Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades

ruphus13 writes "Firefox has been pushing version 3.0 very aggressively, and firmly believes that it is a solid product. The Download Day was just one of their ways to drum up user support for the new release. Now, Firefox is going to 'gently nudge' users of Firefox 2.0 to upgrade. Some users may have been waiting for their add-ons to get upgraded, but now Mozilla is planning to apply a little nudge. Sometime within the next week, people using Firefox 2.0.0.16 will see a request to upgrade and though you'll have the option to decline, it's likely Firefox will ask again anyway. Users will most likely be offered a second chance to upgrade after several weeks. (Mozilla will stop supporting version 2 in December.) It will be interesting to see if this speeds up the rate of upgrade by users, as well as upgrades of the add-ons."

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Re:Option to turn it off..

[dedazo]

But FUD is fun. For example, when IE7 was released, it was widely reported by Slashdot and everyone else that it would be "forced" on to poor unsuspecting IE6 users. The truth of it of course was that you could just refuse the update. Forever. And then when you were ready, just go to the IE download page and get it. Or not.

FUD is always fun... until it turns around and bites you in the ass.