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Ship Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 in the 2011 calendar year
- jedsmith 16y agoYou know, if they want to keep up with Chrome, they could just skip 5 through 9 and go directly to 10. Wait, that sounds familiar...
- contextfree 16y ago"Our browser goes to 11"
- nelhage 16y agoGentlemen, we cannot allow a version number gap!
- wladimir 16y agoSeems like they caught a serious case of version number megalomania: every release is a major release!
- nightlifelover 16y agoheh I don't take them serious anymore until FF 4 comes out of beta..
- PatrickTulskie 16y agoAmen. FF4 final was supposed to be released at the end of last year. Now we've had 10 betas? C'mon.
- jws 16y agoI like how they don't know what is going to be in Firefox 7, but they know they are shipping it this year. Reminds me of a quote from years ago: I don't know what we are building yet, but we are building it in Sybase with stored procedures. – I think ultimately every man, woman, and child in the US lost $0.50 to that project.
- wmf 16y agoIt works for Ubuntu and Chrome.
- brianwillis 16y agoGoogle fails me. Where is that quote from?
- jasonfried 16y ago"Four technology shipment vehicles in 2011"
- krakensden 16y agoWhy not do the Slackware move, and just skip straight to 7?
- mbrubeck 16y agoMore discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189121 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189121
- badkins 16y agoSince my company is building a plugin/extension for firefox, news like this makes me shudder.
- ch0wn 16y agoI think this is way more interesting than high version numbers: "Process-per-tab to mitigate effects of crashes"
- newman314 16y agoThis is really quite silly. The addons.moz site will have to be modified to deal with version increases as well as extension authors will have to start paying serious attention to version bumps or users will either end up with non-working addons (due to incompatible version numbers) or having to overrider the compat check (how many people do you know that aren't technical that know how to do that)?
- alanh 16y ago> every contributor gets equal say on issues of user interface design and technology prioritization This must by why they shipped those abominable Personas.
- angkec 16y agoshould just ship Firefox 2011, instantly beating Chrome 9 by 2002!