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Firefox 5 Scheduled For June 21 Release

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-rest-on-them-laurels dept.

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."

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  1. High version numbers by Sonny+Yatsen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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  2. Patrick Volkerding should be in charge by slackzilly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then the latest Firefox would be realeased when it's ready to be released. Come to think of it, he should run the world.

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  3. Re:Chrome and Firefox's Development Process by dstyle5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For those of us who work on browser-based products for large monolithic corporations this is going to be a gong show. Companies are always looking for guarantees of "Official Support" for browser X, version Y and now that you guys are going to be pumping out new major version numbers frequently that means browser QA/verification is going to have to occur far more often now. Not to mention having to test products against a quickly increasing number of versions.