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Firefox 3.6 Support Ends April 2012

Posted by timothy on from the slow-motion-shutdown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla for some time after switching to the rapid release process talked about releasing Extended Support Releases that would give companies and organizations some breathing space in the race to test and deploy new browser versions. With the first ESR release (which will be Firefox 10), comes the Firefox 3.6 end of life announcement. Firefox 3.6 users will receive update notifications in April to update the browser to the latest stable version by then."

3 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Re:rapid-release by million_monkeys · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So should we expect that six weeks later firefox 4 support ends? followed six weeks later by the end of firefox 5 support? etc...? etc...?

  2. Re:FTFY: NotScript by revealingheart · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You'll have to provide sources for Firefox's alleged instability. Here's a link to Mozilla's Firefox crash statistics. If you can link to a report about Chrome's stability, it would be very useful.

    As for memory, Mozilla have been working on reducing memory in Firefox with the MemShrink project. Nicholas Nethercote's blog has the latest reports on improvements to the upcoming versions. Even then, it's been established before in testing that Chrome is a relative heavyweight when it comes to memory.

  3. Well then.... by smash · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It looks like Firefox 3.6 is going to become the IE6 of the 201Xs.

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