From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 13:25:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1279310656D5 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:25:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2038FC19 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe6 with SMTP id 6so1793775wwe.31 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.6.18 with SMTP id 18mr2041125wbx.66.1308835527214; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ex2sm1235106wbb.31.2011.06.23.06.25.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E033EC5.4020805@my.gd> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:25:25 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110623075223.3b439423@scorpio> <19971.11087.811956.446957@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20110623083030.2afcccfd@scorpio> <19971.15199.521753.184679@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <19971.15199.521753.184679@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:25:30 -0000 On 6/23/11 3:10 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Jerry writes: > >> > > Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to >> > > update to version 5 which is now in the ports system. What amazes >> > > me is how quick support was pulled from version 4. >> > >> > My morning-fogged mind says Version 4 was out less than a >> > year. >> >> Correct! When Microsoft EOL'd a ten year old OS (XP) the >> wailing's from certain factions was deafening. Now with Mozilla >> EOLing a product less than a year old the sounds of silence seem >> to be propagating. > > Which says something about the relative trust levels about > Mozilla and Microsoft bringing out a a new .0 of their core product. > > > Robert "still using XP" Huff > Well the main difference is, there was a lot of software that would run only on win XP for large companies, internal web applications, home made banking software... With FF, it's just a version bump, addons will get fixed (or not) and that is it. I for one was much more bothered by XP's EOL than I am with FF bumping. Although, I'll give you, I'm as confused as everyone regarding this 4->5 bump, surely they could have done 4.1 or something...