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What happens when the latest version is not the greatest? With automatic updates you don't get to decide when to upgrade and you usually have no way back.

See the latest version of Skype. Google chrome also had a few less-than-perfect versions (for OS X, at least).

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Autoupdate is a responsibility that application developers should take seriously. If the latest version is not better than the previous for users, they will leave. That is as it should be.

The user interface for FF4 sucks, I had to uninstall it and re-download FF3.6. Most of the differences were merely irritating - like the right click menu changing the places of Open in New Tab and Open in New Window, which was totally stupid, but I could have gotten used to that. The one change I could not do without and could find no way to restore was their eliminating the Recent Pages button - some sites take forever to click back through with the Back button alone.

Click and hold on the back button brings up the list. This works in chrome too.

Right-clicking on the back/forward buttons also works, as it did in Firefox 3.6.

I wish Chrome supported middle-clicking to open a previous page in a new tab.

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