Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

[Jerry]

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 at seibercom.net

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