February 15, 2006
Posted by beltzner
Many thanks to the people who answered my [request for feedback about the Firefox 1.5.0.1 automatic update][1] experience, we’ve started to track several issues down to ensure that things are better for the Firefox 1.5.0.2 update (for examples, see bugs [325561][2] and [325341][3] which were common causes of failure for partial updates.) We’re still investigating [...]
February 12, 2006
Posted by beltzner
Work has been getting busier and busier as Mozilla rounds the corner on its first automatic update, struggles with some corporate growing pains, and starts into the straightaway that leads to Firefox 2. Sure, there’s been long hours, but I like my job, and at least I don’t [work with a bunch of monkeys][1]. I [...]
February 10, 2006
Posted by beltzner
As [Ben points out][1], the schedule that got [Dugg][2] earlier this week hadn’t been kept up to date (it _does_ say “Draft” [right on the label][3]) and erroneously lists today as the ship date for Firefox 2 Alpha 1. That’s my fault, mostly, as I’d suspected that we might miss the date, and should have [...]
February 2, 2006
Posted by beltzner
[Firefox 1.5.0.1][1] was released last night at around 2pm EST. There’s [no longer a need to download][2] the entire installer, though, thanks to our new Software Update system. In fact, assuming you’re not the type to twiddle with preferences, all of this should happen automagically.
I’m curious to know what people thought of the automatic update [...]
