Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0

Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by ericabiz on Monday December 05, 2011 @10:38PM (#3317743)

I'm really hoping you can get the remaining 3.6.x users to force-upgrade. We still have a couple people using 3.6 on our web app (where some pages won't render properly--we've labeled this 'wontfix' in our system since Firefox 7.0+ renders these pages properly.)

Any word on whether there is any way to get them to upgrade? Last I saw, it upgraded them to a newer 3.x version, but then opened a page on your site with a tiny-font-sized line of text that said "This isn't the latest version"--not exactly obvious that 3.6.x is pretty much ancient at this point.

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Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by rprospero on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @12:22AM (#3318052)

Firefox 3.6 user here. I'd love to upgrade, but the new versions don't run on PowerPC

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Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by gcp on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @02:18AM (#3318405)

I'm not a PowerPC Mac user, but I understood PowerPC Firefox is now entirely handled by the community in the form of TenFourFox.

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Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by pasbesoin on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @02:18PM (#3320555)

There are still extension issues causing me to wait. Also, I should probably start a fresh profile, and the effort is not something I'm particularly looking forward to.

Plus, the "Chrome wannabe" interface changes just piss me off. ;-)

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Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by Karellen on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @04:11AM (#3318614)

Seriously? Heck, 3.6 isn't exactly a slouch when it comes to web standards, particularly compared to IE, Konqueror and some of the "smaller" engines. What features are you using that 3.6 won't render right?

Also, FF4 was released only 8 months ago, and FF3.6 received a security update less than a month ago. "Ancient" my ass.

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