Jens Hatlak wrote:
Basically it means that a new major stable version is released every six weeks, and security updates will only be fixed for that new version; the previous versions are discontinued instantly. Since the Mozilla platform (the rendering engine Gecko etc.) is bound to the Firefox release schedule, that decision didn't leave us with much of a choice. We had to follow suit(e). This was brought up by the Firefox guys, who wanted to have more and quicker releases to bring new features (especially support for new web technologies) to the 200+ million people that use Firefox. Previously new major stable versions only appeared after many months, often years. Their decision made some waves; especially corporate users are now mostly left in the cold. Efforts were announced to work on those issues but it's unclear what the outcome will be.
Very many thanks, Jens : much appreciated. My personal feeling is that this does not bode well, for Firefox, for Seamonkey and for anything Gecko-based. I just hope I am proved wrong. Philip Taylor _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
