Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support
Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 22:27:49 UTC 2011
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Jayton Garnett <jayton.garnett at gmail.com>wrote:
> FF4 only came out a few months ago and they're retiring it from security
> support? That's Lame. Really Lame.
> Oh well, it's a good thing it doesn't effect me because I only use Chrome.
> Versioning doesn't matter because 99% of the users are up to date within a
> few days of a new update / version being released. So it's just Chrome to
> me, not Chrome 12, 13 or 14, it just doesn't matter.
>
>
The goal for Firefox devs appears to be the same: everyone is auto-updated
in the background so that everyone is always running the latest version of
Firefox (unless they disable that option in the settings). Just like
Chrome. In a few years, version numbers for Firefox and Chrome will be
equally as useless.
Which is going to make it absolute *hell* for OSes that compile their own
binaries (like the BSDs and most Linux distros) as they won't/can't support
the auto-update feature. Which means we're going to have users with all
kinds of different versions for Firefox/Chrome.
Although, maybe this will force web developers to start checking for
*features* and not just blindly checking version numbers in User-Agent
strings. If that happens, then I'm all for this forced-upgrade nonsense.
:)
> Does anyone take FF's rapid release roadmap serious? I know they're packing
> in lots of new features in, but surely there is a limit?
> I think IE9's UI is better than FF's, but I still prefer Chrome's.
>
> Chrome, IE9, and FF4+ all basically have the same UI now:
- 1 row for tabs with 1 icon for accessing "menus"
- 1 row for toolbar icons and address bar
- dynamically hidden "status bar"
The only differences are that IE uses a tonne of extra space at the top of
the window for the Aero nonsense, Chrome removes the title bar, and Firefox
has a smaller title bar.
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Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com
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