[citation][nom]phatboe[/nom]It's official, I just made Opera my default web browser. I am sick of Mozilla trying to be Chrome. Had I wanted FF to be more like Chrome I would have downloaded Chrome.[/citation]
Good luck with that. I left Opera, which I've used since the beginning when I had to pay for it, because they gave up fixing bugs and improving introduced new features to change the interface to look like Chrome, to engage in pointless speed duels with Chrome, and add unneeded extensions to be like FireFox. Even an Opera dev joked that they should strip out all of their features and reintroduce them as plugins.
Firefox isn't trying to be Chrome. It's trying to deal with all of the people endlessly complaining (see ZDNet, any post about Firefox) about having to manually update Firefox. Now they'll have to deal withh all of the people (see Toms Hardware, this post) complaining about NOT having to manually update Firefox. This is why one dev suggested they simply start hiding the version number (and then both sides complained about that). Meanwhile, Firefox isn't going to be doing anything that Google isn't already doing and Microsoft isn't about to do, but they're still the only ones who catch heat for it. It's insane
If you don't want silent updates, switch to Linux where you have control of everything. That's also what I tell the people who are complaining about needing to manually update, because Linux can also take care of that.