Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan

CWmike writes "Mozilla delivered on Tuesday the final version of Firefox 5, the first edition under the new faster-release regime it kicked off earlier this year. The company also patched 10 bugs in Firefox 5, including one in the browser's handling of the WebGL 3-D rendering standard that rival Microsoft has called unsafe. Firefox 5 looks identical to its predecessor, Firefox 4, but Mozilla's made changes under the hood. Mozilla has denied copying Google Chrome's upbeat schedule but analysts have noted the similarities and pointed out the need of all browser makers to step up the pace. Because of the shorter development cycle, Mozilla called out relatively few new features in Firefox 5."

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Firefox 5 == Firefox 4 Beta 1
Firefox 6 = Firefox 4 Beta 2 ...
Firefox 457 = Firefox 4 RC 1 alpha.

The problem with this retarded change in version numbers is that their target audeince isn't going to be affected by the version number game. We geeks don't give a fuck what the version number is, and we know you're bullshitting with the stupid version number increases. We all still know firefox is just as buggy, bloated and overall broken on 'version 5' as it was on version 4, except now there are a few NEW half implemented features that no one cares about and/or will never be finished properly.

All they are doing is pushing themselves further from the business environment and relegating themselves to more of a geek toy.

Mozilla has become Netscape. It is no longer useful. Just a bunch of over paid douche bags who sit around and write code they want to write rather than actually producing something useful.

Its too bad they didn't do a better job of cleaning house the last time netscape failed, looks like they left enough of the old guard that its happened again.

I don't want to hate Mozilla, but for fucks sake give me a little help here, Mozilla has turned into an example of how not to do it. Its as if their goal is to demonstrate all the wrong things to do when trying to produce a respectable high-end OSS application.