gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » firefox extension updates http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Automatically Install Firefox Add-on Updateshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/28/automatically-install-firefox-add-on-updates/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/28/automatically-install-firefox-add-on-updates/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:28:10 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10185 One of the most annoying aspects of the Firefox web browser is the way add-ons are updated in the browser. Firefox will display that an update for an installed add-on has been released. It takes a couple if clicks and a browser restart to install the Firefox add-on. Especially having to press the button Continue after the installation has been heavily criticized as there are no other options in that dialog.

Update Notifier (via Cybernet News) automates the process by removing the user input from add-on update installations. The add-on can be configured to automatically check for Firefox add-on updates and install those add-ons automatically without user interaction. This includes an automatic restart of Firefox after downloading and installing the add-on updates.

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Update Notifier comes with a few additional settings like configuring the check interval or displaying update notifications in the Firefox status bar. The Firefox add-on takes another burden away from Firefox users who can use the add-on to automatically update add-ons in Firefox without user interaction.

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