nsane.forums Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Official support for Firefox 3.6 will end this coming Tuesday as Mozilla moves on to support its newer web browser software releases. And the minimal requirements for Firefox on Windows have changed. If, for some reason, you are still using Firefox 3.6 as your primary web browser, it's finally time to upgrade. Mozilla announced last March that it would be ending its official support for Firefox 3.6 this Tuesday, April 24th. In its message, Mozilla stated, "We strongly advise our users to upgrade from Firefox 3.6, as they will no longer receive critical security updates as of April 24th." Firefox 3.6 was first released in January 2010 and Mozilla has since released a number of security updates for that version of the browser. Starting with the release of Firefox 4, Mozilla decided to make the upgrade to the next version of Firefox as the defacto security upgrade for the previous version. In related news, Mozilla announced that starting with the official release of Firefox 13 in June, the minimal system requirements for the Windows version will go up from Windows 2000 to Windows XP SP2. Mozilla states, "We never change minimum requirements lightly, but this support change allows us to significantly improve Firefox performance on Windows by using a more modern build system." Mozilla has already announced its future plans to release a version of Firefox that would support Windows 8 and the Metro touch screen user interface. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 22, 2012 Administrator Share Posted April 22, 2012 Goodbye v3.6. Welcome HTML5, Hardware acceleration, faster JavaScript, WebGL and a modern web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malakai1911 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 I'm happy that Windows 2000 was supported as long as it had been. That was one of my favorite operating systems of all time and was my desktop OS for many years.With the end of 3.6 near, I've suggested those who I know who still use it to move to Firefox 10 ESR edition, with some quick changes to make the layout similar to 3.6 (show menubar, hide bookmarks bar, tabs on bottom, move the stop/refresh and home buttons to the left). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 22, 2012 Administrator Share Posted April 22, 2012 With the end of 3.6 near, I've suggested those who I know who still use it to move to Firefox 10 ESR edition, with some quick changes to make the layout similar to 3.6 (show menubar, hide bookmarks bar, tabs on bottom, move the stop/refresh and home buttons to the left). Indeed. Very good suggestion. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 It's time. It served its purpose, version 4, 5, 6 were just awful. That's when I dropped Mozilla entirely. But now, with version 12, it's simply better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy2004 Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 actually pretty much all the firefox after 3.6 where dreadful and of couse i could never get any of my addons to work with the new versions after all 9, then 10 then 11 and now 12 came out pretty much 1month after each other. which is the main reason i stayed with 3.6, and until mozilla stop with their constant updating of the names, soon will be on version 20 before the end of the year. not updating of the program, just the name as the addons use this in their setups. so one that would install on say 3.6 will not install on anything higher than 4.0 because of a simple piece of text included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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