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There are disadvantages to constant, automatic updates.

I had a call from someone who'd been using Chrome to regularly print a web page, and one day it just stopped working. The site hadn't changed, but for whatever reason the latest version of Chrome just didn't render it. And of course trying to install an older version of Chrome was quite difficult.

(In Google's case they do now have a way to disable the updates, but not all software is so good about it)

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As frustrating as it is, this is the sort of thing that results in massive corporations stuck on IE6.

I experienced this yesterday. My website renders differently now than it used to on Chrome last month. Firefox and IE still look "correct". I used to think the auto-update feature on Chrome was great, but now I'm not sure. I can see why some companies still stick to IE 6 internally. It's stable.

Please consider reporting the bug so that we can fix the problem:

https://bugs.webkit.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=WebKit

We have a large number of tests, but sometimes we miss things. :(

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