Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/23/11 2:02 PM, Robert Huff wrote: 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

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread 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

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jun 23 07:02:56 2011 From: Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support Jerry writes: From URL:

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Jun 23, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: 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.

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry writes: 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!

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/23/11 3:10 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Jerry writes: 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

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Huff
Damien Fleuriot writes: Although, I'll give you, I'm as confused as everyone regarding this 4-5 bump, surely they could have done 4.1 or something... It is my understanding there are (even more) substantial (than usual) internal changes, particularly relating to HTML v5.

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/06/2011 13:02, Robert Huff wrote: My morning-fogged mind says Version 4 was out less than a year. Much less than a year. V4 came out in April. I'm wondering what the big deal is that Mozilla felt they needed to bump the major version number? There don't seem to have been many user

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Admin Cyanide
Le 23/06/2011 14:30, Jerry a écrit : 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

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Joshua Isom
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

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread 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

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:08:39 +0200 Admin Cyanide articulated: 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. We were, or at least I

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Simmons
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Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Alexandre
Hi all, Now the different versions of Firefox are : - Release (version) - Aurora (version +1) - Nightly (version +2) With this roadmap, you don't care with the version number of the release. There will be only one, not like before with 3.6.x, 3.5.x ... I think this is really more easy. You will

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Jerry on Thursday, 23 June 2011: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: snip 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

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:25:16 -0700 Chip Camden articulated: Yes, Pentadactyl for one. Upgrading to its nightly build version makes it work, sort of. Looks like text fields no longer scroll properly. This is taking the Google-led trend of beta is the new release to extremes. Google and its,