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To: CarolinaReaganFan

Are there people who still do not auto-update their OS and Browser?

How foolish.

One day they will pay a very high price.


8 posted on 01/11/2020 9:10:50 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
Are there people who still do not auto-update their OS and Browser?

Updates break things. It's been that way since the old unofficial Microsoft motto: "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run"

Firefox updates generally have one (or both) of two purposes - break third party ad and script blockers or add undesired "features". I tolerated the pain of Firefox updates as long as they were well spaced - every 6 months or so as I recall. Then they went to near constant updates - it was too time consuming to have to fix stuff that was being broken on a weekly basis. Back to operating systems: How many Script Kiddies bother with trying to hurt XP users these days. Win7 users will soon enjoy the same benefits.

25 posted on 01/11/2020 10:26:14 AM PST by PAR35
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We live in a world where updates can and do break things and make it even worse. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Nothing like updating a website script only to find out that now half your plugin modules have been depreciated and it destroys your website causing a couple of weeks of work to get it back on line.


36 posted on 01/12/2020 4:10:29 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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