[Mozilla Enterprise] New 68 feature: BITS update downloading

[Nick Boyce]

On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 13:48, Jim Mathies <jmathies at mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:39 AM Nick Boyce <nick.boyce at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 23:00, Jim Mathies <jmathies at mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Currently Firefox updates by downloading
>> > update files internally while Firefox is running. We've added
>> > support for downloading via the Windows BITS service in 68.
>> [...]
>> I'd be very interested if there's anything you can say as to *why*
>> Mozilla is doing this.  Why not just continue with the Mozilla
>> home-baked mechanism
>
> This will allow us to cut down on the prompting we currently
> do to do updates, which we get regular negative feedback on

Okay, sounds good - we all like software that just automagically does
The Right Thing without bothering us with questions, though I'd have
assumed the home-grown update mechanism could be similarly modified.

> and it will keep installed  versions of Firefox that haven't
> been opened by the user in a while fully up to date and safe.

Ahaa - anything that might eliminate those pesky offers from FF to
"reset" itself because "It looks like you haven't started Firefox for
a while" is fine with me :-).

I shall just hope that the randomly-notice-update-availability issue
is also improved by this project.

Thanks.

Nick Boyce