Mozilla will auto-upgrade Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 12 in May. Mozilla has given Firefox 3.6 users plenty of warning, telling them several times over the last months that they need to upgrade because of the impending retirement. The newest such message told Firefox 3.6 users that it was their last warning before Mozilla switched on automatic upgrading.Mozilla issued its final security update for Firefox 3.6 on Jan. 31, and officially retired the browser from support last Tuesday, April 24.
If users want to keep Firefox 3.6, they must disable updates before the May auto-upgrade. On Windows, that setting is reached by selecting "Options" from the Tools menu, clicking the "Advanced" tab, and then clearinng the box marked "Firefox" under the heading "Automatically check for updates." On the Mac, the same dialog can be brought up by selecting "Preferences" from the Firefox menu.
Firefox 3.6 accounted for a significant chunk of Mozilla's usage share last month. By metrics company Net Applications' estimates, 13% of all copies of Firefox, or about one-in-eight, were version 3.6.
Source: Computerworld
