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Firefox 1.1 Scrapped

Posted by Zonk on from the doing-it-up-right dept.

An Anonymous Reader writes: "The Firefox team has decided to scrap the planned 1.1 release (already in Alpha 2) and instead release the final version as 1.5 due to the significant number of bug fixes and changes. The 1.5 feature complete beta is expected next month." From the article: "We are planning for a Firefox 2.0 and 3.0, but will divide the planned work over (at this point) three major Milestones, 1.5 (September 2005), 2.0 (unscheduled) and 3.0 (unscheduled). All major development work will be done on the Mozilla trunk, and these releases will coincide with Gecko version revs."

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  1. Nonsensical change by Anspen · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Seems like a silly vanity decision. If the changes are not big enough for a 2.0 just make it 1.1.

    Especially a piece of software that in its 1.x.x run so far hasn't even done a .1 change.

    This will only confuse people. "Oh No! I missed versions 1.1-1.4!"