And while many authors of add-ons managed to make the necessary changes to their extensions to make them compatible with newer versions of Firefox as well, some abandoned their programs instead. The browser made a jump between version 3 and 4 that rendered several add-ons working under Firefox 3 incompatible with Firefox 4. The organization furthermore published blog posts and information on its core websites to inform users about the the unsupported version, and recommended there as well to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox.īut what is keeping Firefox users from updating their version of the browser to a newer one? Mozilla thinks that add-ons are one of the core reasons. Mozilla recently ended support for the browser and tried to get Firefox 3.6 users to update through the browser's automatic update feature. Depending on which statistics you look at, about 2.5% of all Firefox users are still working with version 3.6 of the browser. That's millions of users who are currently working with a version of the web browser that is no longer maintained or supported with security updates.
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