DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates

Posted Jul 16, 2012 16:57 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates by arafel
Parent article: DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates

Given that Chrome is the browser that started the rapid release process for browsers, anyone moving from Firefox to Chrome because they don't like rapid releases just doesn't know what they are doing.

DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates

Posted Jul 17, 2012 11:28 UTC (Tue) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link] (2 responses)

If they move because they object to the principle of rapid updates, sure, I'd agree.

If they move because they have no problem with the principle of rapid updates, but they do dislike being asked to restart Firefox every 6 weeks, at which time your extensions may or may not work, then no, I'd say they know exactly what they're doing.

DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates

Posted Jul 18, 2012 18:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Precisely. I've been running bleeding-edge dev Chrome for a year now, with a dozen extensions, and in all that time not a single one of them has broken. One cannot say the same for Firefox.

DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates

Posted Jul 18, 2012 18:48 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

actually, I suspect that people can say the same, depending on what extensions they are using.

If they are using extensions that stick the the extensions SDK, I expect that they will have had no problems.

However, the Firefox extension mechanism includes the ability to go beyond what the SDK provides (and what Chrome provides) and get into the internals of Firefox. Extensions that do that will be far more likely to have problems, but it also means that they can do things that would be impossible in Chrome.

The state of noscript/adblock type extensions in Chrome compared to Firefox is a good example of where Firefox is better. I've been running bleeding-edge dev Firefox (aurora) for about a year now, with noscript and have not had any problems with it. the noscript developers do things beyond the SDK, but they are careful about it and so do not get broken with upgrades.