Comment 19 for bug 494772

The patch from post #2 is really urgent.
It costs nothing, it can't possibly cause any harm.

I like Miguel's approaches. One could actually mix both.

The biggest problem: some computers only have internet when they are on battery.
(Examples: a user doesn't have internet at home, or the convenient place to use the computer is not the convenient place to charge the computer, etc.)

So, a solution could be:

- Always download updates in the background without asking.
- Check daily. Limit the speed to save bandwidth.
- Install the security updates without asking, but never a big bunch at a time, as breaking the update causes problems.
- For release updates I don't really have a suggestion.

The idea is to mitigate the issue a little bit by downloading when there is internet and installing when there is power. Just downloading is not really dangerous, even on battery.