End of Firefox 1.5.x support
Wednesday, 25. April 2007, 00:31:54
Well, as announced earlier, Firefox 1.5.x series lost official support today.
I use 2.0.x on Windows box, but still have 1.5.x on Linux. Fedora Core 6, the latest public distribution from Fedora project, offer 1.5.x as their key application. They offer rpm package of Firefox 2.0.x only at Development repository. So we can get it and use it with related, dependent packages like Epiphany or Galeon.
Fedora project will offer security patches in the future, if they need them, for 1.5.x of Firefox. Fedora is Linux, so its use is by one's own risks, OK.
What about Windows users? There seems to be quite a lot of Windows 95/98/Me users out there. As far as I know, on those Windows, 2.x or above Firefox doesn't work as expected. Some may invent tricks, and will make it work there, in the real world, though there might be no official support.
[Edit] On very close to the end day, they offered the announcement that it will extend to the mid of the next month. Confused!
Firefox 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2.
I use 2.0.x on Windows box, but still have 1.5.x on Linux. Fedora Core 6, the latest public distribution from Fedora project, offer 1.5.x as their key application. They offer rpm package of Firefox 2.0.x only at Development repository. So we can get it and use it with related, dependent packages like Epiphany or Galeon.
Fedora project will offer security patches in the future, if they need them, for 1.5.x of Firefox. Fedora is Linux, so its use is by one's own risks, OK.
What about Windows users? There seems to be quite a lot of Windows 95/98/Me users out there. As far as I know, on those Windows, 2.x or above Firefox doesn't work as expected. Some may invent tricks, and will make it work there, in the real world, though there might be no official support.
[Edit] On very close to the end day, they offered the announcement that it will extend to the mid of the next month. Confused!
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