From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 14:33:56 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 4DCB3106564A for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:33:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA498FC14 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb11 with SMTP id 11so2242424iyb.13 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:33:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=CxYLB6bcjUoIQdXg48kdaKba+2hewbGPRIarIfu85i0=; b=j/TfWKSvrNvaHGpQ7bTxnvPV06dmV69gl68md0RrY20LxGZOQUekavIH4b+H0MQpOP ZbfCWCQFDSGfBlR8EKwSizMgqLqlxc5oy804ZfxBJWJmwnp+k9Gb1cKFc4odAP2N0PG0 4717vEj0kBmbW6EdC9H86vWKw72cGvcJhkAig= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hflnBTkXSgATQAXxugpvdMsgw8XRPjc0dcki3WlxF4DorTMNtZyZR0WBt55YDJfWas gI2qXREEw3j6keWptc/greDsM4kmfrUy4u3pXD5AbhG8dqhnBAjxEDp5UDzlOam+SZwy ue6x0EJwJVFUTkF49YBlB5rElgw7uwx3Q6KRQ= Received: by 10.42.210.203 with SMTP id gl11mr1996581icb.35.1308839635393; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-98-212-201-29.hsd1.il.comcast.net [98.212.201.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ft12sm925949ibb.53.2011.06.23.07.33.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E034ECD.2030505@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:33:49 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 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> <4E033AD7.2010600@cyanide-studio.com> In-Reply-To: <4E033AD7.2010600@cyanide-studio.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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 14:33:56 -0000 On 6/23/2011 8:08 AM, Admin Cyanide wrote: > > 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 ? > Blame Chrome. Just like there was no Netscape 5 because of IE6, the version number is marketing to make it look like Firefox is updating more often and faster than competitors.