ago
For the majority of people who aren't in tech or early adapters, we've reached the point of 'good enough'. Upgrading to 'marginally better' has little to no (perceived) utility. As an aside, that's one of the most beneficial aspects of Chrome and Firefox's CI/incremental update models - normal users don't have to think about upgrading anymore, it just gets done in background. As long as it doesn't kill any addons/extensions (which normal users aren't power users of anyway), it's a great way to keep the web up to date. I don't know if MS, Apple, and Opera are going that way too, but hopefully they will.
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ck2 15y ago
I use several plugins for development and research that were not working in 4 or 6 and I also really needed the statusbar. Fortunately I found alternatives and fixes and workaround to get it all back to where I wanted, but it took a whole weekend of searching and fine-tuning (and still some things aren't quite right). If I had jumped onto 4.0 it would have been a nightmare. I've also never re-formated and re-installed Windows XP since day one (even upgrading from Windows2000 only after XP was EOL'ed). I have better things to do with my time and I have it running/tuned to my specific desired. Some people reformat like every other month and start from scratch which would be a massive waste of my time and energy. Many times older is better because it's better documented, as long as it's not buggy.

erydo 15y ago

Some extensions haven't been updated to support newer versions of Firefox. Some people just don't want to sink time into upgrading their software, or risk that something that once worked now doesn't. If you're a web developer, you have to keep in mind that not everyone is using the latest and greatest all the time.

bzbarsky 15y ago

Say I take your analogy seriously. Someone is offering you the BMW for free, but it has different control placement (cruise control is in a different place, climate controls work totally differently, and so forth), and requires more expensive gas. Oh, and you have no money to pay for the gas, and you do a _lot_ of driving and don't want the distraction of learning the new controls on the road. And for your current usage, the Civic works fine. Oh, and the Civic has better reliability than the BMW. See http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Honda_Civic/2011/Reliability/ http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Honda_Civic... vs http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/BMW_3-Series/Reliability/ http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/BMW_3-Serie... I can totally understand someone wanting to stick with the Civic instead. Of course I speak as someone who bought a Civic, precisely because it's a pretty darned good car. ;)

SkyMarshal 15y ago

For the majority of people who aren't in tech or early adapters, we've reached the point of 'good enough'. Upgrading to 'marginally better' has little to no (perceived) utility. As an aside, that's one of the most beneficial aspects of Chrome and Firefox's CI/incremental update models - normal users don't have to think about upgrading anymore, it just gets done in background. As long as it doesn't kill any addons/extensions (which normal users aren't power users of anyway), it's a great way to keep the web up to date. I don't know if MS, Apple, and Opera are going that way too, but hopefully they will.

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ck2 15y ago

I use several plugins for development and research that were not working in 4 or 6 and I also really needed the statusbar. Fortunately I found alternatives and fixes and workaround to get it all back to where I wanted, but it took a whole weekend of searching and fine-tuning (and still some things aren't quite right). If I had jumped onto 4.0 it would have been a nightmare. I've also never re-formated and re-installed Windows XP since day one (even upgrading from Windows2000 only after XP was EOL'ed). I have better things to do with my time and I have it running/tuned to my specific desired. Some people reformat like every other month and start from scratch which would be a massive waste of my time and energy. Many times older is better because it's better documented, as long as it's not buggy.