Firefox 3.0 comes to an end

The great era of Firefox 3.0 finally comes to an end with Mozilla calling off further updates for the release. "There will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x", said mozilla. The final update, according to mozilla, will be Firefox 3.0.19, due March 30.

Support for Firefox 3.0 was planned to be discontinued in January but due to late release of Firefox 3.6 , it was delayed.

Nicely explained by Stephen Shankland, there seems to be a recent trend in the browsers, trying to frequently upgrade browsers. One of the reasons behind this is to use the energy, time and resources spent in maintaining the old releases in improving the latest ones. Google seems to be the beginner of this shift, Chrome browser automatically updates to the latest version in background.

Browsers are probably the most used softwares in the world. And there is always some tension in the vendors' camp to make their product better than better. So, using most of the man power in developing and improving the browser further looks like a better choice than maintaining oldies.