Silent Update not now prompt: Difference between revisions

1) Mozilla wants to continue to stand by our mission of user sovereignty and choice.  Forcing users to update doesn't offer them this choice.

2) Although our goal of updating users is primarily around ensuring a safe, secure web browsing experience, some users are comfortable making the trade-off of not being secure for functionality that is important to them.  If we force an update and break certain functionality that defines their web experience, we may push them away from Firefox all together.  The end result may be users who a) leave Firefox for Chrome/Safari/IE and b) continue to be insecure (threat to others and themselves without knowing it) because they need and expect the functionality the Add-on previously offered them.

|Feature requirements=Leveraging the new changes to the Add-on compatibility checker, Firefox will create a new dialog showing users all (if there are any) unsupported Add-ons