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Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released
As part of Mozilla Corporation's ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.16 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html. We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 2.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting "Check for Updates?" from the Help menu. For a list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox 2.0.0.16 Release Notes at: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/2.0.0.16/releasenotes/ Note: Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3. (follow-up: mozilla.dev.planning / dev-planning@lists.mozilla.org) _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/announce (Log in to post comments)
Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released Posted Jul 16, 2008 15:22 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link] "Note: Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3." I know it's generally a very easy upgrade and I certainly agree that Firefox 3 is a very nice improvement over Firefox 2, but I think it's a bit early to stop supporting Firefox 2 only about 6 months after releasing a new major release. I think there'll still be many Firefox 2 users when they stop supporting it.
Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released Posted Jul 16, 2008 16:04 UTC (Wed) by pbrutsch (subscriber, #4987) [Link] They've always done it that way. 1.0 was supported for 6 months after 1.5 came out, 1.5 was supported for 6 months after 2.0 came out, etc.I agree, though, that they should support the previous release longer than they do. However, I should also stress that the Mozilla folks do not have the resources to commit to developing and QA'ing security updates for 10 year old browsers the way Microsoft does. I suspect that 6 months is the best they can do with what they have.
Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released Posted Jul 16, 2008 17:35 UTC (Wed) by ami.ganguli (guest, #9613) [Link] It's also a niche that third party support organizations could fill. Individual consumers will be quick to upgrade, but larger companies might want to move more slowly, and be willing to pay somebody for continued support. Anybody know what Canonical does for Ubuntu LTS releases?
Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released Posted Jul 16, 2008 17:46 UTC (Wed) by andybruk (subscriber, #31794) [Link] Anybody know what Canonical does for Ubuntu LTS releases? I believe that regardless of LTS or not, if a version is no longer supported, they will upgrade to the latest version. I remember this happening with Ubuntu Breezy and Thunderbird.
Firefox 2.0.0.16 Released Posted Jul 16, 2008 19:10 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link] Well, they did choose to release the latest LTS with Firefox 3 beta.
They ARE supporting it Posted Jul 16, 2008 21:03 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Latest version is 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614c-0ubuntu1 - and yes, it includes backports from 2.0.0.15. Hopefully we'll see new version with backports from 2.0.0.16 soon... I'm not big fan of Ubuntu (for various reasons) but I admit that promised support is quite real.
They ARE supporting it Posted Jul 17, 2008 1:25 UTC (Thu) by qg6te2 (subscriber, #52587) [Link] Latest version is 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614c-0ubuntu1 - and yes, it includes backports from 2.0.0.15.Keeping Firefox at 1.5 for the sake of appearance of "long term support" seems rather misdirected in this case. Apart from a few ancient add-ons, does upgrading Firefox to 2.0 or 3.0 really break anything? Surely Ubuntu can put the engineering resources into something more important. (Even Red Hat's rather crusty RHEL 4.x is getting an upgrade to Firefox 3.0.)
Extensions? Posted Jul 17, 2008 4:47 UTC (Thu) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link] The way Firefox extensions work (AFAIK) is that they have to be whitelisted as "works with version X" so a major upgrade like 1.5 to 2.0 would break every extension. This is not ideal. Users can go and upgrade the extensions on the system and in their profiles, but that is a long, long way from being a drop-in replacement with no side effects.
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