I'm really getting sick of people complaining about Firefox's release schedule.
Look people, Firefox changed their version numbering system. Why do the fuck do you care? Does it really make that much a difference to you whether you're on version 5, or 1.5, or 0.1.5, or 0.5, or 1.0.5? No! So stop complaining. If you don't like the versioning schedule, switch to a browser that has a different schedule (Opera or Safari are the only two i can think of).
Haven't you read the article before commenting ? He isn't complaining about the new versioning (although he mentions that he finds it stupid), what he complains about is its implementation:
> Chrome is running on a major version update once every 6 weeks or so, but the beauty of chrome is that it’s silent and quiet, doesn’t interrupt the user. Google being the law unto themselves has decided on this major version system, and thats ok, because they hide it very well, most users aren’t bothered by it, or could find it if you asked them.
> Firefox updates on the other hand, are of the most obnoxious variety intrusive, inconvenient, and obstructive. It forces the user to make a choice to upgrade, forces the user to stop browsing then insists on taking a very long time to upgrade. Most intrusive.
> Once upgraded it disables most the plugins as they are not yet compatible, thats the real catch, with the auto disable of all plugins till they are compatible I’m left with a version of firefox that basically doesn’t work for me.
First off, this is not just a question of version numbering. 6.0 is not really just 5.0.whatever. Mozilla made a decision to release fewer new features more often, rather than lots of new features less often. Each release is now introducing new stuff, new APIs' and things are breaking.
Therefore, it makes a huge difference for those of us in corporate IT who have to manage software rollouts. I used to allow automatic updates at my company. I have now turned them off. Firefox is bad enough, but the killer is Thunderbird.
For example, We especially rely upon Lightning functioning with every release. When 5.0 came out, Lightning didn't auto-update, and the previous version didn't work on 5.0. There WAS a working version that we were able to use, manually. We can't afford this crap. If our users are constantly updating every time TB or Firefox asks them too, critical stuff breaks, and thus we are left with a support nightmare.
Look people, Firefox changed their version numbering system. Why do the fuck do you care? Does it really make that much a difference to you whether you're on version 5, or 1.5, or 0.1.5, or 0.5, or 1.0.5? No! So stop complaining. If you don't like the versioning schedule, switch to a browser that has a different schedule (Opera or Safari are the only two i can think of).