Your “big numbers” here are really just a drop in the bucket, fractions of fractions of a percent of our user base. Enterprise has never been (and I’ll argue, shouldn’t be) a focus of ours. Until we run out of people who don’t have sysadmins and enterprise deployment teams looking out for them, I can’t imagine why we’d focus at all on the kinds of environments you care so much about.
The Mozilla Community has focused our efforts on the needs of the individual user, and prioritized the product roadmap and features accordingly. However, as is the case with many technologies, loyal Firefox users and their IT departments have sought to bring Firefox into their places of work. A key challenge for enterprises is that they need to certify their websites, apps and add-ons each time Firefox is updated. This can take weeks or months. Security is also paramount, enterprises need access to a version that includes all known security fixes. We are exploring solutions that balance these needs, with active discussion in our community. Open Source software is well-suited to these challenges, as interested parties can come together to build what is needed.
What i don't understand, is up until a few weeks ago, it was still in the Alpha stages. I have not updated to FF5, and will not, until it can be proven to be a seamless, pretty much bug free environment. I use FF because i can not stand IE, and i've tried both Chrome and Opera, and don't like them either.
FF is my explorer of choice, but i won't update to FF5 until later.
Wow that is quite an attitude for FF to have about corporate customers. I did find it odd that it automatically updated to FF5 since it was a full version higher.
Didn't like 4 and doubt i'll like 5 much. I mean, I was all about FireFox back around version 1.x but since then I found it progressively getting slower and more buggy. Perhaps they've turned it around but Chrome just works flawlessly for me.
FF5 has been out for over a week and half the apps i use at work dont work in it so im stuck having to use IE9 for most of my remote sessions. Really stupid of Mozilla to dis the enterprise and corporate community. It will cost them dearly, and rightfully so they need to pay. Maybe that will get them off their high horse and get back to reality and release a decent browser. I have been disappointed in every FF since 1.5.
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I updated to FF5 a few days ago. Nothing wrong on my end as of yet. But i only use it for basic surfing so i wouldn't know of any intense bugs. I really wish they would make or update the tabs app cause it is real handy.
This makes me weary, It may make sense in Mozilla's mind but it doesn't make sense in our minds.
I mean why not just do security updates rather then small incremental updates? I mean if Microsoft, Google and/or Apple released browsers every 3 months then we would be at version 20 for each browser.
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I did noticed that FireFox 5 came out early than expect. FireFox should hold off with version 4 for while until FF5 need be in beta testing or check for bugs. I am stick with FF 3.6.18 on my pc.
I have used been using firefox since it came out. When ff4 debuted I hated it, there was so many bugs that I longed for the update before it came. Now that firefox 5 is here I can tell right away the differences with the plugins, flash, java, and memory management. If anything I think they pushed ff5 because of the slack they were getting from ff4.
Based on comments, there's still a lot of confusion out there.
Version numbers are arbitrary. Completely arbitrary. Windows NT 4.0 launched in 1996. Windows 2000 was officially based on the NT 5.0.2195 kernel. Windows XP used the NT 5.1 kernel. Windows Vista used the NT 6.0 kernel, Windows 7 uses the NT 6.1.76 kernel. Microsoft could've called Windows XP NT 6, Vista could've been NT7, Win 7 could've used kernel NT 8. The version number and the actual OS have nothing to do with each other.
People who say they're going to wait awhile before upgrading to FF5 are evidently confused about how the new version system works. Three months from now, Mozilla will release FF6. FF5 will be EOL'd at that point.
Under the old system, FF6 will be analogous to FF4.2.
Very nice until now I was generally using a chrome beta, but after reading this on FF5 last night I did a Xmark and the full uninstall of FF4, and proceeded to install FF5. I really like it a lot. Before with FF4 I had generally used it to check email because the FF auto multi account checker is better. Now I can resume using FF5 as my main browser I really like it, it is as fast as Chrome, I have all my add on's installed and set for various pages etc. Nice job Mozilla!
All these people sticking with FF3.6 or bashing because of FF5 really need to actually try 5. It is everything FF4 should have been, patched up, with Chrome like speed.
Also I want to laugh at Google since their update schedule is just as bad for corps as the new FF one is.
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InfinityzeN1: All these people sticking with FF3.6 or bashing because of FF5 really need to actually try 5. It is everything FF4 should have been, patched up, with Chrome like speed.
installed FF5 from source tarball earlier this week on a Linux boot Debian Sid and compared it with the previouse FF4 intall
popped around here in HH posted a trk in the Chiling vid thread load a bunch of flash > surf FB etc. monitored with htop to compare & all is good !
A definitively user noticeable speed imporvement between the too versions[FF4-FF5]
both Chrome 12 & FF5 are big on mem with flash and yep gotta agree with you InifityzeN1 FF5 has the snap of Chrome !
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The only reason I use FF over the other browsers (except IE, only a moron would use that) is because of the add-ons. The constant releasing of browsers creates add-on compatibility issues. I really hate to stop using my add-ons, and use a different browser, but I also don't wanna use an out-of-date web browser.
These fast releases are bad, for corporate and advanced users. The only thing this benefits is home users. And a lot of them just use IE anyhow, because it comes with their computers and they don't know any better.
smashed926:(except IE, only a moron would use that)
You know, Internet Explorer's not the disaster it was. I have to say that 9 way pretty good; 8, 7 and 6, not so much...
Anyway, despite the fact that both Firefox and IE9 fail to pass the ACID 3 test fully; they're still good browsers. I don't use Firefox much for the plugins as much as I used to do, I do use it because it's 64-bit, it allows me to customize it and it's the one that I'm most comfortable with. (Yeah, I'm not a big fan of IE9's interface, that's my only flaw.)
Google Chrome however will remain the only browser to pass 100% of ACID 3 due to Microsoft's and Mozilla's reluctance to make their browsers fully pass the ACID 3 test.
>> You know, Internet Explorer's not the disaster it was.
To clarify Taylor's correct and informative post. It's not a total disaster. :)
Known IE9 vulnerabilities: 10 (http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?c=12&vendor=Microsoft&version=%209&title=Internet%20Explorer)
Firefox 5: 0
Chrome 12: 0
Opera 11: 0
Firefox 3.6: 0
That's after less than three months of IE9 release time. I can't wait to see the numbers come this time next year (considering it's taken Microsoft over 2 years to address certain exploits in the past). IE is what it has always been: A Microsoft product that only survives by being tied to the OS monopoly.
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Neither the inherent presence of vulnerabilities nor the lack of full ACID compliance is a death knell. IE9 is not my primary browser (or even my secondary browser), but this is an extraordinarily complex topic. MS's decision not to support WebGL, at least not its current implementation, is a good security call, IMO--but there's no simple way to weigh it against more mainstream security bugs and flaws.
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