Firefox 1.0.x sunset announcement and Breezy

[john levin]

Matthew East wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:46 +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
>> On 4/16/06, Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Chances are they'll continue to get security patches as necessary but that's
>>> about it.
>> That's correct.
> 
> John's question was who is going to provide these security patches. It
> seems like Mozilla will not.
> 
> ("These releases will include the final set of official security and
> stability updates for Firefox 1.0.x, Thunderbird 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite
> 1.7.x.")
> 
> Matt
> 

Yes, that's the question: who is going to provide the security patches? 
Maintaining Firefox 1.0 independently of the Mozilla Foundation strikes 
me as an absolute nightmare. And the chances are, with Dapper lasting 
three years on the desktop, that 1.5 will stop being supported by 
Mozilla at some point during the lifecycle.

John