https://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/tag/qa/ Recent content in qa on Oxymoronical Hugo en-us Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:02:36 +0000 https://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2009/03/Testing-the-background-update-checks/ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:02:36 +0000 https://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2009/03/Testing-the-background-update-checks/ <p>Firefox does a fair number of things in the background to help keep things up to date. This includes checking for updates to Firefox itself, checking for updates to add-ons you have installed and checking for updates to a blocklist that disables known unstable add-ons. Normally it does these things quite happily, but for developers and QA, trying to verify that these background tasks are doing what they are supposed to can be annoying. After all who wants to leave Firefox running for a day just to see if it finds a new update?</p>