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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."
I hate it when commercial software nags you to upgrade, but having firefox nag you is even worse. Not even trying to RTFA because it's surely slashdotted, I wish the summary would have said why they're so hell-bent on getting users to upgrade.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
So Firefox will prove one more time that it is not suitable for enterprise unless they post some tips for admins how to disable that nag. As they are the ones insisting on not packaging an official .MSI or .PKG installer, I don't see it happening.
Mozilla should securely maintain the 2.x codestream for a decent interval rather than scaremonger into 3.x
3.x does not render our intranet as 2.x does and while our developers are working on a fix, the fact is it severely affects user experience in the interim. 3.x is only out a short time and we should not be expected to cut-over this quickly.
Jeez, you should join the Seinfeld team pimping Vista COZ OMG TEH XP IZ DANGEROUS!!