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There isn't. jwz mentions that he was unsuccessful lobbying the release of the 3.0 source.[1] For the purposes of this discussion (since you only ask about th
by carussell 15y ago
There isn't.
jwz mentions that he was unsuccessful lobbying the release of the 3.0 source.[1] For the purposes of this discussion (since you only ask about the browser here), according to Brendan, 4 was like 3.[2] Seibel mentions there that Brendan says he tried to get it released, too. The big rewrite that everybody talks about is Gecko (under the stewardship of Gessner, I think), when 5 got ditched and the next release jumped to 6. It's still listed on the MXR homepage (under Classic). Then, ho-ho, there came another new flavor at the genesis of Firefox proper, Aviary, which is also indexed on MXR. I don't know what sets it apart from pre-Aviary besides that it ditched the old XPInstall stuff. (Yeah, XPIs still exist, but most people don't realize that's not XPInstall anymore. That's the new-ish "toolkit" install system.)
1. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/
2. http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/two-rewrites-redux/ http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/two-rewrites-red...
- derrida 15y agoThankyou for the well-referenced response.