| I never ever enable automatic updates however Firefox updated itself through my Earthlink dialup. So that's why The Tubes have been slow to drain lately. I did not realize until quite a long time after the invisible install, and only then because a very subtly UI element appeared. I was overcome with rage: I download all updates by hand then neatly archive them on a server: Installers/Windows/
Installers/Windows/Security_Updates
Installers/Windows/Security_Updates/Win2k
Installers/Windows/Security_Updates/WinXP
Installers/Windows/Service_Packs
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Installers/Mac_OS_X/
Installers/Mac_OS_X/TenFourFox
TenFourFox is a build for Tiger and PowerPC. I use it on my Mom's G4 iMac,mwhich is mint condition. Mom doesn't see the point of buying a new Mac, and frankly I agree with her.I downloaded all her patches at Starbucks until Apple stopped issuing them. Now I have multiple offsite backups of thousands of installers and patches for many different platforms - even BeOS DR8! My most-serious gripe with Firefox's unwanted, uh, "upgrade" is that I required for solid hours of struggle to figure out where the UI for a business-critical Add-On was. It turns out that Mozilla "deprecated" what I regard as the "status bar". Silly Wabbit! Usability Testing is for kids! It's actually called the Add-On Bar. Once I manger to turn that fact up under some cobblestone, I quickly found a thread in which many, many Add-Onmusers also desperately struggled but a Mozilla employee set them straight. Much like AT&T with the cell signal they eliminated from my neighborhood one fine July night in 2010: We Don't Care.
We Don't Have To.
We're The Phone Company.
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