{"id":5543,"date":"2011-06-22T15:13:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2011-07-30T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T06:19:14","slug":"should-you-update-to-firefox5-you-may-not-have-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/should-you-update-to-firefox5-you-may-not-have-a-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you update to FireFox5? You may not have a choice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/firefox_anime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5525\" title=\"firefox_anime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/firefox_anime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>I have not upgraded to FireFox 5 yet mostly because of my horrible experience with the first release of FF4.\u00a0 So much so I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/how-to-downgrade-to-older-firefox-3-6-if-4-0-is-crashing-on-you\/\">uninstalled FF4 to FF3.6<\/a> on the desktop. Now I read Via <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/06\/22\/mozilla-kills-security-updates-for-firefox-4\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\">VentureBeat <\/a>that FF 4 or any older then current releases will not longer get security updates.\u00a0 That would be fine if upgrading was automatic.\u00a0 Its not.\u00a0 So if get a popup or do not see the popup for whatever reason, and do not upgrade, you will be exposed to what ever latest threats are out there.\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason I have not upgraded is that I have 2 plugs in I depend on, firebug and Toggle Grab (since I use a PC tablet).\u00a0 I just checked and Firebug does support FF5.0, so I&#8217;m downloading in the background as I write this post, but I&#8217;m not really thrilled about this.\u00a0 But I also do not like the idea of auto updating either in case I lose my plugins.\u00a0 So we are between a rock and a hard place with this one.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I will try not to be more then 1 version behind.\u00a0 Firebug is a major plugin that frankly I cannot do my job without, thus I&#8217;m going to have FF as my major browser regardless. 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Its time to change all the passwords<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox will no longer provide security updates for non current versions of their browser.  &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/should-you-update-to-firefox5-you-may-not-have-a-choice\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,105],"tags":[1322,1321,46,1323],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fail","category-product-review","tag-firebug","tag-firefoox","tag-security","tag-web-browsers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/firefox_anime.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-1rp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}