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."
