Firefox 27 Released

Re:Firefox 27 Released by zebulom on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @01:06PM (#7179150)

Then Mozilla Thunderbird, then TortoiseGit, then TortoitseSVN, then Sublime Text Editor, then Notepad++, then Notepad++ informs me there is an update of a plugin that I never use, then VLC media player, then Google Chrome, then Oracle VirtualBox, then Visual Studio proudly announces a service pack, then Windows informs me that it wants to reboot in 10 minutes.

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by robertfw on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:08PM (#7179927)

That is annoying! And one of the many reasons I am happy to have switched to Linux.

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by kybernetikos on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:18PM (#7179986)

I strongly dislike the fact that almost every single piece of software wants to also install some kind of always running service to manage updates. It should be an OS hook that programs can use when they are first installed, and can be completely managed by the user if they care.

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by JetSpiegel on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @04:44PM (#7180446)

Like some kind of package manager?

On Windows? Good luck with that!

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by duggelz on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @12:32AM (#7182079)

If you run windows and don't use Ninite yet, let me make your day:

https://ninite.com/updater/

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by jlgaddis on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @05:16PM (#7187232)

http://chocolatey.org/

Open up a command prompt ...

  C:\> cup

... and done.

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by JetSpiegel on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:58AM (#7191347)

Ninite has an updater?

You made my day right now.

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by jlgaddis on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @05:15PM (#7187226)

I have a Windows 7 PC but it is only used perhaps once every week or two (and usually for just a few minutes at a time). It's certainly not the best tool I've ever seen but Chocolatey [0] makes keeping (nearly all) my installed applications up-to-date very easy.

[0]: http://chocolatey.org/

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by MrBra on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @12:03AM (#7181975)

Then Avast Antivirus pops up and says your software update status is critical! Do something or let me manage it for you (pay me) !

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by g4k on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @02:56PM (#7179881)

get a mac

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Re:Firefox 27 Released by MrBra on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @12:23AM (#7182048)

Yea, get a mac just for that. Oh and please just forget that all present *nix based distros will have a similar, if not better, update manager.

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