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Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla is planning to release four new versions of its open source browser by the end of this year. That means Firefox 4, Firefox 5, Firefox 6, and Firefox 7 are all slated to ship in 2011. Mozilla was originally planning on having Firefox 4 out by the end of last year, but it had to delay the release. The last release was Beta 10 but there are still probably two more betas, at least one release candidate, and of course a final build. It's clear the company no longer thinks this model is a good one, and wants to accelerate its release cycle, much like Google did with Chrome."
More detailed information on the accelerated development cycle and the major features intended for each new version are available on Mozilla's Firefox 2011 Roadmap.
Someone has caught the chromoenza!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
So users should respond by adding a "0." to the front of all the version numbers.
Mozilla should move the other direction. They should follow the W3C lead and dispense with versions altogether and simply release "Firefox" that displays "HTML".
What could possibly go wrong?
"Man is nothing without the works of man" -- Helvetius
>>>Which, one might argue, makes them point releases instead of major releases. If 5 is only adding a few features from 4, and fixing bugs, then why isn't it 4.1?
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I tried to make that same argument about Windows Seven, that it's really just Vista with bugfixes but nobody buys that argument, and instead insist Seven is a separate OS even though the number indicates otherwise (incremented from 6.0 to 6.1). They claim the numbering system is "completely arbitrary". And maybe they're right.
BTW it's a balmy 0 degrees today and my car was Not covered with snow. It was covered with rain - albeit frozen. And white. And war is peace. And I am not typing on Firefox 3.51, but Mozilla 10. Ooops I mean Netscape 11. Well anyway it's got a picture of a cute dragon/gecko/lizard thing.
(This is meant to be "funny" for those of ye who are humor-impaired. Ooops, I mean comic-challenged. Or is it vertically challenged? I get confused. Double+good.)
Information wants to be expensive AND wants to be free. So you have Value vs. Cheap distribution fighting each other.
Why not just express version numbers in binary?
Thus version 4 would be released as version 100, and version 5 would be 101
That should be enough for this year , and jump way ahead of the opposition.