On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:13 AM, <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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:rquadling@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 5:38 PM > To: ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Andy McKenzie; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Upgrade or Die? > > On 24 June 2011 19:39, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 13:38 -0400, Andy McKenzie wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:30 PM, <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > -- > Richard Quadling > Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc > @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > 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. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
