Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 6, 2008 @05:18PM from the not-altogether-surprising dept.

Reader Alex links to news of a study comparing the currency and patch level of various Web browsers, excerpting: "Firefox users were far and away the most likely to use the latest version, with an overwhelming 83.3 percent running an updated browser on any given day. However, despite Firefox's single click integrate auto-update functionality, 16.7 percent of Firefox users still continue to access the Web with an outdated version of the browser, researchers said. The study also revealed that the majority of Safari users (65.3) percent were likely to use the latest version of the browser between December 2007 and June 2008, after Safari version 3 became available. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Internet Explorer users ranked last in terms of safe browsing. Between January 2007 and June 2008, less than half of IE users — 47.6 percent — were running the most secure browser version during the same time period."

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Re:Usual drivel by neonmonk · 2008-07-06 19:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

I don't mind OS X's update tool. It only pops up for critical stuff (and I often check it every couple of weeks or so anyway)
I find it fairly unobtrusive as I can select 'download only,' leave it in the background for later (or install the updates that don't require restarting)
It may also be an Operating System Illusion as I don't find leaving windows in the background very annoying, unlike Windows or Gnome/KDE. Cluttered taskbars get to me after a while (and grouping sucks)
(on a side note I actually use Webkit nightly builds for day to day browsing)