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I keep a copy of Fx 3.6.28 for diagnostic purposes, e. g., to see if an issue can be reproduced on the older (non-HTML5-compliant) browser, information that may be of some use. (A couple of times, they indeed could not.)

After being notified that NS 2.4.3rc3 was available, I tried to d/l it through Add-ons Manager > Find Updates.
It found the update, but there was an d/l error -- twice in a row:

Firefox could not install the file at

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... +fx+sm.xpi

because: Download error
-228

I went to the direct d/l link at latest development build, and it installed immediately, without issue.
There was no issue updating on Fx 12.0 via AMO.

Is AMO refusing updates to Fx 3.6.x now, or was this an anomaly?

Tom T. wrote:I keep a copy of Fx 3.6.28 for diagnostic purposes, e. g., to see if an issue can be reproduced on the older (non-HTML5-compliant) browser, information that may be of some use. (A couple of times, they indeed could not.)

Only for diagnostic purposes? I thought you use for day-to-day surfing here on the forum, after all that is what parts of your user agent string imply.

dhouwn wrote:Only for diagnostic purposes? I thought you use for day-to-day surfing here on the forum, after all that is what parts of your user agent string imply.

Ha! I used Fx 2 for at *least* a year after end-of-support, with UA changed to 3.x, curious to see which of the many bright minds here would notice the discrepancy that you did. (Where were you then? ) No one ever did.

An online bank that said that it would not permit logon with F2 for the sake of user safety, was fooled by that simple trick for almost a year. To this day, I can still login with F2, (so much for "bank security" ), although now the layout is a bit distorted on some of the pages.

Another legit use is that we still have users on F3, as this one.

I guess now that you've outed me, I need to use the genuine piece of bloated, user-unfriendly, horrible-GUI cr*p that is the latest version of "rapid decrease release" of "Let's see how much we can imitate Google Chrome (since Google provides 90+% of our revenue), and the heck with the user".

Or continue on with the more usable ones, with a stern admonition, "Do As I Say, Not As I Do". This machine has layers of lockdown that I don't even care to disclose, but still, best practice is always to use latest stable release.

(And not betas, which may have security vulns. Let someone else, who has the time, effort, and tools to discover and report them, be the guinea pig. )

ALL IMHO. YMMV.