Mozilla Updates Firefox To Appease FarmVille Users

Posted by Soulskill on Monday June 28, 2010 @09:49AM from the if-only-they-could-be-motivated-to-be-a-force-of-good dept.

CWmike writes "Just three days after adding plug-in crash protection to Firefox, Mozilla rushed out another release because people playing FarmVille on Facebook complained that their browser was shutting down the game. Although complaints about Firefox's quick killing of hung plug-ins were not limited to FarmVille, that game was the squeaky wheel that got the update grease. 'A lot of people play FarmVille. To ignore those people for any length of time could have a significant effect on Firefox's share of browser users,' said Firefox user Jeff Rivett on Bugzilla Sunday. 'The problem already existed, but the perceived impact suddenly changed, giving it a much higher priority.'"

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Re:So much for the idea.... by DIplomatic · 2010-06-28 09:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

That Firefox users were smarter internet users.
No, see a couple of years ago the smarter internet users started installing Firefox for their computer-illiterate friends and family to get them away from IE.
THOSE are the type of people that play FarmVille.