From InfoWorld: Mozilla is preparing nearly-silent upgrades to get customers stuck on older versions of Firefox onto the newest edition, according to notes on the company's website and its bug-tracking database.
The plan is to start upgrading older Windows editions beginning with the next stable release, Firefox 30, which is slated to ship June 10.
"In the next weeks we will [be] implementing a project to get users on older versions of Firefox back onto the latest version," said Benjamin Smedberg on a Mozilla developers planning discussion thread. "We've confirmed ... that about 2% of Firefox profiles are getting 'stuck' on older versions in each release cycle, at least back to Firefox 22."
On his LinkedIn profile, Smedberg identifies himself as a Mozilla engineering manager.
Smedberg said that Mozilla didn't know why some of its users continue to run outdated versions of Firefox. But with Firefox's background update mechanism, those users had to have explicitly switched off or at least restricted updates.
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