Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on June 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

Mozilla finally plans on unleashing the Firefox 2 upgrade onto all Firefox 1.5.0.12 users. Starting later today, and continuing for the first few weeks, the upgrade will only be available for those people using 1.5.0.12 that are also on the "beta" channel. When the update pops up it will look something like this:

As you can see when I was testing it I had extensions installed that were not compatible with Firefox 2. I did that on purpose because I wanted to see if it would notify the user before proceeding with the upgrade. Here is what happens during the rest of the upgrade process:

• If a user selects “Later”, they will be prompted again in approximately 24 hours.
• If a user selects “Never”, they are opting to skip this offer to upgrade and will not be prompted again for this particular release (2.0.0.4). If Mozilla decides to offer a 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.5 major upgrade, the user will be prompted again with that new offer.
• If a user selects “Get the new version”, they will be asked to accept the revised End User License Agreement (EULA) for Firefox 2 in order to proceed with the upgrade. The major update will then be downloaded and the browser restarted with Firefox 2.0.0.4 as the current version.

I’m really excited to see that this is finally happening after Mozilla stated that nearly 40% of their users had not upgraded to Firefox 2. That number astounded me because I expected it to be in the 10% to 15% range, but I was obviously pretty far off. Of course I also think that Mozilla should have been pushing users to upgrade several months ago, instead of 7-months after-the-fact.

Source: Mozilla Developer News

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