Mozilla Readies to Pull Support Plug on Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 reaches end of life
Mozilla announced its plans for the end of support for Firefox 3.6. The company won't release any new fixes or updates after April 24, 2012 which is also the date when Firefox 10 will be launched as it'll be Mozilla’s first Extended Support Release (ESR). Using Firefox 3.6 beyond the end of life date is dangerous and not recommended.
Since Firefox 4.0, Mozilla has been on an aggressive update schedule which sees a new version pushed out every six weeks. While this might be acceptable to home users, business and enterprise uses find this aggressive update cycle to be too much to handle. Back in September of last year Mozilla announced plans for a Extended Support Release cycle that would see a version of the browser supported for 42 weeks. Initially Firefox 8 or 9 was slated for ESR, but this slipped.
It seems that a lot of regular users are sticking with Firefox 3.6 too, for one reason or another. Currently Firefox 3.6 is at #6 in the browser version charts. Mozilla has tried nudging Firefox 3.6 users to the latest release already. Now it’s putting the squeeze on them. While there’s no doubt that the latest releases offer far better JavaScript performance than 3.6, it’s not been enough to convince the stalwarts that upgrading is worthwhile.
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