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

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: > > > 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 althou

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 s

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 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 leas

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 th

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 rel

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: . Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to u

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 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 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

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.

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: >>> >> _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 > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support > > > Jerry writes: > > > >From URL: > > <h

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: > > > > . > > > > Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to > > update to version 5

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: >> >> . >> >> Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to >> update to version 5 which is now in the po

Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry writes: > >From URL: > > . > > 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 wa

Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Jerry
From URL: . 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. -- Jerry ✌