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Introducing Aurora 9

44 points by maratd 15y ago

vineet 15y ago
I was wondering what Aurora is - apparently a release in between a nightly and a beta: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/04/aurora/ http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/04/aurora/ They really need to call it alpha - or something else so that the users will not need to do a search to figure out what it means.
- AlecSchueler 15y ago
  I'm sure this comes up in every discussion about Aurora, but it's also a confusing name because of the pretty much homophonically named Arora browser.
  - asadotzler 15y ago
    Not really. I don't think most people have ever heard of Arora. I've been tracking browsers pretty closely for a dozen years or so and I've never once run across someone talking about Arora. I did look it up after reading your comment here and it appears to be a mostly still-born effort.
  - cpeterso 15y ago
    "Aurora" is an homage to an old Netscape codename from the late 1990s: http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/9-29-97/326237&EDATE= http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&S...
- 51Cards 15y ago
  There was a discussion about this here on HN when they announced this naming change. At the time it didn't make sense to me and it really still doesn't. The Nightly, Alpha, Beta, RC standard is pretty ubiquitous and I think it's just confusing to swap out one of the terms with a new one. I knew about the name convetion change and I still saw this title and was perplexed for a moment. Edit: found the old article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443719 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443719
  - sbierwagen 15y ago
    Pretty standard... except Chrome calls their alpha releases Canary.
petercooper 15y ago
Aurora 9 introduces the CSS 'font-stretch' property, first suggested back in 1999(!): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 - Notably, only IE has implemented it so far.
- kenjackson 15y ago
  Finally Mozilla will be a modern browswer.
- jackmoore 15y ago
  The world would be better with this left unimplemented.
mbrubeck 15y ago
For some info about new user-facing features in the latest Aurora, see the Future Releases blog post: http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/09/30/firefoxaurora9/ http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/09/30/firefoxaur...
jfb 15y ago
I don't use it, but I'm glad that there's a competitive marketplace in browsers again. Here's hoping some of the better ideas are shameless stolen by Webkit and the Safari team.

44 points by maratd 15y ago

I was wondering what Aurora is - apparently a release in between a nightly and a beta: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/04/aurora/ http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/04/aurora/ They really need to call it alpha - or something else so that the users will not need to do a search to figure out what it means.

AlecSchueler 15y ago
I'm sure this comes up in every discussion about Aurora, but it's also a confusing name because of the pretty much homophonically named Arora browser.
- asadotzler 15y ago
  Not really. I don't think most people have ever heard of Arora. I've been tracking browsers pretty closely for a dozen years or so and I've never once run across someone talking about Arora. I did look it up after reading your comment here and it appears to be a mostly still-born effort.
- cpeterso 15y ago
  "Aurora" is an homage to an old Netscape codename from the late 1990s: http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/9-29-97/326237&EDATE= http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&S...
51Cards 15y ago
There was a discussion about this here on HN when they announced this naming change. At the time it didn't make sense to me and it really still doesn't. The Nightly, Alpha, Beta, RC standard is pretty ubiquitous and I think it's just confusing to swap out one of the terms with a new one. I knew about the name convetion change and I still saw this title and was perplexed for a moment. Edit: found the old article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443719 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443719
- sbierwagen 15y ago
  Pretty standard... except Chrome calls their alpha releases Canary.

petercooper 15y ago

Aurora 9 introduces the CSS 'font-stretch' property, first suggested back in 1999(!): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 - Notably, only IE has implemented it so far.

kenjackson 15y ago
Finally Mozilla will be a modern browswer.
jackmoore 15y ago
The world would be better with this left unimplemented.

mbrubeck 15y ago

For some info about new user-facing features in the latest Aurora, see the Future Releases blog post: http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/09/30/firefoxaurora9/ http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/09/30/firefoxaur...

jfb 15y ago

I don't use it, but I'm glad that there's a competitive marketplace in browsers again. Here's hoping some of the better ideas are shameless stolen by Webkit and the Safari team.