Oh, so you wanted to SSH over your GSM tethered connection? Here, take this chrome update too! Don't mind that you'll never get it down this session.
Also if you don't restart your computer you probably won't restart chrome either => no updates.
Yes, chrome is probably more efficient but we truly need a way to signal that this connection is slow/expensive so don't do any heavy updates on it. Especially when we have no way of saying that we aren't interested in an update and don't care about any security issues within an application that won't be executed anyway.
A friend of mine had a bad experience with steam which ate his 1 GB monthly quota in mere minutes (internet was down so he used his phone instead, didn't think much about having steam running in the background).
Hopefully app stores will be in charge of updates. I don't feel like having a separate update service for every application running all the time.
Quotas are definitely a problem but I disagree with your complaint about not restarting: Chrome has UI badges (and will eventually prompt) for pending updates. This is about as good as you can get short of forcing the user to restart.
And windows update have balloon tooltips and an icon to inform me that an update is available... I update chrome and windows the exact same way. I get informed of an update and when I'm ready I let it proceed (yet I have no control over when chrome downloads an update).
Oh, so you wanted to SSH over your GSM tethered connection? Here, take this chrome update too! Don't mind that you'll never get it down this session.
Also if you don't restart your computer you probably won't restart chrome either => no updates.
Yes, chrome is probably more efficient but we truly need a way to signal that this connection is slow/expensive so don't do any heavy updates on it. Especially when we have no way of saying that we aren't interested in an update and don't care about any security issues within an application that won't be executed anyway.
A friend of mine had a bad experience with steam which ate his 1 GB monthly quota in mere minutes (internet was down so he used his phone instead, didn't think much about having steam running in the background).
Hopefully app stores will be in charge of updates. I don't feel like having a separate update service for every application running all the time.