Firefox 10 will receive a "silent" update mode

In the official Mozilla blog, one of the development engineers, Ehsan Akhgari, described the following problem of his browser: when the update for Firefox becomes available, it is downloaded in the background process, copied to the browser folder, the next time the program starts, the updater program , which expands the update files and only after that the new version of the browser is ready to start. All this happens in full view of the user, who has to wait until the updater finishes its work, instead of allowing the user to continue working.

In this regard, Ahgari announced a new update mode, which is likely to appear in the 10th version of Firefox in early 2012. All these processes will occur without the participation of any windows, unnoticed by the user. So, as does the closest competitor Firefox - browser Google Chrome.

In this direction, quite significant steps have already been taken, and those who wish to help with testing the new feature can download the “night” assembly from here . For testing, it is enough to start the update process (for now manually) and, if everything goes well, the next time you start the browser, its version should be updated to a more current one.
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