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cannot upgrade PPC Mac to newer version of Flash or Firefox, why disable plugin? Why not provide secure version?

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ling0
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Since PPC Macs like mine [G5 dual 2ghz running Tiger] cannot upgrade to newer versions of Flash or Firefox, why not provide a more secure version of the plug-in for these versions so they can still be used? It's unconscionable to orphan your products to either insecure plugins or to unusability

Since PPC Macs like mine [G5 dual 2ghz running Tiger] cannot upgrade to newer versions of Flash or Firefox, why not provide a more secure version of the plug-in for these versions so they can still be used? It's unconscionable to orphan your products to either insecure plugins or to unusability

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the-edmeister
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You are running a 3rd party build, it isn't created by Mozilla.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; rv:7.0b1) Gecko/20110903 Firefox/7.0b1 TenFourFox/G5

The creators of tenforfox are responsible for disabling certain Plugins.
https://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported

Along with the fact that Mozilla doesn't make the plugins for Firefox and 3rd party versions.

ling0
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My question challenges Mozilla to fix the problem for its users. You guys write more than just Composer code, don't you?!