What's up with Firefox new version everyday??

[mikeymikec]

since ddrs i have never had a single problem with memory incompatibility, and buying second hand means usually you can sell them for almost the same price

I've done at least 150 memory upgrades since DDR was introduced, and I stopped using just anything apart from Kingston/Crucial because of compatibility issues. Since then, I may have had to return one or two DOA modules, but apart from that no problems.

It may be the case that say 10% of the time one might expect a compatibility issue, perhaps less due to there being less chipsets around these days and that processors have their own memory controllers rather than the north bridge chipset, but in my line of work, why risk the time wasted in testing and dealing with an incompatible return.

 

[mikeymikec]

I don't use IE at all, and yes, I don't install IE patches from Windows update. From my experience Firefox is secure enough that I don't need to constantly keep updating it.

Do you realise than many applications use IE's HTML rendering engine and its image filters?

Presumably you have Windows Update not set to auto then, ok, if you like taking unnecessary risks.

 

[Munky]

Do you realise than many applications use IE's HTML rendering engine and its image filters?

Presumably you have Windows Update not set to auto then, ok, if you like taking unnecessary risks.

Like what applications? I'm picky about my applications too, it's not like I'm using Windows Media Player to view online content.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I'd say it's dangerous not to install IE patches even if you don't use it because something can still compromise your system.

I don't use IE at all, and yes, I don't install IE patches from Windows update. From my experience Firefox is secure enough that I don't need to constantly keep updating it.

 

[mikeymikec]

Like what applications? I'm picky about my applications too, it's not like I'm using Windows Media Player to view online content.

I would suspect any app that shows a web page (P2P apps typically have a page that shows you content from a web page) of using Windows to render content. An office document that shows on-line content is another possibility. It might be something completely unexpected like Winamp's window that pops up telling you that there's an update available, or Skype's window showing contact information, or "Windows Live Today". Perhaps a printer driver's window showing you offers on cartridges. Lots of things.

The only ones I think I would safely rule out that definitely show web page content are ones like iTunes, because I know that Apple developers would rather gnaw their own limbs off than use IE to render content

Think of it like this - if a software developer wants to show you a web page, and for some reason they want to do it as part of a window in their software rather than launching your default browser, why would they spend the time trying to render the content themselves or include a cut-down version of Firefox (like TomTomHOME does) to do the job. If the page they show you is their website, and it includes an advertising banner (or their site has been hacked cleverly), you just got owned.

Also factor in the amount of lame bits of software which are hard-coded to fire up IE even though it's not the default browser.

I don't know about you, but I've got better things to do than scrutinise the (non-optional) Windows Update list every time another load comes in. The last time that I got screwed by a Windows update was Office 2007 SP3, and that's because I had two versions of Access on my machine. Before that, I can't remember it ever happening, nor can I remember anyone I know having a problem with a Windows update, except for one guy who had a crappy Internet security suite which would block IE in its firewall config every time there was an IE security update. I replaced the security software when it did it on more than one occasion.

AFAIK the last time MS got caught trying to put on an update in an not-quite-100%-honest-reason was a .net framework plug-in for Firefox, listed as a critical update, but it rarely happens.

 

[gmaster456]

Bottom line: Install the damn updates. Seriously, there are very few logical reasons not to. Not updating is gonna come to bite you in the ass someday just because you were too smug to install a simple IE update.