Firefox 5.0

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 19:22:23 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Trever L. Adams
<trever.adams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 12:00 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>
>> It appears that Mozilla upstream is going to force our hand here.
>> Apparently, Mozilla declared Firefox 4 EOL alongside the release of
>> Firefox 5 [1].
>>
>> This is going to cause a lot of pain, especially with regards to
>> extensions.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support
> I think it also means that the only choice is for F14 to also go FF5. I
> was just reading that FF5 is considered the security update of FF4, so ...
>
Just to note, there was only one update for FF4, 4.0.1.  Something
like what happened with MS-DOS (for those who remember, DOS 4.0 bombed
a bunch of hard drives, actually destroyed a bunch of data.)

BTW, FF5 does look and feel 'better' than FF4.

James McKenzie


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