Bravo Microsoft – you have proved your point!

December 8 and yet another update pushed out to (Cr)Edge! The morning routine seems to be open up the computer, allow the update to process while you fetch a cup of coffee.

Good that Microsoft is now able to update their browser (and soon other parts as discussed in WW#701) but do they really have to do that daily!?! Is “ship early, patch daily” the new mantra?

Conversation 4 comments

  • Usman

    Premium Member
    08 December, 2020 - 2:33 am

    <p>Chrome has done that too, so have numerous electron based apps like slack, discord, teams, vs code etc. </p><p><br></p><p>I do wonder what pc you're running if a chrome update takes a while. These are pretty silent updates. </p><p><br></p><p>Usually these occur in the background and apply when you next launch a chromium browser. </p>

    • matsan

      08 December, 2020 - 3:31 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#598462">In reply to Usman:</a></em></blockquote><p>In these pandemic times we are working from our rural homestead over LTE connection. I have thus disabled all automatic updates and ask them to prompt before downloading the daily Edge update or a 11GB xCode update…</p>

      • Usman

        Premium Member
        08 December, 2020 - 8:05 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#598462">In reply to Usman:</a></em></blockquote><p>In these pandemic times we are working from our rural homestead over LTE connection. I have thus disabled all automatic updates and ask them to prompt before downloading the daily Edge update or a 11GB xCode update…</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Sorry about not fully understanding the situation. Those definitely are problematic, I know Chrome had fixed version downloads, I wonder if that capability is still around in Edge and other Chromium based browsers.</p><p><br></p><p>it's becoming quite a problem across the board with every software and just modern software engineering of constant updating software.</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      08 December, 2020 - 3:47 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#598462">In reply to Usman:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yes, on mine, it does the update in the background and if I don't restart Edge within a couple of days, it will notify me on the menu button that there is an update and I really should restart the browser, Firefox as well.</p><p>When I do restart, it takes less than 10 seconds, certainly not enough time to get a coffee.</p><p>The updates are also usually every 4 – 6 weeks, plus out-of-cycle for flaws that are being actively exploited.</p>

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