On 2/21/14 8:19 PM, paul g wrote:
> For a basic home/office computer user running an older FireFox version
> say '20.0' under Ubuntu 10.04 etc '2.6.-- kernel' will new web pages and
> webpage design soon require the need for a later version of FireFox or
> Opera to 'surf' the web? 

That version of browser will likely render web pages just fine for a
long time to come.

But, there are numerous security updates for known vulnerabilities that
have been patched with later versions of Firefox. The list can be found
here:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html

IMO, one should upgrade Firefox because of that list.