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Firefox 5 Scheduled For June 21 Release
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has updated its Firefox 5 release schedule and is apparently upbeat that it can release the browser even earlier than previously anticipated. The release was pulled in by a week to June 21. Mozilla is now also using a Chrome-like versioning system for Firefox — where the final Firefox 5 may be called Firefox 5.6.44.144, for example."
Of all the stupid features from Chrome to pick up, the version numbers is, by far, the dumbest. Has anyone considered how stupid a version number in the high double digits might be? Firefox 81 seems kind of clunky, doesn't it?
I think that Windows went from 3.x to 90+something and even got up to the low thousands, before coming back down to single digits.
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Firefox Red/Blue, Firefox Yellow, Firefox Gold/Silver!
or maybe Gemstone based versioning like Firefox Ruby/Sapphire!
Maybe all the features they took out of it from 3.6 to 4 they're putting back and calling 5.
I'm trying to find an older version of Linux to use on a really old computer. Does anybody know where I can find Slackware 6? I can't seem to find it anywhere! It's like it doesn't even exist!
Maybe they should just have seasons -- Firefox 4 Summer edition, Firefox 4 Winter edition, etc...
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