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According to Alex Keybl, Firefox's release manager, the automatic upgrade of Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 12 will take place in early May, although a date has not yet been set.
OK, I loaded it onto my miniMac PPC G4 w/10.4.11. Initial test pages look good, some speed gain. They warned about slower video on a G4, which I do see. OK since I don't watch that much video, and can switch back to FF 3.6 if needed. Thanks again
Fiorefox now badgers me with every startup to upgrade to the new version, but I'm waiting to hear comments. I've learned to take it as an article of faith that every program that ever gets upgraded actually gets worse, except for becoming glitzier for their target demographic, which these days is the social networkers. So I expect every upgrade to make the usual browsing more difficult unless I want to let their browser steer me into social networking sites.
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WHY are people still using 3.6?! I've upgraded as the upgrades have become available as a matter of security.
I can answer your question in another way.
Many corporate shops are relatively slow to update to a new major version of any given utility. As an example, for us, the 3.6.x line has been approved, but newer versions have not.
Given the (stupid and largely baseless, IMO) acceleration of version numbering undertaken by the Mozilla project in the past year or so, it has become almost impossible for the IT folks to properly test and accept new versions before the next major version increment comes along.
We're lucky 3.6.x is accepted ... it wasn't that long ago that versions newer than 3.0.x were frowned upon.
Mozilla isn't THINKING about the implications of its version numbering schemes on larger corporate customers.
In any case ... that is why I tend to use the 3.6.x version on my corporate desktop. It has been approved, until recently it was updated regularly, and a version newer than that will sometimes trigger alerts and resulting questions that I personally find somewhat troublesome ... I don't want to have to justify (again) my use of an open source tool not on the approval list to someone who doesn't understand open source or Mozilla's hopelessly accelerated versioning paradigm.
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