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Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4

Jun 23, 2011, 10:19

Parallax Abstraction

Blue wrote on Jun 23, 2011, 09:13:
eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 23, 2011, 02:55:
But that said, FF5 is just FF 4.02 really why they felt the need to bump a whole 99 revisions up is a mystery, and fairly dumb.. but not really relevant. Its a security update for FF 4.01 and thus "not installing it" is not an option.

I'm guessing that browser revision numbers have recently become a "whose is bigger" contest, and they are playing catch up. Chrome is up to version 13.0.782.32 beta-m, and this is just to fight the perception for casual users that Firefox is falling behind.

That's the biggest problem. Chrome has started a new version number arms race because Google thinks that a minor update is worthy of an entire version number increase. Unfortunately, your average Joe clueless-about-technology sees bigger numbers in Chrome and thinks it must be evolving much more quickly than Firefox, even though it isn't. Google's the only one playing this game, Mozilla should just stay out of it.




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Comment [quote="Parallax Abstraction"Jun 23, 2011, 10:19][quote="Blue"Jun 23, 2011, 09:13][quote="eRe4s3r"Jun 23, 2011, 02:55]But that said, FF5 is just FF 4.02 really why they felt the need to bump a whole 99 revisions up is a mystery, and fairly dumb.. but not really relevant. Its a security update for FF 4.01 and thus "not installing it" is not an option. [/quote] I'm guessing that browser revision numbers have recently become a "whose is bigger" contest, and they are playing catch up. Chrome is up to version 13.0.782.32 beta-m, and this is just to fight the perception for casual users that Firefox is falling behind. [/quote] That's the biggest problem. Chrome has started a new version number arms race because Google thinks that a minor update is worthy of an entire version number increase. Unfortunately, your average Joe clueless-about-technology sees bigger numbers in Chrome and thinks it must be evolving much more quickly than Firefox, even though it isn't. Google's the only one playing this game, Mozilla should just stay out of it. [/quote]

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