[citation][nom]happymissle1[/nom]@ in_the_loop actually ff developers would be happier if users didnt worry about versions numbers and just had an up to date, secure firefox. They are not trying to "haz big numbers lol!"FF now increments version numbers because they include new non-backwards compatible apis in each version. Those new apis used to have to wait a year or more as only security updates were released. Now the now goodness is released as soon as its done and tested.Nobody cares what version of youtube you are running, soon what version of ff or chrome wont matter so much either. Modern web browsers need to move at the speed of the web and I am personally glad the mozilla is up for the challenge. At least they put privacy first![/citation]
I agree with you that it is good that Mozilla is up for the challenge with Chrome.
I prefer using FF over Chrome (but use both).
And I konw that numbers shouldn't matter. You could just as well call it A, B, C (or the different codenames that each new version have).
Or any kind of symbol, like ¤.
I can see that, BUT, it used to be that an increment by one meant some big exciting changes.
As it is now with the almost rolling updates almost nothing seems to change.
I guess they could do it at 10, 20 and so on, but it didn't seem to happen.
It was something that marked something to really look forward to, sometimes a complete change.
There were even much bigger changes in the point releases (like from 3.1 to 3.5) than what has happened from FF5 to FF11.
And another strange thing is that they still call the minor bug fixes .0x (10.01, 10.02 and so on).
Since the release cycle is so short, shouldn't they have called them 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and so on, since they seem to have in some way increased the version "significance" (for lack of better words) by 10?
Anyway, the focus seems to be on making FF faster, less memory hungry and more stable.
I think it always has been secure, but that is also very much up to the users to install different add-ons that enhance security, like no-script, ad-block, WOT and so on (and avoid the ones that could mean trouble).
As it is now, FF is checking off every point that Chrome was doing better and improves on it.
The big update will be when we don't have to restart the browser if installing add-ons.
And I wonder if they will let each tab run in its own process (like Chrome), so one tab won't crash the whole browser.
But that maybe would force them rebuild too much from the ground?
And that is also probably also a reason why chrome use so much memory with many tabs open,since the processes are running in isolation.
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