Auto updates are fantastic if, and only if, the developer can be trusted not to break things for fun. Firefox's auto-updates consist of downloading stuff in the

Auto updates are fantastic if, and only if, the developer can be trusted not to break things for fun. Firefox's auto-updates consist of downloading stuff in the background, prompting me to "restart when you want to apply the update", and then changing next to nothing about my experience of the application between updates. That is the perfect update story. Everyone loves it: the users aren't having their workflows upended, the developers are able to push updates regularly for security problems and the like, the only loser is the graphics designer who got hired because daddy owns the company and needs to constantly re-design the user interface to justify their job. (seriously, people in companies that do this kind of shit, what is it with re-designs? Why?)