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- ydlr 5y agoVersion numbers are officially out of control.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoIt's a pretty ridiculous scheme done just to copy Chrome, but it also doesn't do much harm in practice. But browser version numbers no longer really have any useful or memorable meaning.
- dblohm7 5y agoIt wasn't done to copy Chrome, but you keep telling yourself that.
- thatguy0900 5y agoJust the fact that both Firefox and Chrome are version 100 as we speak is pretty suspect by itself, not that it really matters why they did it
- dblohm7 5y agoSo trying to shift development processes more toward continuous delivery (within reason, given desktop software) is meaningless, then? Come on.
- thatguy0900 5y agoSure, do that. But by chance they are both on 100?
- Tagbert 5y agoThey each release on a regular schedule. I don’t think that they have the same schedule. You can see each of them incrementing with each release. They have been doing this for several years now. It really is just chance they they are at 100 in roughly the same time.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago> but it also doesn't do much harm in practice I digress on that. I have no fucking[0] idea if Firefox 99 is just a minor upgrade over Firefox 98 or it would completely change the UI and my UX with it. With X.YY to X+1.00 I could, at least, be warned what something crucial could change. Nowadays I'm the hostage of "We think you need to do things THAT way" of whatever fever at Mozilla corp at the moment.[1] [0] I mean it. [1] There was something about themes or colours or whatever in the last ten updates. Did you used it more for than a day?
- tomtom1337 5y ago(Totally agree!) You mean "disagree" here though - "digress" means that you step away from the topic for a moment.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago> step away from the topic for a moment From the topic of the article in this case.
- uniqueuid 5y agoObligatory ”thank you" to Mozilla for their persistence. There is no alternative to having Firefox. I'm using it as my primary browser and so should everybody else.
- johnklos 5y ago
- thaway2839 5y agoAre there any alternatives that don't do stuff like that? For example, the only realistic mainstream alternatives, Edge and Chrome, have you literally logged into the browser with your MS/Google accounts, and can associate everything you do on the browser with your MS/Google account.
- simon04 5y agoDisable every Firefox anti-feature using https://ffprofile.com/ https://ffprofile.com/
- fartcannon 5y agoI've been using Mull on Android and Librefox on Linux.
- tristan957 5y agoWill you be proposing any alternative revenue streams for Mozilla to use? Do you even know what data is being sent to the two listed domains? Or do you just see pings and that annoys you? > services.addons.mozilla.org Have you tried turn off addon auto updates? Could you please share what browser you use? > they run updates automatically This is a feature. Web browser updates are some of the most important updates on your device. Getting any lay person to update their browser is difficult. >your browser stops working until you restart it Untrue. Opening a new tab won't work, but your current tabs are still usable. Firefox will also open all your previously opened tabs after updating. Not really a huge disruption. I use Firefox on Windows and have never had this behavior fyi. Only on Linux. > You come across as a paid advertisement Completely unnecessary.
- drawfloat 5y agoAm I mad or is the Firefox “what’s new page” the same every version? The CSS Grid tool has been in there for years now.