The fact that Firefox now pops up a dialog box each time I launch a fresh window informing me that an update is available, when I have in fact been offline for days is frustrating. First off, it doesn’t know for a fact that an update is available and on one occasion when I went online…there wasn’t one, so it shouldn’t be popping up, and secondly, there is nowhere in settings that allows me to either disable the popup or the set to manually check for updates without a fanfare!
Quite often I use Firefox offline more than I do online, and clearly there is an assumption that everyone is always online. Yes reminders can be helpful, but information should only be put forward when in fact there is something definite to offer, not because it was programmed according to a timer and certainly not multiple times a day shortly after a fresh browser is launched, which quickly becomes distracting, frustrating and a waste of time, and there is already more than enough of that in the world these days.
