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No time to upgrade but they time to fill out a survey? I don't get that. Maybe a prediction of how long an update will take. People might think they need to reboot their machine.

I also wonder how many of the people who didn't upgrade and didn't fill out the survey would have said "no time".

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It would also help if they prompted for permission at the end of users' sessions, not at the start. No relaunch necessary and users don't have to wait for an update to install before they can start browsing.

That doesn't seem feasible, most people (that I know) leave FF running all the time; or if they do close it the last thing they want is the application taking even longer to shut down because it wants to ask about running some updates. Think about the scene from Office Space.

Nagging people while they're trying to do stuff obviously isn't ideal either. So as just about everyone has mentioned: Chrome's silent updates are a big win for convenience. Because should the average user really have to think about keeping their software up to date?

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