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TallyMan
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24 Jul 2010, 10:15 am

Anyone know why the flood of updates for Firefox? This must be the third within three weeks.


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24 Jul 2010, 10:36 am

All I know is that there was news of a tab hijacker recently. It could recognize which open tabs hadn't been looked at for a while and change the websites on those tabs



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24 Jul 2010, 10:36 am

I had two in as many days and each time it reset my browser choice to Internet Explorer.



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24 Jul 2010, 10:40 am

It's just Skynet trying to take over our PCs...


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24 Jul 2010, 10:50 am

Mozilla changed their update structure recently: they're going to do more small updates, fewer massive updates. This keeps everything from breaking at once and gets new features and improvements out faster, but it also means you have to update all the time.


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24 Jul 2010, 11:00 am

Orwell wrote:
Mozilla changed their update structure recently: they're going to do more small updates, fewer massive updates. This keeps everything from breaking at once and gets new features and improvements out faster, but it also means you have to update all the time.


Thanks for the update on the updates. :) I was wondering if something weird was going on. I am barely computer literate so it helps to know.



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25 Jul 2010, 7:03 pm

Orwell wrote:
Mozilla changed their update structure recently: they're going to do more small updates, fewer massive updates.
I don't visit Ars Tecnica anymore, I just browse WP to get my nerd/techie fix =P


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26 Jul 2010, 3:51 pm

computerlove wrote:
I don't visit Ars Tec[h]nica anymore, I just browse WP to get my nerd/techie fix =P

Hehe, I'm starting to feel the same way. 8)



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26 Jul 2010, 11:03 pm

=P


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