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Wasn't it fast tracked into the release channel? That is, 38.0.5 would have been a patch release on top of 38.0.4. On the bright side, that has lead to a more
by mook 11y ago
Wasn't it fast tracked into the release channel? That is, 38.0.5 would have been a patch release on top of 38.0.4.
On the bright side, that has lead to a more serious look at shipping parts of the browser as first-party extensions. I'm very much looking forward to that, even if I end up leaving all of them on.
- cpeterso 11y agoI see what you mean. 38.0.5 was a special marketing release to promote Pocket and new Hello features. You can see on Mozilla ftp server that the version numbers of the 38.0 patch releases jump from 38.0.1 to 38.0.5 (leaving room for any emergency patch releases of 38.0.1): https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ 38.0 was released on 2015-05-12. 38.0.5 then sat in the Beta channel for two weeks of testing and then it was released on 2015-06-02: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Past_branch_dates https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Past_branch_d...