I like the Firefox browser as much as any web-savvy geek, but I have one quibble with it: The patchless-upgrade process.

I began with a pre-lease version of Firefox, upgraded to 1.0, then downloaded and installed the bug/security-fix releases 1.01 and 1.02. While it’s not biggie for me with a fast connection, it is problematic that one has to download a ~4.5M upgrade for each point release.

It’s a full install each time (which does keep one’s preferences and so on, so that’s good).

That’s a pain.

I’m guessing the reasoning is to completely replace the older (broken in some way) engine and get the new one installed, instead of band-aid patches that will leave the browser more brittle. I’m OK with that, but I this may keep folks from upgrading in more timely manner, especially the dial-up folks.