Firefox 2 and Gecko 1.8 End of Life 138
vm writes "According to Mozilla and other sources, Firefox 2 and Gecko 1.8 will soon be left behind some time in mid-December. The end result: no future security or stability updates. This will affect Thunderbird 2, SeaMonkey 1.1, Camino 1.5, and any other projects based on Gecko 1.8. So, if you haven't already upgraded, there's no time like the present."
It won't actually affect SM, TB, e.a. that much (Score:4, Informative)
Re:What about forks? (Score:3, Informative)
They will no longer receive upstream support or bug fixes.
Well I hope Thunderbird 3 comes out soon... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Panther Users (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, iCab [www.icab.de] and Opera [opera.com] are still supporting 10.3.9.
Re:Thunderbird (Score:5, Informative)
Thunderbird 3 is under development [mozillamessaging.com]. An alpha version is available.
Re:Thunderbird (Score:3, Informative)
There is a Thunderbird 3 in the works (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Main_Page [mozilla.org]).
They are currently headed for Beta 1 (see the latest status meeting notes at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-11-11 [mozilla.org]); the nightlies can be downloaded from the usual place (http://www.mozilla.org/developer/#builds) if you want to take a look.
Re:too bad for my employer (Score:4, Informative)
We use Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 at work. The GTK libraries are too old to build Firefox 3, and SLES 11 is not coming out for a few months.. I guess our local admin will have to seriously consider ditching SLES, its general obsolescence is becoming a problem lately.
But in any case, I can't understand the decision of ending support for Firefox 2 just 6 months after having released Firefox 3, this is too short for some distributions to respond.
Re:linux ff3 stability? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Thunderbird (Score:2, Informative)
There, fixed your grammar for you.
Re:too bad for my employer (Score:2, Informative)
Re:FF 3 in portage (Score:3, Informative)
I think he meant putting FF3 in the stable branch. I haven't synced for a while but if you did a normal "emerge mozilla-firefox" you'd get FF2. You have to explicitly say you want FF3 to get it. Then if you did an "emerge -vu world" it would of course, replace FF3 with FF2.
BTW, that's a shit tonne of compiling : /