To be honest I had been thinking about upgrading to Firefox 2.0 this weekend. I just had not gotten around to it yet. So, now with the news that users of the Firefox 1.5 branch will no longer have support as of April 24th, I figured it’s time. Knowing my luck I’d forget until then anyway.
The April 24, 2007, date means that Firefox 1.5 users are being given a six-month window to move over to the Firefox 2.0 browser, released last month. This is the same amount of time that Firefox 1.0 users were given before updates for that product ceased.Version 1.5.0.8 also includes new software that will eventually allow Mozilla to push out its version 2 of the browser via Firefox’s automatic update mechanism.
Although Firefox 1.5 includes an automatic updater, it does not allow users to decline these software updates. So Mozilla has decided to add this capability in the 1.5.0.8 patch before offering the Firefox 2.0 as an automatic update. That way, users who are not ready to make the move to 2.0 will be able to decline the upgrade.
Be sure to check out the latest version of Firefox. As well, have a look at the mobile version over on Portable Apps.
Tags: Firefox Support, Firefox 1.5 EOS, April 24 2007, Mozilla
