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Really cheapens the numbering of versions. We're going to have Firefox 1243053 soon.

• nowarninglabel 15y ago
  Uh, no, not really. They are shipping 4 versions a year, so if they keep the current pace, we in fact won't see version 1243053 until the year 312774 Granted I hope we have transcended browsers by that point. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap
  • meric 15y ago
    It's almost 9 releases per year (every 6 weeks). So by year 2015 we will be looking at Firefox 30. Makes the Firefox 4 look kind of obsolete...
    • Blarat 15y ago
      I sure hope that we have enough advances in 4 years to make todays browsers obsolete...
• floppydisk 15y ago
  I think we'll see a phase out of version numbers on public facing download sites and just have "Firefox" instead of "Firefox v4, v5" etc. Internally, devs might have Firefox 1243053 but we might never see that as the version number, sadly.
  • mbrubeck 15y ago
    This is already happening; for example, the official announcement of Firefox 6 on the Aurora channel does not contain the word "six" or the numeral "6" anywhere: http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/05/27/firefoxaurora/ http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/05/27/firefoxaur... Same for the Firefox 5 Beta announcement: http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/05/20/firefoxbeta/ http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/05/20/firefoxbet...