From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 14:52:58 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 9FF4C106566B for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:52:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DB38FC0A for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyf3 with SMTP id 3so998806gyf.13 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.77.65 with SMTP id c41mr3381977yhe.10.1308840777498; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (twdp-174-109-142-001.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.142.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 1sm1048817yhs.11.2011.06.23.07.52.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (zeus [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3R0Qkv3SYCz2CG4d for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:52:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:52:54 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD 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> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:52:58 -0000 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