Firefox 5 In Aurora Channel

blair1q writes "Mozilla.org has added a new intermediate development state, Aurora, to its Firefox development chain. Coming between Nightly-Build and Beta, it adds a fourth sense to the meaning of 'the current version of Firefox' (the Release version fills out the trope). And now they have populated the Aurora channel with what will eventually become Firefox 5. The intent is to reduce release-version cycle times by allowing more live testing of new features before the integrated code gets into a Beta version. The inaugural Aurora drop includes 'performance, security and stability improvements.' Firefox 5 is scheduled to enter Beta on May 17, and Release on June 21. Downloads of all of the active channels are available from the Firefox channels webpage."

Comments

This is all getting slightly ridiculous...

[DeusExInfernus]

I'm getting rather tired of everyone paying more attention to release dates, version numbers, and now the names of production and testing phases than the quality of the actual product/program.

Re:Only half as good as Chome

[Jugalator]

Won't happen. What *is* insanity today, however, is sticking to a yearly or bi-yearly release cycle when the HTML standards evolve faster than that. Shorter cycles implies less features indeed, but this also means that there's not as much to test before each release, so the risks of following the evolution of the web better isn't increased despite following it better.

This is basically a very simplified version of the Chromium dev's motivation to move to this.

But it's of course more fun to think it's a version number game. However, just wait 'til Chrome 27 and you'll see that version numbers will lose their meaning soon enough, just like Google and others intended.

Re:Only half as good as Chome

[FatLittleMonkey]

I have 3.6, and it seems I'll be sticking to it until this "my version number is bigger then yours" insanity finally ejaculates

<Sigh> Just close your eyes really tight, and say "It's version 3.8! It's version 3.8! It's version 3.8!" and click download. And then stop whining about something that was completely arbitrary to begin with.

Re:Firefox 5? Fix firefox 4 first.

[KozmoStevnNaut]

This is my entire crash log dating back to when I originally installed FF on my current work laptop:

11-04-2011 09:19
21-03-2011 14:18
23-12-2010 09:09
29-11-2010 09:34
09-11-2010 12:29
09-11-2010 12:28
08-11-2010 11:25
03-11-2010 09:51
22-09-2010 12:48
22-09-2010 12:48
28-07-2010 16:00
23-07-2010 04:44
29-06-2010 13:49
29-06-2010 13:49
27-11-2009 14:47
01-09-2009 14:21
19-08-2009 11:14
27-07-2009 15:33
24-06-2009 10:07
15-05-2009 14:53
26-03-2009 12:53
29-07-2008 09:41
20-06-2008 08:57
02-06-2008 10:33
21-05-2008 10:46

25 crashes in a span of 3 years and I use plenty of extensions. You must be doing something very wrong.