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What's up with Firefox updates?
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It looks like Mozilla is quickly releasing new versions of Firefox. From what I read the reason they are making large leaps in version numbering is simply because they want to catch up to "9" because Internet Explorer is at this version number. Of course this is meaningless since most people don't know what version web browser they are using and the other percentage of people aren't tricked by version numbering. I know Chrome is on 12 or 13 or whatever, but really, browser version shouldn't matter anymore... or should they? Why doesn't Mozilla and Microsoft adopt the updating scheme of Google and have it upgrade and install silently?
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So 5 is the current version, 6 is the nightly builds of what's coming next and 7 is the "next next" version.
But it leads to really stupidly funny actual headlines like "Firefox 7 is 5x faster than Firefox 5" the day Firefox 5 is released.
I don't know what happens when 6 becomes real, does 7 then become nightly builds and 8 is the next next version?
Or are they going to pull a Land Rover and be stupid with numbers "5 is NOW 6 and 6 is now 7!"
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However, if marketing says anything it is that people are suckers for the bigger better deal and MS/Explorer have a few advantages over everyone by default. Gotta fight wherever you can. Bigger number, same browser, more share.
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I've also heard a bunch of other reasons, so I'm not exactly sure what's real here.
It made sense, I think, because there was only like 4 lines of code difference between two of the full number revisions. Though I'm not sure of the real reason.
Yea I didn't even bother looking at the comments because I knew it'd be ridiculous. Since you can still retrieve the version number. But as I said for regular people they don't know what version number they are using for browsers and I think it's a much better idea these days to update browsers frequently and silently. Browsers should function more like a live service rather than a traditional program if that makes sense.
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"We are at 4 for production and 5 on dev" will be impossible when it's "i have... um... tuesdays? version on production but no idea what we have on dev"
It's not hidden, you just have to type about:support in the browser bar to see it. Since corporate IT people should be smart enough to do this, it shouldn't matter. In fact, this should be good for corporate IT people. They don't have to worry about users calling them about "not having the latest Internet version" because they looked at the about box and saw a lower number than they wanted to.
And in about 11 weeks, you'll be using the Firefox 8 version currently in Aurora. It's rather nice. Memory usage is improved. It's ever-so-slightly snappier. Also, they made ripping tabs off and moving them between windows work like it does in Chrome.
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Does it happen on every website? Links under the influence of Javascript won't necessarily work properly.
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So yeah, release numbers are useless.
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Firefox is guaranteed to always have better extensions. XUL and all that.
Firefox's sync is also more reliable, longterm. The server is open source, so I can run my own sync server if I wanted to. I'm not putting my passwords into a black box, even a pretty one made by Google.
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Oh, that reminds me. The "open tabs in other browsers" thing is almost useful, but we have to be pretty close to the point where the entire DOM can be copied back and forth, right? Being able to open something like Freenode's webchat on one machine and pick up seamlessly on another would be really neat.