
To skirt the lag time in the current updating process, the Firefox team is considering a “silent” alternative. While all that is happening, you’re twiddling your thumbs watching a progress bar on your computer screen. That program downloads the update, applies it to Firefox, and restarts the browser. As a way to speed up the process of updating Firefox, Mozilla engineers are mulling over a silent update feature, which one security expert argues is a bad idea.Ĭurrently, when Firefox detects an available update, it lets you know and if you agree to install it, the browser launches its updater program.
