Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:52:54 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support Message-ID: <20110623105254.6c850fb9@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <4E033AD7.2010600@cyanide-studio.com> References: <20110623075223.3b439423@scorpio> <19971.11087.811956.446957@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20110623083030.2afcccfd@scorpio> <4E033AD7.2010600@cyanide-studio.com>
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:08:39 +0200 Admin Cyanide articulated: > The major difference is that when updating Microsoft's OS from a > major version to another you have to pay. > I'm not flaming, I just want to focus on the fact that this products > have not the same constraints. We were, or at least I was under the impression we were, discussion web browsers. Microsoft and Mozilla both made significant changes in the browsers before bumping the major version number. In this particular instance, it appears that has not happened. What really bothers me is that they EOL'd the version 4 virtually without warning after only a few months. I have never seen Microsoft or Google EOL a product that quickly. It might have been nice to keep the version 4 available for users who find version 5 unsuitable for whatever reason. Microsoft even keeps IE-5 (although I don't know why) available for download. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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