FF2 to FF3 Update Popup

The Firefox 3 prompted update switch seems to have just been flicked.

It’ll be interesting to see how this impacts the release penetration. My only thought when I saw this was that it looks like a phishing scam. People who know less, have been trained to not click on random popups that appear online. I suspect there will be quiet a few people who just close this window and go about their business. I also wonder how long it will be before we see phishing scams that duplicate this popup. I didn’t really see anything that I don’t think could be faked in a regular html popup. It’s a shame Firefox doesn’t have something that is more solidly native looking. Might be worth considering for future updates.

Some updates:

John O’Duinn has posted some very impressive stats for the last 6 hours…

Now, with throttling off for the last 3 hours, we’re picking up the pace, doing 7095 major updates *per minute*. Thats 118 major updates *per second*.