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Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater

Posted by Soulskill on from the grandma-will-never-know-the-difference dept.

MrSeb writes "Firefox 12 has been officially released, with only one major new feature: A silent, background updater. Now you will have to approve the Firefox Software Updater when you first install Firefox, but after that the browser will update silently — just like Chrome. In other news, the Find feature now reliably centers the page on any matches — hooray!" Here are the release notes, the list of bug fixes, and the download page.

3 of 411 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What's best by wjousts · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's pretty clear that Mozilla have no interest in catering to enterprise customers anyway.

  2. Re:So it has come to this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When you say "for the last two versions". That means more or less in the last three or four months. It took them six years to fix memory leak issues, it was still bloated and slow six months ago and now we're supposed to give them yet another chance?

    And now the whole "we need to beat Chrome's version number" game is just stupid and even a lot of hardcore Firefox users are jumping ship. People have moved on, Firefox is losing marketshare because they were lazy and didn't listen to their users. That's as simple as that.

  3. Re:What's best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Having the address bar above tabs is illogical. The tabs each represent a separate browser instance and the address bar element is a sub element of the tab, not the other way around. Having the address bar above the tabs would be like having the address bar above the window title.