Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

[Ryan Coleman]

On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Joshua Isom wrote:

> On 6/23/2011 8:08 AM, Admin Cyanide wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> What is surprising is why it is not a 4.1 release, I'm not following
>> Firefox development but I'm surprised how fast they've gone from a major
>> release to another.
>> What has been changed in FF 5 that needs this release number change ?
>> 
> 
> Blame Chrome.  Just like there was no Netscape 5 because of IE6, the version number is marketing to make it look like Firefox is updating more often and faster than competitors.

IMO Netscrape 6 was no better than IE6 :)