Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:35:15 -0400 From: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support Message-ID: <7C70B394-4C08-472C-9084-312141E0BD74@d3photography.com> In-Reply-To: <4E034ECD.2030505@gmail.com> References: <20110623075223.3b439423@scorpio> <19971.11087.811956.446957@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20110623083030.2afcccfd@scorpio> <4E033AD7.2010600@cyanide-studio.com> <4E034ECD.2030505@gmail.com>
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On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 6/23/2011 8:08 AM, Admin Cyanide wrote: >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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 ? >>=20 >=20 > 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. IMO Netscrape 6 was no better than IE6 :)
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