nsane.forums Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 The silent auto-updater means that startup and shutdown of the open-source web browser won’t be affected by installation routines. It will also ensure a wider distribution of security fixes. Mozilla plans to add a silent automatic patching utility into Firefox 13 as part of a plan to “cater to update fatigue.” Firefox currently offers an automatic updater but the process is not silent and requires that the end user click to apply the patch after it’s downloaded. With the silent updater, Firefox security patches will be downloaded and installed silently in the background. “It means that startup and shutdown of the web browser won’t be affected by installation routines,” says Robert Nyman, a technical evangelist at Mozilla. Additionally, the “What’s New” page displayed after an update can now be displayed depending if there is important information needed to be displayed to the end user, Nyman added. Computerword’s Gregg Keizer reports that Firefox 13 is due in June 2012. Mozilla currently ships Firefox updates on a six-week cycle. Google has fitted a silent auto-updater into the Chrome browser and there is word Adobe will do the same for its Flash Player software. For years, security practitioners have argued against silent patching, warning that end users should know — and consent to — what’s being changed on the machine but, according to a study conducted jointly by Google Switzerland and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the silent updaters in browsers enhance security: With silent updates, the user does not have to care about updates and system maintenance and the system stays most secure at any time. We think this is a reasonable default for most Internet users. Further more, silent updates are already well accepted for Internet Web applications. …Our measurements prove that silent updates and little dependency on the underlying operating system are most effective to get users of Web browsers to surf the Web with the latest browser version. However, there is still room for improvement as we found. Google Chrome’s advantageous silent update mechanism has been open sourced in April 2009. We recommend any software vendor to seriously consider deploying silent updates as this benefits both the vendor and the user, especially for widely used attack-exposed applications like Web browsers and browser plug-ins. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I guess that will help less techie people who dont update firefox manaully.Chrome and firefox silent updates - Sounds good to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 It'll be a nice feature when it get implemented :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aboufadwa Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 that s wil be nice......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oZ. Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 finally....some people just do not update at all. then compliant about how Firefox is slower than chrome (generally)with this feature things will be nice =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 This is precisely why I don't use Chrome. I refuse to let anybody - and I mean ANYBODY - make ANY changes on my PC whatsoever without my explicit consent, even if it is just security fixes.What Mozilla should do for the idiots who can't even bother to check for updates periodically is add a check for "Auto Update" by default in the installer the first time 'round, so that only some guys - like myself - will actually uncheck that option and take the trouble to check for updates manually, go through the changelog first and then click on "update" if suitably impressed - not just for FF, but for almost every software including Windows itself.I seriously wanna keep using Firefox, so Palemoon - here I come.BTW, the non-updaters - just install a software updater like SUmo or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 W00000W, finally silent updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . over my dead body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 18, 2012 Administrator Share Posted March 18, 2012 I'm guessing it will be opt-out. Lets see how they implement it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirri Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 good to hear but will they add another .EXE to implement ? like Chrome (Google.EXE). It means more RAM right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 19, 2012 Administrator Share Posted March 19, 2012 good to hear but will they add another .EXE to implement ? like Chrome (Google.EXE). It means more RAM right ? As far as I can understand, yes, it will run as a service. The reason is, that's the only way they can automatically install updates on Vista and 7, otherwise UAC will keep blocking/nagging it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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