User counts for Firefox continue to increase. Its marketshare may be decreasing, but that doesn't translate to dropping usage numbers in a rapidly growing market.

Probably dating myself...

I think your ID does that job fairly well ;)

Rest in Peace, Steve. You were a visionary and a true inspiration to many of us. You accomplished more in life than most of us could do in 10. Your legacy and story will live forever. For me, there's no greater honor than that.

Thank you for everything.

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You can remove the signature code (it's all in the META-INF dir IIRC) and the add-on will continue to install and work. I'm not sure what happens if you change it in your profile while being installed, but I suspect it should still work.

Not that I agree with the GP on this being a good solution...

Nope. I enjoyed it as well.

You're probably talking about the 3GS, which is a different model. Those are still available, yes.

Sufficiently large corporations should know how to configure Firefox in their employees' machines so that they are not automatically updated until they decide to. For example, I know IBM is currently using 3.6 and was in the process of certifying 4.0. While the default behavior in the future will be to silently update, it shouldn't be difficult for large businesses to stay on a specific version they know they can support.

It will be a problem because only the latest versions will get security updates, though.

The idea is to eventually implement silent background updates, so you won't even know which version of Firefox you are using. It will just be "Firefox".

AMO Editors (extension approvers) don't reject add-ons due to having a maxVersion that is "too big". In fact, the only upper bound is the set of maxVersions that the addons site allows. You're probably right on 8.0a1 becoming available only recently.

I don't think you should worry about Firebug being incompatible with a release version of Firefox. Recent versions of Firebug should be compatible with Beta and even Nightly versions of Firefox. Same goes for most major add-ons. The rest can be a hit-or-miss, though, but the majority are up to date.

My understanding is that the standardization of ActiveX for secure banking in South Korea happened before SSL was well-known and widespread. Also, this was a country-wide standard, not something that was internally chosen by banks.

This is a good read if you're interested.

Most popular extensions have caught up. The Compatibility Dashboard has more details. However, we can't force all developers to update and inevitably some add-ons will lag behind or be abandoned.

Actually, the release date was planned well ahead of today, and it was released because there were no more blocker bugs.

The long beta cycle for Firefox 4 has paid off in this regard, and the majority of add-ons are already compatible. Pretty much every popular add-on already works well in Firefox 4.