However, the update or upgrade is not installed until the browser is next restarted. Much like rivals, including Chrome and Edge, Firefox looks for pending updates and upgrades when it's launched, even downloads them in the background. Since Alexander's initial post, the background update has been baked into Firefox Nightly.Ĭurrently, Firefox updates itself only when the browser is running. previously reported on the upcoming change to Firefox. will schedule OS-level tasks that run periodically these tasks invoke Firefox in a stripped-down headless 'background task mode' that pumps the update cycle before exiting," Alexander wrote in the April 12 post. "Updates when Firefox is not running work as follows: the default Firefox profile. In an April post to the browser's development forum, Nick Alexander, a software engineer, described the new mechanism being added to the Nightly build channel for Windows. More recently, Mozilla outlined a new background updating process for Firefox. As of May 5, the new upgrade process was included in Edge Dev, version 92 (but not the more stable Edge Beta, version 91).īottom line? The earliest this Edge upgrade process could reach Macs would be version 92, slated to debut on July 22. When Zhang penned her post, the functionality had been added to Edge Dev, version 91. Microsoft did not say when the new Mac update scheme would go public in the production-quality version of Edge, designated as Stable. In other words, current processes in managed environments will continue to receive all Edge updates via established IT-directed channels, like Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Windows Update for Business (WUfB) and Endpoint Manager's Intune and Configuration Manager.
Gone will be the delay while the user watches the download occur before a restart is possible.Įnterprise users of Edge, said Zhang, would not see the new upgrade behavior nor would Windows users of the browser. "When you restart the browser when an update is available, your browser will now instantly relaunch with the updated version rather than wait for update to be applied," Zhang said. Transitioning from one Edge to the next - a process that will accelerate to an every-four-week cadence this fall - will also be slightly more graceful. Microsoft Edge's current upgrade mechanism is AutoUpdate, which also handles Office applications like Excel. (On Windows devices, Edge is serviced by Windows Update, as are all Microsoft products.) Microsoft On unmanaged PCs - those not under the control of an IT administrator - Microsoft now upgrades Edge from one version to another using a tool named Microsoft AutoUpdate, long used to service macOS Office applications like Word, Excel and Outlook.
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