Mozilla plans to kill Firefox 3.5
Mozilla plans to push 12 million users of the old Firefox 3.5 to a newer version in the next month taking the unusual step of automatically update their browser.
Firefox 3.5, which began in mid-2009, is already alive: Mozilla has given users of security fixes in their latest version 3.5 three weeks ago. But in June, Mozilla will use a different strategy to make Firefox 3.5 "is dead" as a page on the website of the company.
"We are treating the automatic update checkbox enabled as a 'Yes, I want Mozilla to keep me updated,'" Legnitto wrote. "Previously as a courtesy we had people opt-in between major versions due to the potential jarring nature of the update. We feel the difference between 3.5 and 3.6 is not severe and with 3.5 reaching end-of-life 3.6 is the security update for 3.5 users."
Mozilla prefers that the estimated 12 million Firefox 5.3 users upgrade to the latest Firefox 4 instead, but will simply migrate to Firefox 3.6, the version that was launched in January 2010.
On 21 June the 5th is supposed to send Firefox, Mozilla Firefox automatically push 06/03/1918 - standard warranty upgrade - if the company chooses some remaining bugs. If these errors are not fixed by then automatic update to Firefox 3.5 users have beaten a little later.
Before that, however, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 accelerates warnings to users that are running currently unsupported browser.
According to the detailed design document from the Mozilla site, will start Tuesday for Firefox 3.5 users will see the message default home page of Google search that says "Your version of Firefox will no longer be protected from online attacks to get the update. - It's fast and free! "
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 has already told the people that are going out of date browser.
Firefox 3.5 users can avoid the message and auto-update in June, download and install Firefox 4.0.1 on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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