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[Antony]

With the fast paced release of Firefox 5 and "short amount of time" on maintenance of Firefox 3.6, Mozilla quietly killed the support of Firefox 4.

Mozilla believed that with the stop of patching vulnerabilities in Firefox 4, as well as making Firefox 5 be the security update for Firefox 4, users would be forced to move to the latest version.

Macworld has the report: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support (22 June 2011)

Perhaps some of us really like such rush update approach.

Perhaps the decision makers at Mozilla are those who can't live without the latest of whatsoever software people, kind of extremists to me.

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[James]

I've been attempting to switch over to Chrome for about a year now. It's not been easy since I have always used Mozilla in some form (Netscape first then every version of the Firefox browser thereafter). But lately I have found that Firefox is simply too slow at loading... at rendering pages... at keeping its extension writers in line to keep abreast of the latest version. As I mentioned in another thread, I realize that much of this is not the fault of Mozilla but it is an inherent problem of open source.

I am surprised that Mozilla would kill support for FF 4. That really is radical behavior and not something I would appreciate.

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[Fulvio]

Look at this!.
I think that Mozilla is shooting itself in the foot.

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[DJGM]

Perhaps some of us really like such rush update approach.

It would seem that Firefox is to get these types of fast updates every 3 months, with 6.0 due to be
released on 21st September. At least there is an option to turn off the Firefox auto-update feature.
Meanwhile with Chrome, it's every 6 weeks, more than twice as frequent as 13 weeks for Firefox.
Also, Chrome gets auto-updated in the background whether you want it or not.

Perhaps the decision makers at Mozilla are those who can't live without the
latest of whatsoever software people, kind of extremists to me.

Same also applies to the beancounters at Google with their even more rushed releases for Chrome.

Anyway, since you're an Apple extremist, methinks you shouldn't refer to others as extremists.


If Microsoft followed suit, there'd probably be a new version of IE every 6 months ... probably!

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[richard mitnick]

I am getting the impression that the biggest mistake Mozilla is making is the naming thing. I was aghast that FF4 was already dead. Well, it is dead in name only. FF5 is a security update. All of my stuff that did not work in FF5 on day 2, did work on day 4.

So, I am up on FF5 on seven machines.

The biggest complexity was being made to go to Robofo rm to get a new build specifically for FF5, no added cost to my 7.X license.

>>RSM

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[Antony]

I am surprised that Mozilla would kill support for FF 4. That really is radical behavior and not something I would appreciate.

There are recent reports that WebKit based browsers are almost taking the place of Firefox, mainly the increase market share of Chrome.

It might be the reason that Mozilla decided to follow Chrome's approach.

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