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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.

6 of 411 comments (clear)

  1. If you're tired by arcite · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could do a few rounds with her for you.

  2. Re:What's best by ClioCJS · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why I'd make my enterprise application use Internet Explorer. U mad?

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  3. Re:Finally by sexconker · · Score: 5, Funny

    I updated from v3.5 to v11 just 2 weeks ago, so that I could get SPDY support. I don't anticipate updating again until v20+.

    See you in November!

  4. Re:What's best by pla · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you can't disable something so simple on a corporate scale, maybe you should fine another career.

    Don't play obtuse, AC. World of difference between knowing how to set it on one machine, and deploying that to 5000 users spread across four continents.

  5. Re:What's best by kryliss · · Score: 3, Funny

    Calm down Conan, there will be no woman lamentating here.. This is Slashdot for God's sake!!

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  6. Re:What's best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next time use something which users never bother to update ... Adobe Flash