https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/enSat, 13 Apr 2019 21:03:24 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/blake/tech/windows/monthone/Blake Winton<div><p>So, itʼs been a couple of weeks, and thought I might write a few notes on how itʼs been going…</p> <p><img alt="Laptop, now all stickered up…" src="https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/images/blake/Stickers.jpg"></p> <p><a href="https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/blake/tech/windows/monthone/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>movingupdatewindowshttps://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/blake/tech/windows/monthone/Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:07:00 GMThttps://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/blake/tech/thunderbird/updates/Blake Winton<div><p>Add-ons are an important part of many Mozilla products, and many people have noticed that they’ve taken a hit as we’ve switched to the Rapid Release process. To help users have a little more control over how well their Firefox works, I would like to propose the following slight modification to the automatic Update process:</p> <p>It all starts when Firefox (and Thunderbird) notice an update is available.</p> <p>We immediately check the user’s add-ons to see if they are compatible, or if there are compatible versions we haven’t downloaded yet.</p> <p>If all the add-ons are compatible (or will be made so at the next download), we show the NoAddons dialog:</p> <p><img alt="NoAddons dialog" src="https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/images/blake/updates/NoAddons.png"></p> <p>It‘s the same as the current Firefox or Thunderbird update dialog, and as you would expect, the “Ask Later” and “Update Firefox” buttons do the same things that they do now.</p> <p>On the other hand, if there <em>are</em> in-compatible add-ons, we show the Addons dialog:</p> <p><img alt="Addons dialog" src="https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/images/blake/updates/Addons.png"></p> <p>As you can see, we let the user know which add-ons are incompatible, and give the user an extra button at the bottom to do something different.</p> <p>The new “Update when my add-ons work” button (wording to be clarified later) will check the add-ons periodically, and automatically update Firefox when all the add-ons are compatible. If the add-ons aren’t compatible after a week (period of time to be configurable), the user will be shown this dialog again, with the (hopefully smaller) list of incompatible add-ons.</p> <p>Showing the user which add-ons are incompatible will let them decide whether the add-ons are important enough to not upgrade, or whether they can live with the (hopefully short) period of reduced functionality.</p> <p>As always, comments welcome, but keep them polite or they’ll be deleted.</p></div>add-onsfirefoxmozillathunderbirdupdatehttps://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/blake/tech/thunderbird/updates/Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:49:44 GMT