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This is a guest post by Obaid Ahmed

According to ZDNet Mozilla is planning to kill Firefox2 support in mid-december. There seems to be a mixed reaction about this in the blogsphere. I am a bit concerned with the quick push to kill support for Firefox2.

Firefox3 has been in market for a little while now. I have had mixed experiences with it. While the memory usage is better, it does still crash after running all night. The awesome bar needs some improvements before I get used to it.

As a developer I think its too early for Mozilla to end Firefox2 support. A lot of internet users are still using Firefox2 and a vast majority of bugs still need to be fixed. Lets face it, not all the internet users are going to switch to Firefox3 within few months. Maybe Mozilla should keep on supporting Firefox2 for a bit longer until they get satisfactory number of people to jump onto the next version.

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4 additional thoughts for this post.

  1. Payment Systems Expert Said:

    …as if you had to pay to upgrade!

  2. Jaffer Haider Said:

    How do you define ’satisfactory’? I’m no expert in running a web browser firm, but looking at a typical firefox user, I’m pretty sure Mozilla made the right choice (whatever their reason behind that choice is).

    People using Firefox2 will switch to Firefox3 when they realize (or find out) that support for Firefox2 has stopped, simply because they’re more technology savvy. No one I know has had such a negative experience of Firefox3 that they’d want to keep on using Firefox2.

    I believe this move will facilitate in the evolution to browser based (client side) technologies. Seriously, as a person who’s worked on web applications, I’m completely in killing off obsolete browsers. Heck, I can’t wait for IE7 to die off … :)

  3. Qazi Said:

    :) Jaffer wishful thinking, there are still 20% internet users stuck on IE 6 and you are wishing IE 7 will die off

  4. Jaffer Haider Said:

    true true … :) … doesn’t hurt to wish for it :)

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