On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:13 AM,  <ad...@buskirkgraphics.com> wrote:
> The message for Netscape was very clear, the development community refused to 
> write for it they had started a precedence that could not be forgotten.
> I say communities will not forget this act and remove the browser from their 
> systems rather than be forced into an update for security reasons.
>
> Honestly, rarely do any of my customers use FF, and their reasons are 
> justified in their mind, so I do not argue the point.
>
> This is another reason for security personnel, to credit their policies in 
> denying FF on their network the same as they did with Netscape.
>
>
>
>
> Richard L. Buskirk
> Senior Software Engineer/Systems Administrator
>
> You can’t grow your business with systems that are on life support...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Quadling [mailto:rquadl...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 5:38 PM
> To: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
> Cc: Andy McKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Upgrade or Die?
>
> On 24 June 2011 19:39, Ashley Sheridan <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 13:38 -0400, Andy McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:30 PM,  <ja...@nixsecurity.org> wrote:
>>> > Chrome. Enough said. Now, if we can only convince the rest of the world 
>>> > ...
>>> >
>>>
>>> Ugh.  I can't stand Chrome.  Of course, I gave up on Firefox years ago
>>> and went back to Opera, so it doesn't bother me when Firefox does
>>> something weird like this...
>>>
>>> -Andy
>>>
>>
>>
>> Meh, I'm still using 3.6 on my main computer and 3.5 on my laptop. Using
>> Fx4 at work, and I have to say, I prefer 3.6. Fx4 is slower, prone to
>> crashing and a bit of a memory hog. I really hope Mozilla doesn't go the
>> way of Google and create loads of new versions dropping support for the
>> older ones as it goes, even if the 'older' versions are barely that old
>> at all.
>
> That pattern of behaviour sounds exactly like Netscape all those years ago.
>
>
>
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Just to throw my two pennies into this - I believe that all browsers
should auto-upgrade.  The browser has become the most important
application on desktops and it is remiss of all parties involved to
allow the masses to use exploitable out-dated software.  If someone is
paranoid about their supposed privacy, afford them the luxury of
finding ways to use software that has known defects.  I entreat you to
consider how much time and pain this would have prevented over the
last decade.

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