On the day that support for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 was scheduled to end, an announcement has been posted on the Mozilla Developer News weblog stating that support for Firefox 1.5 has been extended until mid-May.
Once support for Firefox 1.5 ends, no more 1.5.0.x security and stability updates will be released. The last such update was Firefox 1.5.0.11, which was made available on Tuesday 20th March this year. Users are strongly advised to upgrade to the latest Firefox 2 release, currently 2.0.0.3, as soon as possible.
The Mozilla Developer News weblog posting appears to be the only official announcement of the change to the Firefox 1.5 support schedule. Other parts of the Mozilla Corporation website still mention April 24th as the end-of-life date for 1.5.
Zero Day, the ZDNet security weblog, has a post about the Firefox 1.5 support extension, which includes a quotation from the Mozilla Corporation's senior director of product management, Basil Hashem, who says, "The original end-of-life date for Firefox was April 24th, we decided to extend that out by a couple of weeks in order to allow for an additional Firefox 1.5.0.x release that incorporates the ability to accurately offer the user a chance to perform a major update (1.5 -> 2.0)."
