From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 13:28:19 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 769C71065674 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:28:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@cyanide-studio.com) Received: from mail.cyanide-studio.com (mail.cyanide-studio.com [195.66.80.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4EAA8FC27 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.1.8.14]) by mail.cyanide-studio.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3926F17BF49A for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:08:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.cyanide-studio.com ([10.1.8.3]) by localhost (mailguard.cyanide-studio.com [10.1.8.14]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65780-06 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:08:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.1.8.120] (unknown [10.1.8.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bsemene@cyanide-studio.com) by mail.cyanide-studio.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D5C17BF48A for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:08:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E033AD7.2010600@cyanide-studio.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:08:39 +0200 From: Admin Cyanide Organization: Cyanide User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD References: <20110623075223.3b439423@scorpio> <19971.11087.811956.446957@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20110623083030.2afcccfd@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20110623083030.2afcccfd@scorpio> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:53:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 13:28:19 -0000 Le 23/06/2011 14:30, Jerry a écrit : > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 > Robert Huff articulated: > >> Jerry writes: >> >>> > From URL: >>> . >>> >>> 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. > > The best part is that many of my "add-ons" again no longer work. From > what I can see in the ports system, and I may be wrong, there is not an > option to use the version 4 either although remnants of version 3x > seem to still be available. It appears that a user is forced into > version 5 from version 4. Wow, and people bitch about Microsoft's update > policies. > 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. What is surprising is why it is not a 4.1 release, I'm not following Firefox development but I'm surprised how fast they've gone from a major release to another. What has been changed in FF 5 that needs this release number change ? -- Bastien Semene Administrateur Réseau& Système Cyanide Studio - FRANCE