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Google's Chrome has used automatic, in-the-background updates since its September 2008 debut.

Implementing silent updating would make Firefox only the second browser to offer the feature. At one point, it thought it could add the feature to Firefox 4, which shipped in March 2011, but abandoned work when that version was delayed several times for other reasons.

Mozilla has been working on silent updating for more than a year.

If all parts of silent update don't make it into Firefox 10, the next available release dates would be March 13 for Firefox 11, and April 24 for Firefox 12. Some pieces, however, have already appeared in release versions - Firefox 8 implemented a pair of peripheral components - while others may not land in the browser until after Firefox 10.įor example, the sidestepping of Windows Vista's and Windows 7's UAC prompts is currently 'at risk' for making it into Firefox 10, although notes from a status meeting Mozilla held this week indicate that the feature should wrap up this week and move to testing. Other pieces to the silent update puzzle include installing a Windows service so an update doesn't trigger a UAC (user account control) prompt message and setting all add-ons as compatible by default, again so that Firefox doesn't display a warning message.Īccording to information on the Mozilla website, the current goal for most of the multi-part project remains Firefox 10, slated to ship Jan. To do so, he's come up with a way to stage the downloaded update - essentially an updated copy of Firefox - in a separate Windows directory, then swap the older edition with the newer one the next time the user starts up Firefox. Akhgari's part of the project is to minimize the amount of time it takes Firefox to launch after downloading an update.

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