Firefox 1.0.x sunset announcement and Breezy

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/16/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> It does seem kind of insane that FF 1.5 was only released on 11/29/2005
> and less than 5 months later they stop providing even *security* updates
> for the previous version.  That's not even a full release cycle for even
> the most aggressive distros.  No corporate user in their right mind
> would deploy something that they can't assume will be maintained for
> even 6 months.  An IE->Firefox migration for a large corporation could
> easily take a year!

like a co-worker of mine would say:  you get the support you paid for :)

Seriously,  yes it seems this suddent transition to 1.5 is awfully
fast.    But considering that 1.0.8 was promised for sometime like
early March (I think...) maybe there is a technical reason, or 
man-power problem that more or less force their hand into maintaining
only 1.5, while they are developping on 2.x, and cut the 1.0.x loose
from their support.

Interestingly  I was just now reading the official announcement from
the 1st email in this thread, and it seems they are going to provide
some support for 1.0.x legacy browsers:

"While the Mozilla Corporation product strategy continues to be
focused on the individual end-user, Mozilla will continue to work with
downstream enterprise-oriented distributors and support vendors to
provide a program to enable extended support for otherwise legacy
releases."

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/04/12/sunset-announcement-for-fxtb-10x-and-mozilla-suite-17x/

I wonder if that means that security patches for 1.0.x will be
available for a bit longer still for Ubuntu.


--
Daniel Robitaille