Mozilla将引入Firefox延长支持版(Firefox10)

Mozilla将引入Firefox延长支持版

在 LISA '11会议上，Mozilla 宣布从 Firefox 10 开始将引入延长支持版。



Firefox 10 将是第一个延长支持版，Mozilla 将提供一年的支持，不会移植新版本的特性，但会提供安全更新。通常，Mozilla 会鼓励用户升级到新版本，但在延长支持版中，通知升级功能将被关闭。Mozilla 将继续采用快速发布周期，长期支持版将满足企业用户所需要的安全和稳定性。



http://liulanmi.com/news/336.html


要手動升- -?

大致就是Ubuntu的LTS那一套（按原来的叫"长期支持版"难道不是更好听点？），求新求变的用户谁会去用...

Extended Support and Dropping Platforms

Dropping support for a specifc platform has a frustration effect for
owners of devices that cannot be upgraded.

For example, while the Maemo OS platform is not developed any longer,
the N900 device is still usable. However, despite having been expensive
and being just two years old, it's no longer possible to find a quality
open source browser that still receives security updates.

The same is true with the proposal to drop OSX 10.5 support, which will
the end of support for PowerPC Mac hardware, if I understand correctly.

Because of the above, here is a proposal (which repeats some of the
arguments also made in the 10.5 support thread):
"Only ever drop support for a platform after the release of an Extended
Support Release."

In other words, if Firefox 10 is a long term support release, then it's
fine to drop a platform in Firefox 11. If currently at Firefox 12, and
the next Extended Support Release is planned for Firefox 20, then the
earliest time we'd drop a platform would be Firefox 21.

Using this approach, we'd extend Firefox browser support for all users
who cannot afford to upgrade to a new device (or bought a second hand
device), and thereby reaching a bigger amount of users.

Also, if the last supported release for a device was an Extended Support
Release, this is probably a better basis for projects that try to keep
the software alive (cf. Wamcom/Classilla/Tenfourfox).

In my opinion it's Mozilla's mission to empower as many people as
possible, instead of just focusing on recent hardware.

In my opinion enabling a larger amount of people (think poorly developed
countries that use second hand hardware) to be able to use the web
(using a secure maintained browser) should have a higher priority than
adding new features.

When we had a similar discussion in the past, people used the argument
"but you don't any more OS upgrades anyway". I think this shouldn't be
an argument. The browser is the primary gateway to the Web, and it's
used to visit potentially harming sites. In my opinion it's more
important to have a current browser.

Someone will continue to use that old hardware that still runs. If we
keep our browser compatible with the OS, we help those users.

Regards,
Kai

俺就一文盲，一直不清楚Firefox居然有企业用户？哪些企业用户会只用火狐？快速更新又怎么对企业用户有影响了？

记得IBM就是火狐  
频繁更新 会有扩展问题
企业有自己开发的扩展
每次都要更新 那是很麻烦的

t2323：俺就一文盲，一直不清楚Firefox居然有企业用户？哪些企业用户会只用火狐？快速更新又怎么对企业用户有影响了？回到原帖

有的，像国外很多大学就用Ubuntu长期支持版，这里面当然就有Firefox

快速更新的影响主要在于很多功能上的改变并不是这些用户需要的，新版本会带来新的问题，更不是这些用户需要的。企业环境下讲究的是安全第一，花哨的功能和界面不是重点，重点是旧版本不断修补漏洞保证安全，这一点只有长期支持才能保证。

不过从Firefox用户的角度来讲，升级最怕的就是这不兼容那不兼容的，但一般在企业/学校使用的Firefox都是工作为主，我注意看了一下身边外国同学/老师电脑上的Firefox都几乎无一例外地没有装哪怕一个扩展。倒是所有人都晓得把Firefox配置为在退出时清除所有历史记录和隐私数据，老外对隐私的重视程度可见一斑。

为什么不是firefox ⑨！

新来的，支持