Firefox 3.5 forced upgrade coming soon
With Firefox 4 released not too long ago and Firefox 5 supposed to be released on June 21st. The firefox train is moving full speed ahead, the laggers are dealt with in an aggressive manner as well. There seems to be 12 million users still on Firefox 3.5, that's still a significant amount of users. We all remember what happened with IE6... To avoid that from happening again, Firefox will start issuing warning on Google's default pages for users of version 3.5 and planning to push out 3.6.18 as an update (if auto update is enabled) once Firefox 5 is out (finger still crossed on the Jun 21st day).
The days when a common web applications tell users that a certain new version of browsers not being supported is long gone. Still remember when lots of government and banks websites are asking users to use only supported browsers IE 6 and maybe IE 7. I think we are all moving towards sites aggressively making the users upgrade to newer browsers in an effort to protect them as well. Newer browsers generally have better protection and support new protection mechanisms (have you seen all the protection HTTP headers that are supported by the new browsers?)
More info about the Firefox 3.5 forced upgrade,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/16/mozilla_firefox_3_5_forced_upgrade/
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Comments
Firefox 7 is going to be out this year. That's +3 versions over the latest right now.
Why is that considered a good idea? Are the versions just the new point releases?
For a product that relies on add-ons for wide appeal, this will make it difficult for add-on developers to keep up, especially since so much of it is volunteer.
I don't envy supporting a company that has switched from IE to Firefox as the standard, that's for sure.
Jason
May 17th 2011
1 decade ago
I hope they loose their market share and die, well, not die. This from someone who has used Mozilla since his first days on the net.
Seamonkey is looking better every day and insanity has not taken them over, yet.
Gregg
May 17th 2011
1 decade ago
MrSoapsud
May 17th 2011
1 decade ago
mike
May 17th 2011
1 decade ago
All browser vendors have to choose how to spread their resources out. Supporting a browser that is two or more major versions back makes no sense, especially as migrating 3.5 users to 3.6.x is not quite the leap that 3.5 to 4.x would be.
On the new version numbers, this marks the move to schedule-driven releases, not feature-driven. There will be a new +1 release every three months, backed by four levels of deployment - nightly, aurora, beta and release levels, depending on how bleeding edge you like your browser.
Toby
May 17th 2011
1 decade ago
william
May 18th 2011
1 decade ago
Ryan
May 21st 2011
1 decade ago
I'm staying with Firefox 3.6.17 until they fix this problem.
JD in Alabama
May 23rd 2011
1 decade ago