{"id":48,"date":"2010-06-30T00:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=48"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:22:28","slug":"upgrade-upgrade-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade upgrade upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just don’t get it. How every software package<\/strong> can be so annoying and pop up a window<\/strong> after a window after a window about<\/strong> so great oh and dooh new version of it<\/strong>. How can we – users even cope with it? Security? Come on! Can’t OS handle it some how? While using Ubuntu for the last decade I got so pampered with upgrades (everything gets updated with one click and it can be even automatized) that it now annoys me even more. <\/p>\n

Recently (Friday – 4 days ago) Firefox<\/strong> wanted to be upgraded. I was in the middle of a task and clicked on "Remind me later"<\/em>. I haven’t been using my laptop for 4 days and today I got the same annoying window. I decided to upgrade from a version 3.6.X<\/strong> (I have no idea which) to 3.6.4<\/strong>. After Firefox restarted it greeted me with this windows:<\/p>\n

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It was a surprise to greet me with a recommendation for a new upgrade<\/strong>! Haven’t I just decided to upgrade and upgraded it and it restarted the whole browser? And now I have to do it once more?<\/strong> I clicked on the link and a new page withe the latest version 3.6.6<\/strong> showed up. Can it get more annoying. <\/p>\n

Yes! Firefox never checks if my plug-ins are going to be compatible with a new version upfront<\/strong>. I would appreciate if it would tell me in advance which plug-ins are not going to work (although I remember it once doing it). Right now I ended up with a few non compatible plug-ins. But at least they wont crush my browser anymore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

PS: I do like FF. I do like its extensibility. I do like the philosophy behind it. I do understand why it is important to upgrade with latest security patches. But since Aza<\/a> is in charge of its usability I would expect better. ….. And I understand that Linux distributions have software repositories. And that OS X has AppFresh  (or similar software) but it just isn’t the same user experience.<\/p>\n

PSS: Windows 8 will supposedly have a repository of software<\/a> as well (App store kind) which might be a good or a bad thing (forcing developers to stick to their rules)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just don’t get it. How every software package can be so annoying and pop up a window after a window after a window about so great oh and dooh new version of it. How can we – users even cope with it? Security? Come on! Can’t OS handle it some how? While using Ubuntu...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}