Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:30:30 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support Message-ID: <20110623083030.2afcccfd@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <19971.11087.811956.446957@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20110623075223.3b439423@scorpio> <19971.11087.811956.446957@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: > Jerry writes: > > > >From URL: > > <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support>. > > > > 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. -- 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
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