> I wouldn't be surprised if FF eventually drops the version number thing and just has a 'stable' and 'exciting' branch type system for their users. That's pre

> I wouldn't be surprised if FF eventually drops the version number thing and just has a 'stable' and 'exciting' branch type system for their users. That's pretty much what we're going for. The version number is still there, but we're phasing numbers out of the discussion when we talk about Firefox. There's the release channel, the beta channel, and the Aurora channel. There's also the Nightly channel and some projects builds (these sets are targeted at developers). Check out https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/ https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/ And yes, we were definitely influenced by what Chrome is doing, though we've adjusted to what's going to work better for us.