Mozilla has signed Firefox 2.0’s death sentence. The
predecessor of Firefox 3.0 has approximately six more months of
life left, after which Mozilla will focus entirely on version
3.0 and above. In fact, Firefox 2.0 will not live to see 2009,
and will be buried by versions 3.0 and 3.1 of the open source
browser. It’s nothing
more than common practice for Mozilla to kill off older
variants of Firefox within six months after the new releases
ship, and v2.0 makes no exception to this rule. Since Firefox
3.0 was launched on June 17, 2008, Firefox 2.0 will be
terminated by mid-December 2008.
“Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3,” advised Samuel Sidler, Quality Assurance Engineer at Mozilla. Firefox 3.0 will be the main agent deployed by Mozilla to wipe out Firefox 2.0. Mike Beltzner, User Experience Lead, revealed that discussions are in place whether Firefox 3.0.1 will be rolled out as a major update to all Firefox 2.0 users.
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