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Mozilla will put Firefox 3.0 to bed
OPEN SOURCE WEB BROWSER CHAMPION Mozilla is filing its last update to Firefox 3.0 as it steps up support for Firefox 3.6.
Mozilla has released a statement on its Wiki page that it will be making the final release of Firefox 3.0 on 30 March. The build for Firefox 3.0.19 started this week and the Beta release is due out for release today or tomorrow.
Mozilla initially projected that it would drop Firefox 3.0 a couple of months ago. But that deadline slipped as it got caught up in development concentrated on Firefox 3.6.
The Mozzarella Wiki page says "there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0" and that developers are working on "some activity over the weekend with some last minute security fixes."
While Mozilla kept Firefox 3.0 alive far past its sell by date, it wasn't entirely due to its team hammering away at the 3.6 launch. At the tail end of February, Mozilla was forced to issue security plugs to stop a potential zero-day exploit. The fixes plugged up to five flaws that were listed as critical.
However, the Firefox 3.0 line is destined to soon go the way of Monty Python's parrot, so if you're using it, you might want to just go ahead and upgrade to Firefox 3.6. It's not hard. µ
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Story http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1592952/zero-day-flaw-firefox is coming up linked to the foot of this one. Are you standing by the story of a fatal flaw in Firefox 3.6 as originally published, or is it time to update the page and say, "Er, millions of Firefox PCs aren't being hacked, maybe it was a mistake"?
Today's captcha text is KAZAPY, which I find strangely joyful.
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1079515,00.html describes one consultant switching a corporate client from MSIE to Firefox when it was about brand new - talking about "last year" dated 2005, I think they mean 2004 (you see?)
Google has "about 15,200 results for {Firefox "corporate customers"}", but a lot of those are not actually reports of corporate customers of Firefox. But there are some, and they have particular needs.
What is this Mozzarella wiki page? Spell checker gone wild?
My ISP advises firefox and I noticed various DVD's included with hardware such as motherboards come with firefox too, so it seems main-stream enough now that even corporations got wind, so yes I see it as likely corporations even internally mandate and support FF.
And of course during the recent IE vulnerability panic various government advisory departments even advised firefox.
@ Amateur: What???? Support for 3.0 will end, but support for 3.6 the current version will continue as usual!
BTW...3.6 was released on January 21, 2010. So if you have not updated, now would be a good time to do so.
@ Robert Carnegie: Corporate Customers for Firefox? I did not know that Corporate Customers existed for Firefox!
Because as far as I can see, Firefox 3.6(.0) is the current version. I therefore assume that only older versions had the problem you refer to (perhaps 3.5 also?) and 3.6 doesn't need an update yet. Watch this space ;-)
3.5.* is still in use in some places perhaps mainly because 3.6 doesn't agree with some third party add-ins. 3.0.* I am not sure why, maybe because corporate users were promised a program with a long maintenance life with no major revisions - thus it survives alongside 3.5 and 3.6 releases? Or because on less popular platforms they only finished porting it the week before?
It's utterly appalling that any large company should discontinue support for version 3 of something before version 4 is even out.