Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x?

Mooga writes "I am a hard-core user of Firefox 3.6.x who has chosen to stick with the older, yet supported version of Firefox for many years now. However, 3.6.x will soon hit end-of-life, making my life, and the lives of similar users, much more complicated. 3.6.x has been known for generally being more stable and using less RAM than the modern Firefox 10 and even Chrome. The older version of Firefox is already having issues rendering modern websites. What are others who have been holding onto 3.6.x planning on doing?"

Comments

Re:As users, we're getting fucked over. That's why

[Sneeka2]

I'm going to whine on /. on how betrayed I feel by a company whose free products I have enjoyed using in the past for free without having given back anything to them now that there are better alternatives and I don't feel like switching because I feel that company owes me for some reason.

FTFY.

Re:Why the anxiety?

[tqk]

I do not understand techie luddites.

I do not understand techie "bleeding edgers." Do you really *need* to be running the newest, most beta, least bug tested version? What the !@#$ for?!? Why? Really, what do you get out of doing that crap?

Also, as another poster said, (paraphrasing) it's a fscking web browser! Get a grip on yourself.

The box I'm typing this in is Debian stable/squeeze. Firefox/Iceweasel 3.5.16. It works. And you people think 3.6.x is ancient!?!

Jeebus. Im-BEC-iles; ultra-maroons!