Administrator DKT27 Posted March 17, 2010 Administrator Share Posted March 17, 2010 A few months later than expected, Mozilla is calling it quits for version 3.0 of its Firefox browser. "There will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x," Mozilla said Tuesday in a meeting planning document. The last update will be Firefox 3.0.19, due March 30, according to the Mozilla Wiki page. Mozilla started building the new version after some last-minute security fixes over the weekend. Mozilla had planned to discontinue support for Firefox 3.0 in January, but the browser got a lifespan extension after Firefox 3.6 arrived later than planned. The move reflects a gradual shift toward upgrading browsers more frequently, not just to keep up with new features, but also to free up resources otherwise spent on testing and maintaining older browsers and to reduce security risks associated with them. Google is even more aggressive: its Chrome browser updates automatically in the background by default, and it calls new releases "milestones" to be passed rather than version numbers to be attained. Microsoft issues frequent patches to its browsers but sees things differently when it comes to longer-term issues. It still maintains support for Internet Explorer 6, introduced in 2001. "We are excited for people to move on. We want people to move on," IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch said in an interview this week for the IE9 Platform Preview launch, but meanwhile, providing security updates is the "responsible" thing to do. Browsers are a fast-moving, increasingly important, technology and are central to the shift toward cloud computing. But there's a tension between organizations and people, for whom change can be a technical challenge or an expensive compatibility-breaking problem. Compatibility with standards can ease these transitions, but Web standards are in flux and aren't uniformly supported either with browsers or Web sites. Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 with great fanfare in June 2008, and it's been patched as 3.0.18. Firefox 3.6 is the current supported version, and, of course, future work is under way. Mozilla has released two public alphas of its successor, which is called 3.7 for now though that's not necessarily the final name. In the nearer term, Mozilla also preparing a Firefox 3.6 update called Lorentz. Mozilla had hoped for a beta release of Lorentz. But its chief feature--the out-of-process plug-ins (OOPP) design aimed to reduce crashes by putting Flash Player and its like into a separate memory compartment--is proving thorny. In addition, Mozilla programmers have only just begun the OOPP work for Mac OS X. Source: CNET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 This started with mine today and IF anyone knows what it is and why I would love to know.. each time I start Firefox.. I get like a hundred of these ( ESS Google.com SSL Encryption ). I wouldn't have even noticed but I scan and monitor my encrypted traffic.. See attachment..I would actually like to kill this someway.. so I am on that journey.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Administrator Share Posted March 18, 2010 A bit off topic. But as Firefox thing is all we are talking about.Many of guys here would remember that I was having a firefox closing problem. My CPU gone 99% with no end when I closed it. It's solved now. I was sure that the problem was because of an addon, but I didn't want to disable any addon so I had no luck for many months, waiting for a update of that addon I didn't know was casing any problems. And had to close firefox everything manually with Task Manager.Now the other problem was, I wasn't able to find any updates for any addons. All the time I got some error. Also for updating firefox some xml file error. Few hours ago I felt I've had enough. I pressed update and dang. It show updates for lots of addon. After updating all of them, restarting, it took me to a changelog of an addon that said they have fixed the problem that I had. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Sometimes Mr Tech will interfere with the updates.. especially if yo have the add-ons windows to open a new tab instead of opening in a new window...what kills me is all this crap with Google and even positive marketing of what they are doing and even going to drop identifying information as the new stated.. then ALL of a sudden with no changes to my system or browser I start getting like a hundred of these things when I open it.. I almost gutted everything that included 'google' in the name in the about:config...I got rid of all of mine that I had to enable by compatibility when I upgraded to 7... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Administrator Share Posted March 18, 2010 I had tested it in different profiles with no MR Tech installed. And had the same error, for addons and for firefox update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 That is odd.. something may have been blocking it.. or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Administrator Share Posted March 18, 2010 Tried disabling firewall and AV, etc. with no effect. Also tested on all the computer user accounts.Anw alls well that ends well. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Yeah guess so.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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