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Firefox 2 and Gecko 1.8 End of Life

Posted by Soulskill on from the out-with-the-old dept.

vm writes "According to Mozilla and other sources, Firefox 2 and Gecko 1.8 will soon be left behind some time in mid-December. The end result: no future security or stability updates. This will affect Thunderbird 2, SeaMonkey 1.1, Camino 1.5, and any other projects based on Gecko 1.8. So, if you haven't already upgraded, there's no time like the present."

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  1. Re:FF 3 in portage by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm perfectly happy with Firefox 2. I dislike many things about FF3, like the new Bookmarks/History window, "Show in Sidebar" not being on the history menu, the ugly preferences and addons panels, the horrifyingly intuition-defying "awesome bar" that ALWAYS gets what I'm trying to type completely wrong, and the horribly ugly theme.

    Anyway I don't want to upgrade so I shouldn't have to. How hard is it to backport security updates? It's not like gecko itself has security vulnerabilities.

    I don't care if they mark FF3 stable, but my "emerge firefox" better not upgrade me.