Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:13:24 +0100 From: Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, flo@FreeBSD.org Cc: gecko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a plea: please don't deprecate FF 3.6 yet Message-ID: <CAJTLrNy9F5i=ijSbtcAy-5TY3L%2B82fx9MCqUOtr3TD2x9cShGA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120316094753.GA73354@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20120316094753.GA73354@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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2012/3/16 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>: > I'm on ia64, and www/firefox doesn't build. > www/firefox36 is about the only full featured > browser that does build on ia64. As far as I know not only ia64 is affected by the deprecation of Firefox 3.6. I know that PowerPC is no longer supported in newer versions of Firefox. I don't know the current status of Firefox on sparc64 but I assume that it currenty doesn't build. > I've several open bug reports with mozilla: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638056 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647830 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683879 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729447 Thanks, for opening these bugreports! > I understand it's a pain to keep obsolete > software in ports, and I'm trying to find > a newer alternative. However, with the current > pace of version numbers in mozilla project, FF12 > might be coming out tomorrow, and I'm not ready > to migrate from 3.6 yet. Firefox 3.6 will be end-of-life on April 24th. My intention was to remove it with the relase of Firefox 12 as at that point upstream no longer provides security updates and I like to avoid having vulnerable software in the portstree which is no longer maintained (yes, we also have to update libxul as the current version is based on Firefox 3.6...). Flo, whats your opinion on this? Thanks, Beat
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