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Gatt

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Just had a notification that my browser needs updating to FireFox 5. Wow, FireFox 4 wasnt here long!

 

Yeah, and expect to see FF6 by about September and FF7 by Dec/Jan!

Mozilla have accelerated the dev cycle or FF. a bit like with Chrome (now on V12!)...

mthomas08

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I was surprised by this, I use IE and Firefox, had more issues with firefox since upgraded to V4... maybe its just huge fixes. I am glad some one else said "We not long had V4" thought I was going a wee bit mad.
sted

sted

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I updated/upgraded yesterday and to be honest, I haven't actually seen any difference????

 

Maybe it's more dependant on the sites?

 

-Ken

 

sync now appears to work without throwing up unknown errors but thats all ive seen (apart from log me in plugin not working and new tabs homepage works on my main pc but aparntly isnt ff5 compatible on my server huh!)

sonofsanta

sonofsanta

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It's a new stupid numbering scheme, the most stupid aspects of which are extensions assuming they won't work cos the version number is too high, and that FF4 is already EOL and therefore getting no further security updates.

 

Why they think the number matters, I know not, but so far FF5 seems more broken to me - albeit just that if I close a lot of tabs, the remaining tabs seem to remain static and don't fill the tab bar properly.

Arthur

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Has anyone read this article posted on ZDNet yesterday? It's quite clear we will never see an official Firefox MSI and/or group policy support from Mozilla now. :(

 

Mozilla to enterprise customers: "Drop dead"

 

If you are even considering migrating your business to Firefox, I strongly recommend you read two recent blog posts by consultant Mike Kaply.

 

Kaply, whose consulting company specializes in customizing Firefox for enterprises, calls the new rapid-release policy “a really bad idea.” The worst part is that with each new release, Mozilla is completely dropping support for the previous one.

 

Unlike consumers, who are thrilled at the chance to install new code every six weeks, enterprises crave stability:

 

Companies simply can’t turn around major browser updates in six weeks (and each one of these is a major update). With security releases, there was a reasonable expectation that web applications wouldn’t break as a result of changes. With these releases, there is no such expectation. So a full test cycle needs to be run with every release. By the time this cycle is completed and the browser is piloted and deployed, another version of Firefox would already be released so they’d already be behind.

 

In a follow-up post, Kaply quotes two fellow enterprise admins who are extremely worried about their ability to support Firefox.

 

So, has Mozilla reached out to Kaply to reassure him that they’ve got his back? No. In fact, Firefox evangelist Asa Dotzler showed up in the comments of Kaply’s post to tell him, bluntly, that he can expect zero support:

 

Mike, you do realize that we get about 2 million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, right? Your “big numbers” here are really just a drop in the bucket, fractions of fractions of a percent of our user base.

 

Enterprise has never been (and I’ll argue, shouldn’t be) a focus of ours. Until we run out of people who don’t have sysadmins and enterprise deployment teams looking out for them, I can’t imagine why we’d focus at all on the kinds of environments you care so much about.

 

Some 14 hours later, after Kaply argues that Mozilla should “throw a few resources at [the problem] and try to solve it,” Dotzler doubles down:

 

A minute spent making a corporate user happy can better be spent making many regular users happy. I’d much rather Mozilla spending its limited resources looking out for the billions of users that don’t have enterprise support systems already taking care of them.

 

You hear that, enterprise admins? You don’t count, and Mozilla has no intention of supporting your extensive investments in testing browser releases before deployment. And if you think that’s just a misunderstanding, Dotzler wants to make it very, very clear that Mozilla is serious:

 

As for John’s concern, “By the time I validate Firefox 5, what guarantee would I have that Firefox 5 won’t go EOL [end of life] when Firefox 6 is released?”

 

He has the opposite of guarantees that won’t happen. He has my promise that it will happen. Firefox 6 will be the EOL of Firefox 5. And Firefox 7 will be the EOL for Firefox 6.

 

Back in March, when Firefox 4 was released, I looked at the browser space and concluded that Microsoft and Google were in a superb position to squeeze Firefox into irrelevance.

 

I didn’t count on Mozilla actively participating in its own annihilation.

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Elison

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I updated/upgraded yesterday and to be honest, I haven't actually seen any difference????

 

here is the same, I dont see any differance. Maybe they just repair their bugs?

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