Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater

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.

If you're tired

[arcite]

I could do a few rounds with her for you.

Talk about inflation!

[Anonymous Coward]

So then we will stop getting a post about it every 6 weeks? If version numbers don't matter like Asa claims then why such a big fuss and fanfare over their ridiculous version inflation?

You tell'em Desler!

Why in my day, you could get the most up to date software for less than 1.0! And you still had features leftover! Now, what does a 1.0 version get ya?! Nuth'in! You got to go all the way up to version 12!

This is all because we're off of the "Gold standard". You see, back in my day, software wasn't released until it was Gold.And we got an update once every two years - and we liked it! And I had to walk, uphill both ways!, to get all those floppies to stick in. An update took a better part of a day and if started snowing, well, we updated in the snow! And liked it!

And when we did it, we listened to good ole Rock&Roll music; none of the BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM talking about nonsense over a drum beat! We had a melody! Wailing guitars! And solos that's grow hair on your chest! And the songs were about cool things too!

I'm outta breath, now. This Gerotol stuff is great! I'm on my second bottle of the day here - gotta keep me strong!

Re:What's best

[ClioCJS]

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

Re:Finally

[sexconker]

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!

Re:What's best

[pla]

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.

Re:What's best

[kryliss]

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

Re:What's best

[Anonymous Coward]

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