Mozilla gets criticism from business users because of the announcement that Firefox 4 no security updates after the release of Firefox 5. Microsoft jumps to this by focusing on his long support.
Last week, Mozilla Firefox 5, three months after Firefox 4 was released. At the end of april appeared Firefox 4.0.1, that eight vulnerabilities closed, but that’s the only security update that the version of the browser. “Firefox 5 is the security update of Firefox 4”, in the words of Firefox director Asa Dotzler. For upcoming Firefox releases would apply the same, while Firefox 3.5, for example, 16 months after the release of 3.6 is still supported.
The decision to have Firefox 4 as soon as the eol-status, led to criticism by some web developers and makers of add-ons, but especially to system administrators who were working on the browser version to roll out in their business environment. “I have over 500,000 corporate users on Firefox 3.6. We are just in the process of a test cycle of Firefox 4 on many thousands of web applications to complete,” says system administrator John Walicki, as a response to a blog post from Firefox developer Mike Kaply. He finds that the decision of Mozilla as a “kick in his stomach’. Another administrator points out that in corporate environments stable releases are of major importance.
According to Asa Dotzler point, Mozilla has also completely not on business users: “Every minute that we spend on the happy of system administrators, can be better used to doorsneegebruikers happy to make.” He points out that Firefox 2 million downloads per day of the “regular users” and that the numbers that the system administrators as ‘fractions of fractions of a percent of the gebruikersschare’ part.
Microsoft jumps quick to the criticism and welcomes business users with open arms. “Given the substantial investment of your company in Firefox, it is definitely an amazing position that Mozilla here to occupy,” writes Ari Bixhorn, IE-director of Microsoft. He points out that Internet Explorer 9 just as long supported as the business Windows 7 version where it is running; in the Enterprise, this is until January 2020. Critics like Larry Seltzer suggest that the rapid updates of Google Chrome and Firefox cause that large companies Internet Explorer should use.