Web Browser Discussion, Browser Talk - Slimjet Web Browser Online Forum

The Option to Auto-Update as a selection when the update notification drops down and lets one know there is an update. It could be added alongside the choices to Download and Dismiss. This choice would be available only after the first insall where the user has to do the install manually and accepts the EULA and makes the choice of a desktop icon and program location and to run or not to run after installation and to be default or not. All those choices can be saved during the first installation run. After that first install it would then be very convenient to be able to choose to automatically install based on the previous choices. And of course, if a significant upgrade is released it may be necessary to rerun the install manually to accept the EULA again etc... so the choice could disappear from time to time. The check for updates could return a yes or no for that choice with the yes their is an update return.

I check every update for an an automatic updater. What a bummer, so far
After that, I will be so happy to install Slimjet on the computers of my customers.

I keep on looking too! The auto update feature could, actually will come in handy on my slow wifi connection.

I am a bit puzzled that some here appear to be saying that there are "a few major flaws at the moment, ... automated updates etc" as dev just did when you can set Slimjet to update never or whenever. For me one of the attractions is being able to choose, turn off updates and I hope it will stay that way.

I am now retired but spent forty years in Information Technology but one of the things I hated and still do is being forced into constant change when the changes are unnecessary, unimportant or just due to indecision, like sometimes with Google Chrome. I am all for the tremendous, rapid advance of technology but thoroughly angry at how it is thrust down the throat of the man on the street quite mindlessly.

The only thing I do not like so far with Slimjet is that without a skin it is difficult to tell if there are pages in the current site to scroll forwards from or backwards to, The colour of the arrow is grey or a light blue that viewing on my TV as the monitor from ten feet away is somewhat difficult to differentiate. I do not want to have to use a skin, where there is bound to be something else I do not like such as tabs with angled edges wasting space, so making the readable part of them smaller.

I would also prefer to have the option not to have the icons in the bookmarks bar as they are pointless, especially for folders, just waste space unless you need one for a name of "" which I have set for one of them.

When i stated it had major flaws it was in the early days (oct 2014) of slimjet, it couldn't run html5 videos for instance and lacked in other ways too. Slimjet has improved in great leaps and bounds over the past 10 months. The update options are a bit here and there to me, i have it not to update but even if you have it to update it only informs you that a update is available there is no automatic update system in slimjet that i know of.
The overall skin and look of slimjet i would imagine is low on the agenda for slimjet as the devs here are up against some major changes going on in chrome/chromium at the moment and it doesn't help that chromium based browsers are not very ui friendly in their coding as say firefox is. As to bookmarks icons you do have the option of icon only, short title or long title (right click on any bookmark icon scroll down from sub menu). You also have the options of no bookmark bar, hidden bookmark bar or the new sidebar which is new in slimjet, right click on bookmark bar and the options are there or click settings scroll down to bookmarks.

On all of this I was up to date except that I gather that even with the option for Slimjet to update, it only informs you when one is available and user intervention always still is necessary. If that is what people are criticising, then I agree with them.

I install windows 7 at computers of home-users on a regular basis.
Most of them don't know anything about computers.
Most of the time they have no idea what the difference is between a browser, a website or the internet.
So downloading and updating Slimjet is a chore I cannot burden them with.
Even the question "updating yes or no" is too much!
"Updating what? Why are you harassing me with questions, while I have no idea about the consequences? Leave me alone and just do what I want you to do!"
And they will always choose "no", because people are inclined to choose the default, when they don't know.

I recently had dinner with some friends on whose computers I had installed Slimjet. One was having some system issues, and I asked if she had updated Slimjet. No, she hadn't. Another said, "Is that that yellow thing at the top of the page?". I was horrified to think that of the many hundreds of units on which I have installed SJ and set it as the default browser, many of them would still be stuck in an older version.

And the update process, as I tried to explain it to them, was complicated by the need to get bittage right, as two of their units I had converted to LinuxLite. "What's bittage", was their reply.

Most of the people who post to forums like this can handle updates on their own and probably prefer to do it that way. But that does not account for the majority of users, who have neither the time, knowledge or interest in tending to the browser every few days.

If I continue to deploy SJ, I will have to add a note about manual updating. This is a burden I don't want.

MS made its billions by making the computer accessible to the masses. I'm not suggesting Flashpeak go that far, but still there is wisdom there. If you want to relegate the browser to the back bench of geek enthusiasts, not having an available auto-updater is a good way to succeed. I've seen good software go down largely because of a technical purist mentality, the old Opera being a preeminent example.

And even for what it is, the present updater is very weak. It flashes at an inopportune time for a brief second and then is gone. And if you do click it you lose the page you are on - a sure way to get people not to click it again. It also would be helpful if the notice gave the edition of SJ that needs to be downloaded - Linux, 64 bit, for example.

Lot of nice improvements lately, and still handily the best browser, I believe. But I'm concerned that there must be improvements in understanding the needs of the public, or SJ will not grow in marketshare as it ought. There are other new browser forums that are alive with activity, while this one languishes. Rewards programs are not the way to growth. People don't recommend browsers to friends because they can make 50 cents. Meeting needs is.

With version 8.0.3.0 Automatic Update is now available for Windows only.