关于诺顿产品与Firefox兼容性的官方说明

eugenew

在诺顿官方英文论坛看到的，里面有说明为何研制工具栏与火狐相容的事情，连结如下：先把原文贴上，之后再来翻译，谢谢大家：)

公布日期：04/29

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Norton-product-compatibility-with-Firefox-Updates/td-p/443808

Norton product compatibility with Firefox Updates

In the last few weeks, we have had several forumusers ask questions about Firefox compatibility. We would like to consolidateall this in a single forum post that hopefully will answer the majority of yourquestions.

Why does ittake so long for Norton to release updates to support newer Firefox releases?

Both Firefox and Norton are on separate releaseschedules. It is very hard for Norton to follow Firefox schedules.

As I mentioned in my previous post, we regularlytest with Firefox Beta releases to make sure we work correctly. However, asPieter pointed out, Mozilla does tend to break compatibility quite late intheir Beta cycle. Since we know this has happened a few times, we tend to beconservative and only enable the toolbar for the versions that we tested with.We would rather our toolbar become disabled than crash the entire browser.

Some of you have wondered why other add-ons remaincompatible. In general, Firefox has two types of add-ons: add-ons written inJavaScript, and binary add-ons. JavaScript add-ons have been found to be morecompatible. However, for performance and security reasons, Norton add-ons arebinary add-ons which use interfaces that Mozilla tend to break quite often betweenreleases.

Going forward, we are working with Mozilla to helpimprove this process so that we can release supported Norton Toolbar versionsin a timely manner. We are encouraged by their more recent responses and wehope that the process will be much smoother with future releases of Firefox.

Why is NortonToolbar hotfix not compatible with FF 4.01?

In general, Mozilla does not break interfacecompatibility in a minor update (for example between 4.01 and 4.0). So we tendto mark our extension compatible with minor releases. However, since the hotfixreleased to support FF 4.0 was tested in a limited manner, we marked itcompatible with FF 4.0 only.

Our Intrusion Prevention add-on however, can do itsjob using a more limited set of interfaces which do not break often. Inaddition, the Intrusion Prevention add-on is data driven and can dynamicallydisable certain functions based on compatibility levels, without any visibleuser impact. So we felt confident about how it will work with FF 4.0 and laterand hence enabled support for these releases.

Now here comes the good news: we are working onreleasing a patch for NIS 2011 and N360 v5 which will add compatibility forNorton Toolbar with FF 4.0 (and all future minor updates of FF 4.0 – such as4.01 or 4.02 etc.). This patch will be released very soon. Expect an updatefrom us within the next week.

If Firefox releases a major update like a 4.1 or a4.5, since they do not guarantee interface compatibility, we will have torelease an update to NIS and N360 to support it. We do this so as to not causecrashes or any other more severe problems when you update your browser.

beta2047

没有开启工具栏

st1217

用在线翻译，看懂了个大概，惭愧。。。

eugenew

不好意思，翻譯來晚了，翻譯時，筆者仍有幾句話不明意思，需要大家指教，謝謝 : )
除了工具列，也提到了IPS。

公布日期：04/29

诺顿产品与Firefox更新之兼容性说明

就在之前几个星期，有使用者在我们的论坛提到跟Firefox兼容的议题。在此，我们想在篇文章里答复一些主要的疑惑。

为何诺顿产品需要很长的时间才能发布跟新版Firefox兼容的修正档案呢？

诺顿和Firefox一样有不同的产品发布期程，想要诺顿依照Firefox的期程上有其困难度。

正如我之前提到的，我们会定时测试Firefox的测试版本以确认我们产品的可用性。然而，Mozilla在其测试阶段时，并没将兼容性议题独立测试。（译者按：这句话翻起来怪怪的）。对此现象我们也已察觉多次，也只能很保守地说希望我们的工具栏可以跟我们正测试的Firfox版本兼容。比起让浏览器当机，不兼容是我们更宁愿看到的。

有些人可能会质疑为什么其他扩充组件还是不兼容。大致来说，Firfox有两种不同的扩充组件：分别是用Java撰写的以及Binary的（译者按：这个字不知道意思）。前者相对于后者来说是相容新较大的。然而，考虑到效能及安全性，诺顿工具栏属于Binary的扩充组件，因此在用户接口上跟Mozilla就有分别（就不兼容）了。

从此开始，我们正与Mozilla一起探究此议题，让我们能更及时研发兼容的诺顿工具栏。他们能很迅速地会答我们研制上的提问，对此我们感到鼓舞，也希望此程序（工具栏）在未来的Firefox新版本中能更流畅。

为何诺顿工具栏的重大更新未相容Firefox 4.0.1？

大致上，Mozilla在小更新版本中并没针对接口兼容性做调整（如4.0与4.0.1）（译者按：这句话也怪怪的）。因此，我们倾向让我们的扩充组件兼容于这些小更新版本。但，基于Firefox 4.0重大修正只测试了些许时候，故我们只让其兼容于4.0的版本。

另一个组件（入侵防御IPS）能在有限接口资源下运作。它的特性是data-driven（译者按：被动，有入侵时才侦测），也可动态调整依照与Firefox的兼容性停止某些功能。因此使用者就不易察觉（不兼容的情形）。因此，对于IPS，我们有信心其对于之后Firefox的兼容性。

现在，有个好消息：我们正研发一个针对Firefox 4及其后小更新版本的诺顿工具栏修正檔（如：4.0.1，4.0.2等等）。很快就会发布，可能在下星期。

如果有大更新时（如;4.1或者4.5），因为其无法确保接口兼容性，故我们会发布更新加以修正，让使用者在更新浏览器时不会遇到更大的问题（如：当机）。

古月哥欠

Firefox 虽然不用，但是也希望诺顿能尽快的支持 Firefox新版本

st4844005

反正新NIS1012支持谷歌就行了 从来不玩FF

zlebox

已经支持了

244931722

这叫挖坟吗？
都一个月的帖子了