Dear Josh, I am replying to the last sentence of your post. I can't speak for Dan and FF2, but I only use IE6 when Firefox 3.0.7 fails to open a site. Let's recall that a new user posed a question, and in my bumbling manner I managed to accidentally find a workaround for him. I meant no evil.
Sorry to break my promise to STFU about all this; wounded pride drove me to it... Rick --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Josh Sled <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Josh Sled <[email protected]> > Subject: Upgrading vs. if-it-ain't-broke [WAS: Re: Fairpoint] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 11:09 AM > Dan Clough <[email protected]> writes: > > I'm a big fan of the "don't upgrade just > for the sake of upgrading" and > > "don't fix it if it ain't broke" > mindsets. That's one reason that I use > > Slackware... :-) It just works. > > I fear those maxims don't apply to software. One of > the only ways – > unfortunately – we seem to know how to manage systemic > software > complexity is through continuous updates. > > Most distros do a pretty good job of this through the often > unsung > efforts of package maintainers. I happen to think Gentoo > does one of > the best jobs of this. :) (Slackware seems to be one of the > worst, in my > experience.) > > Upgrade for security reasons. One reason FF2 is EOLed is > because of > known vulnerabilities. > > Upgrade to let the web advance. Browser traffic share is > something > taken into account when web sites are looking to figure out > what the > implementation details for their site need to be. Seeing a > large > population of IE6 and FF2 browsers means they're in for > a world of > pain. > > -- > ...jsled > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; > echo $...@${b}
