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| Thread ID: 94474 | 2008-10-31 00:35:00 | Mozilla Announces Retirement For Firefox 2.0 | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 716165 | 2008-10-31 00:35:00 | Say Bye-Bye to 2.0....................:eek: Mozilla's policy is to support a browser for six months after it's been superseded by a new version. The company unveiled Firefox 3.0 in mid-June; shortly after that, Mozilla announced that it would stop patching Firefox 2.0 later in the year. One user on the mozilla.dev.planning message forum asked Beltzner how the end-of-life for Firefox would affect Thunderbird 2.0, the email client that's built on the same Gecko foundation as Firefox 2.0, or other applications, such as SeaMonkey or Camino, also based on Gecko 1.8.1. "Based on the current [Thunderbird 3] release planning, [Thunderbird 3] will be released 3-4 months after the Gecko 1.8 [end-of-life], when [Thunderbird 2] is still the stable release," said Simon Paquet. Just thought youse guys in Upsidedown Land would like to know. |
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| 716166 | 2008-10-31 01:15:00 | You thought wrong. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 716167 | 2008-10-31 01:23:00 | Speaking for everyone South of the Equator is kinda presumptuous...wot? | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 716168 | 2008-10-31 02:12:00 | Speaking on behalf of 700 million people there Roddy. :p I for one, found it interesting to re-read the news from Mozilla, with Joe's spin on it. :) |
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| 716169 | 2008-10-31 08:50:00 | "Thought" is a foreign concept for some, that often leads them to leap into the -.-.-.-. I don't have any copies of FF2.x still active, Ice Wizzle seems a joke in bad taste, but changing ThunderBird would be a worry until any successor is well into it's 6 months. |
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| 716170 | 2008-10-31 11:48:00 | www.pcworld.com | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 716171 | 2008-10-31 16:18:00 | Can anybody tell me what "Gecko" is....is it a platform or a sub-system or some sorta compiler/language? I can read all the tech stuff, but I don't feel I understand what the articles are saying. |
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| 716172 | 2008-10-31 18:32:00 | The only copy of Firefox 2 I still have is on my eight-year-old laptop running Windows 98. :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 716173 | 2008-10-31 18:39:00 | The only copy of Firefox 2 I still have is on my eight-year-old laptop running Windows 98. :p Makes sense..no 98 to 98SE updates either? |
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| 716174 | 2008-10-31 18:40:00 | It runs 98SE. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
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