Frequent Firefox up dates?

[Fred Bloggs]

Today, I've just got updated to FF v8. Seems like I've gone through a ton of versions the last few weeks, any idea why this is?

[eek]

Today, I've just got updated to FF v8. Seems like I've gone through a ton of versions the last few weeks, any idea why this is?

They've moved to the chrome model of release little and often.

[Cliphead]

I still prefer v3.6.x

[Fred Bloggs]

They've moved to the chrome model of release little and often.

Thanks, full version releases though, we'll be on v99,000 by next year!

[yasockie]

The idea is to minimise market fragmentation and force everyone into accepting updates and using current.
This will make life easier for developers of the browser, developers of the websites and finally the end users, actually, everyone except from those ***** who say they prefer netscape navigation on solaris because it has a cute icon.
In theory it also means you should be able to develop against a set of standards, such as W3C CSS 2.1 recommendation, rather than a particular browser, but for now IE is making a strong fight to remain dominant, and only recently dropped below 50% in more tech savvy areas of the Internet.

[TheFaQQer]

I still use IE6. It's great.

[Sysman]

They've moved to the chrome model of release little and often.

Some wag has the theory that they are trying to catch up with IE's numbering system.

[Sysman]

I've found the Real Reason...

They were doing it for cake!

Microsoft has broken away from its traditional celebratory cake for Firefox releases.

The software giant has a habit of sending cakes to Mozilla after the foundation ships an update to its Firefox browser. Mozilla’s recent Firefox 8 release has stemmed the flow of cupcakes from Redmond. Microsoft didn’t ship a cupcake to Mozilla for its Firefox 8 release. “We didn’t do it since we thought it was getting to be overkill,” said a Microsoft spokesperson. “Every six weeks is a lot of cupcakes”, they added.

Full story

[d000hg]

Thanks, full version releases though, we'll be on v99,000 by next year!

So does Chrome. We're on v15 so far.

[eek]

So does Chrome. We're on v15 so far.

Not quite client co runs mainline Chrome which this afternoon is 17.0.932.0 dev-m. The home laptop runs canary which I think is on v19 at the moment.

If you use Chrome though the version number is irrelevant. You are always on the latest version and if you haven't closed the browser down for a while and a new version has been released it will nag you until you restart.