Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking and my consent

Re:Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking... by melling on Saturday July 28, 2012 @05:19PM (#4306546)

I have worked in that type of environment so let me clear something up for you. It's your own damn fault! The code could have been tested on Mozilla at the same time, for example. I was there when people wrote that crap and people felt that running in IE was good enough. Companies should always have been taking the approach that a web browser isn't simply an app from Microsoft.

You either pay a little up front or a lot later. Time to pay up and fix that legacy code that no one wants to touch.

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Re:Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking... by romnempire on Saturday July 28, 2012 @05:38PM (#4306594)

right, so people in the past are able to predict the future of software markets and sysadmins have complete control over where a company's development resources go. okay, got it.

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Re:Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking... by melling on Saturday July 28, 2012 @06:06PM (#4306666)

You are generalizing quite a bit here. We are specifically talking about web browsers. Plenty of developers stuck with Netscape then Mozilla and wanted to support them. And sysadmins have lots of control at some level. "We can only support browser X, but not browser Y. As a firm we only support IE". Anyway, good luck getting off of XP and those old IE's. The rest of the world is moving on. When IE10 comes out, I'll email the link to my mom, etc and they'll be upgraded in minutes. Corporate America? Well, there are a lot of overpaid people working on it.

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