Windows XP and Vista Long Term Support Plan

[Mike Kaply]

The fact that Firefox 52 is the last version that supports plugins might be
another reason to consider supporting it longer than a normal ESR.

I know there are many companies/organizations that are still struggling to
get rid of legacy plugin needs.

Mike

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote:

> On 13/10/16 16:28, Peter Dolanjski wrote:
> > We should obviously do our best to explain things to the user, but we
> > definitely need to keep in mind that the average user will likely not
> > take any action.
>
> I think the principle from Ezekiel 33 applies very well here:
>
> The word of the Lord came to [Ezekiel]: "Son of man, speak to your
> people and tell them: Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the
> people of that land select a man from among them, appointing him as
> their watchman, and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows
> his trumpet to warn the people. Then, if anyone hears the sound of the
> trumpet but ignores the warning, and the sword comes and takes him away,
> his blood will be on his own head. Since he heard the sound of the
> trumpet but ignored the warning, his blood is on his own hands. If he
> had taken warning, he would have saved his life. However, if the
> watchman sees the sword coming but doesn’t blow the trumpet, so that the
> people aren’t warned, and the sword comes and takes away their lives,
> then they have been taken away because of their iniquity, but I will
> hold the watchman accountable for their blood."
> https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel+33&version=HCSB
>
> We are responsible for warning; users are responsible for taking action.
>
> Gerv
>
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