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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.

4 of 411 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Gahhh!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is exactly what the Firefox extended release is for.

  2. Re:So it has come to this. by Cito · · Score: 5, Informative

    someone hasn't seen the latest benchmarks on tomshardware then.

    Firefox is just barely but is beating chrome and IE in speed for last 2 versions..

    Chrome fanbois are about as bad as Appletards

  3. Re:Lazy devs strike again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Speaking of lazy devs, from the linked release notes:

    Known Issues

    UNRESOLVED
    Windows: The use of Microsoft's System Restore functionality shortly after updating Firefox may prevent future updates (see 730285)

    Apparently not only does something already go wrong, it can prevent your from ever being able to update Firefox again! (Without deleting your current profile, reinstalling won't work!)

    But who cares, according to the calendar, it's release time NOW!

  4. You can disable auto-updates by jlebar · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can disable auto-updates, regardless of whether or not you're running the extended support version.

    Preferences -> Advanced -> Update.

    You can also download every version of Firefox we've ever released here. We have no interest in forcing users to run the latest version.