jandarsun8

I use FF as my browser and all of a sudden they are pushing out different versions like it's going out of style. I used FF 2 for ever, then 3 came out and it was roughly two years before 4 came out. When 4 finally did come out, it was a major upgrade and everyone that used FF was looking forward to it. Two months later, version 5 came out and I thought it was a major security issue to warrant a complete version number and that version 4 was hosed somehow. I've now read that version 6 will be out this week and that version 7 by the end of the year.

My question is, why the new version numbers all of a sudden? In one year, they will have upgraded four different versions. Are the changes that different to warrant such a version change?

Your thoughts? Me personally, I don't really care for the revisions that often. Security holes patch, totally agree that should be done but not total revision numbers for minor upgrades to something.

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IvanV

It's just marketing. From hat I've heard, 6 has exactly the same look and feel as 5, though it does have some under the hood improvements. So basically they are chasing after Google which has already released Chrome 13 (and a preview version is already available for Chrome 15) because of those users who think along the lines of "Bigger number => better browser".

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gk8aq

Maybe the company trying to catch all the rest of browsers in numbers. LOL. Indeed its a joke! What they have to do is that they could apply all the updates in 4 like 4.5 or 4.6 or 4.7 instead of 5, 6 and 7... Furthermore I am still waiting for ff x64 browser to come! (official release of course)

BlueMak

While FF upgrades have been painless so far, and the best of all other browsers I have ever used, they are going crazy with the numbers.
Still, not as annoying as that whole "web 2.0" thing.

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Matth

Every Six Weeks | Future Releases

A six week cycle, not sure if rapid cycle is good or bad, though it does add some pace to arrivals that was not there before, but some people prefer long term releases with security updates.

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BlueMak

Perhaps if they slowed things down they wouldn't have so many holes to patch up and not have to release a new version so often.
I'm just saying...

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Tyrsonswood

Now that would make just too much gawd damn sense.........

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jandarsun8

No kidding.. my problem with all of this is that we use FF as our default browser at work and we've got about 380 pc's that we need to push up dates to. This has become kind of a pain as we have web based apps we need to make sure work with newer versions.

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