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Krupski
03-16-2012, 12:47 AM
Anyone noticed every few weeks a new Firefox comes out?

What should be maintenance releases (like 10.01, 10.02, etc...) now are bumped up by a whole version!

In the past few months I went from Firefox 3.6.3 to Firefox 11.0!

I wonder why they do that? Maybe people perceive that "Firefox 11" is better than "Internet Explorer 9" (well, it IS but that's not the point)... I wonder if people think "11" is better than "9"?

:wondering:
LAGC
03-16-2012, 02:12 AM
Yeah, its just plain ol' version inflation, because a lot of idiots only look at the version number when comparing browsers. Many Linux distributions have done the same thing over the years, trying to one-up the others.

There was some significant changes between Firefox 3.xx and 4.xx, but everything since has been minor, so we should still be on 4.xx, IMHO.
Bluntforce
03-16-2012, 02:17 AM
It's a trap!

:moe-getem:
Cypher
03-16-2012, 07:19 AM
They want you to think it's always cutting edge. Also I think they want the version number higher than IE.
Warthogg
03-18-2012, 09:40 AM
Think those are security updates....or at least my last was. Why the full version jump to 11.0 I do not know.


Wart
Krupski
03-18-2012, 12:53 PM
Think those are security updates....or at least my last was. Why the full version jump to 11.0 I do not know.


Wart

I think it's just a numbers game. Firefox "11" must be better than "10".... ?
El Duce
03-18-2012, 02:35 PM
This might help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbVKWCpNFhY