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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:26:41PM -0600,
Chad McWilliams blabbed on about:
> 
> I'll preface this with saying I haven't had the time to play with Firefox in
> a while.  So, does Firefox have the ability to download it's security
> updates and install them automatically without user interaction?

To my knowledge, no.  You need at least 2 mouse clicks.  And in my opinion,
nor should it.  DOWNLOADING updates is one thing that I don't mind being
done automatically.  INSTALLING them is.

> This a problem we have with using something other than IE.  We have over 100
> machines throughout 5 states. Having to remote into each machine and do
> updates on various programs is tough to do for our undersized IT department.
> Most of the users don't have the privileges necessary to install the
> updates, nor would I leave it up to them anyway, as most wouldn't do it.  At
> least with IE, it gets automatically updates by the Microsoft Update
> program.

While I can respect and understand your department being strapped, all I
can say is, "Security updates are part of the job."  This applies to anyone
in IT.

And yup, with IE, you get updates automatically.  Even ones that don't fix
the problems or create more problems than previously existed.  Certainly.  

At least with Firefox, you only have to restart the -browser- after a
patch, instead of the whole OS.  I can't count how many IE patches I've
received that require a system reboot.  Mostly this is because the browser
and OS are too tightly bound.

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