Why are we FORCED to upgrade?

I've been getting seriously fed up with the constant nagging and popups telling me to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox. I used 3.6.28 for centuries, and I am satisfied with the way it looks and works with all of the addons that I use with it. The nagging from v12 came to a feverish pitch and one day in desperation I did the upgrade. Then I had to spend half a day to untangle the mess. I finally managed to make look and function similar to my old version but finds not only that some of my addons will not work, there was a sort of compatibility issue with the version of Flash Player, I need to make my proxy server configuration function correctly. Then he spent another half day to get rid of any trace of FF12 to return to my v3.6. Even after the boxes to uncheck the "check for updates" as recommended in other posts, I still sometimes get a box of nag. So this morning I find that stupid thing itself has updated FF12 without my knowing anything. What happens to Mozilla? It begins to take on a sinister appearance while as big brother or the welfare State, taking away our freedom of choice. I am well aware of the risks of not using the latest versions of everything. I am trying to exercise my right of choice. Senior officials on this forum may well quote the chapter and verse on how its all in our best interest but until Mozilla decides to give me a free computer, I will continue to swim against the tide, getting stronger as a result. This was posted on another thread of a similar topic, and after another sermon on the security flaws, etc etc, the thread has been locked. My question, and that of many others remains unanswered. Why are we not allowed to choose which version we use? We know the risks and accept them. OUR choice. OUR responsibility. If the Firefox team decided to remove our freedom of choice (for our own good) so I guess we'll just have to 'vote with our feet' as they say and find another browser will be slightly less than the attitude of 'big brother knows best '.

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