Members Dark Angel Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186700387 No more Firefox from here on out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 65_289 Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Originally posted by Dark Angel http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186700387No more Firefox from here on out. That says no more Mozilla suite, which was the whole browser, email, IRC, etc client. Firefox is still very much alive.Did you not RTFA, ala slashdot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chiro972 Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Looks like Mozilla is dropping development of Firefox to me also. Yes I did read the whole article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcourtjr Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 I know a guy that used to work for me that installed firefox on some servers. I couldnt believe that {censored}. He was fired. (for that among other things) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Arecibo Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 They said they were stopping support of the Firefox 1.0.x line. Firefox is currently in 1.5.x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 65_289 Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Originally posted by chiro972 Looks like Mozilla is dropping development of Firefox to me also. Yes I did read the whole article. Are you referencing this quote: Version 1.7.13 of the suite will be the final version from Mozilla, as per its "sunset" announcement a week ago when it said it would close the books on Mozilla, Firefox 1.0.x, and Thunderbird 1.0.x If so, the current versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are 1.5.x.x. It makes perfect sense that they are no longer updating 1.0.x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dark Angel Posted April 26, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 OK, the article was very poorly worded. Implying that an open sores group was going to pick up development of "the suite" made it easy to overlook that they were only talking about the suite as a whole at a snapshot in time. I think the author had less an idea what he was writing about than I did! So, it appears this was a false alarm... unless you insist on using some old assed version of Firefox. Apologies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grind Cruncher Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Originally posted by Dark Angel OK, the article was very poorly worded. Implying that an open sores group was going to pick up development of "the suite" made it easy to overlook that they were only talking about the suite as a whole at a snapshot in time. I think the author had less an idea what he was writing about than I did!So, it appears this was a false alarm... unless you insist on using some old assed version of Firefox.Apologies.... However, it does look like Mozilla is over though, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members godhacks Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Originally posted by Grind Cruncher However, it does look like Mozilla is over though, correct? Never was that great anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OverDriven Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Originally posted by jcourtjr I know a guy that used to work for me that installed firefox on some servers. I couldnt believe that {censored}. He was fired. (for that among other things) Forgive my ignorance, but whats wrong with it? Would you prefer IE!? -Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danger_boy_13 Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Yeah, Mozilla is done. Never really saw the point in running two browser lines since Firefox hit 1.0, and I guess they have seen the light as well. Seamonkey (another open source project based on the Mozilla suite) is still continuing development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcourtjr Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Originally posted by OverDriven Forgive my ignorance, but whats wrong with it? Would you prefer IE!?-Joe no reason to put software like that on a server in a production environment. There are enough holes in windows already. I personally prefer IE just because im used to it and it seems more responsive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bullhead Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 the 1.7.13 version was the last it would produce, putting an end to Mozilla's development of an Internet suite that traces its roots back a dozen years to the original Netscape. Mozilla produces two browsers, the regular browser known simply as Mozilla, and Firefox. seperate entities. it said it would close the books on Mozilla, Firefox 1.0.x, and Thunderbird 1.0.x. Firefox 1.0.x has been out of date for a good eight months or so. the alpha for 2.0 is on their site (called Bon Echo, since it's still an alpha). the full version of 2.0 is supposed to be out later this year, several months ahead of IE 7.0, which has been in development for WAAAY longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBecker Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/04/12/sunset-announcement-for-fxtb-10x-and-mozilla-suite-17x/ For the official announcement which makes it clear that this is the end of the 1.0.x line and that users should upgrade to 1.5, for clarity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members anonymousalien1 Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 I always thought Firefox was supposed to be more secure than IE. Hmm. *aimed at the bro who fired the dude for putting firefox on his broserver* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oblivion DC Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Originally posted by jcourtjr no reason to put software like that on a server in a production environment. There are enough holes in windows already. I personally prefer IE just because im used to it and it seems more responsive. Why would anyone need a browser on a server?? I can see putting a browser on a workstation, but what good would it do on a server? And hey jcourtjr, if you're using IE, you're just asking to get f'ed in the A. There are more vulnerabilities in that piece of bloatware than you can shake a stick at. And unlike the firefox developers, microsoft is slow to get patches out to fix their buggy POS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guerrilla Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Originally posted by Dark Angel OK, the article was very poorly worded. Apologies.... def not your fault that the article was written by someone who's completely unfamiliar with dangling modifiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bond Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 firefox is far superior to IE in all forms currently. IE has so many security issues. That being said, my techs use IE, but whoever fired the tech for installing firefox should be slapped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shiny_Surface Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 One of our IT guys got the idea to start distributing Firebox to end users and migrate them over from IE.What he didn't anticipate was that certain java enabled web applications that we use didn't work in Firebox and he had to hussle out there and show the end users to use IE for some things and Firefox for others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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