I don't remember where I read this, but wasn't the version number bumped because it's a separate branch from trunk rather than development on the 4.x branch?
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Originally posted by Ex-Cyber View PostI don't remember where I read this, but wasn't the version number bumped because it's a separate branch from trunk rather than development on the 4.x branch?
So every 3 months a new major version will be released, whereas before they would attempt to add a bunch of new features and wait until it was working before releasing.
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Originally posted by bbordwell View PostThis does not seem to be in the source archives yet (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/), have they moved the location for downloading the source for releases?
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostThey've simply moved to a time-based release schedule rather than basing it on features.
So every 3 months a new major version will be released, whereas before they would attempt to add a bunch of new features and wait until it was working before releasing.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostDo-not-track: a pointless header that anybody who WOULD be inclined to track you would ignore. I don't see any value in this header, it does NOTHING to improve privacy. What would be a nice addition to the android version would be, rather than this pointlessness, PRIVATE BROWSING (no storage of cache/history/cookies/anything to device).
FF5 is noticeably faster for sure...some memory leaks fixed too
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Originally posted by locovaca View PostObviously Mozilla does, otherwise they wouldn't have switched to the "My version number dick is bigger than yours" system.
Also faster turnaround on major version numbers likely gives the impression that more is happening with the software than actually is, worked for Chrome ('hory shet, it's already at version 13!! this software must be so great!!').
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Originally posted by curaga View PostActually the effect is already weaning off, all the Chrome and FF dick-waving is causing everyone to start ignoring major version announcements, even for software that does not follow that model.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostHeh, I stopped caring about FF releases after 1.x series. After that it became just another bloated browser.
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