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Old 30th June 2011
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Originally Posted by drhowarddrfine View Post
Problem with that article is that it takes a very pro-MS slant, in that it only discusses enterprises running Windows and Internet Explorer. What about all the non-MS-running enterprises that no longer have a long-ish-term browser to depend on?

For example, our school district just completed (middle of June) the upgrade of all our schools to Debian 5.0 (Lenny) which includes FF 3.6. Google (and other online providers) are EoL-ing support for FF 3.x this summer. So we had to do a manual install of FF 4.0 (no .deb packages available for it) and do all the testing to make sure it will work with all our websites and web apps.

And now FF 4.0 has been EoL'd by Mozilla, before we've even finished deploying it!!

Between sites like Google committing to only support the last 2 releases of any browser, and developers like Mozilla committing to releasing new versions every 6-ish weeks with no support for prior versions, is anyone really surprised about the uproar?

Yes, Google releases a new version of Chrome every 3 months or so. HOWEVER, they still release security and bug fixes for old versions in the meantime (watch the patch-level and minor version number increase in the About dialog). This is something that Mozilla won't be doing.

This is enough to drive non-MS users to Opera.
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