Re:Firefox 4 Nightly
by InclinedPlane on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @06:17PM
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I don't care what their rationale is, the version numbering ideology of the mozilla foundation is dumb. There's not a good enough reason to stick to version 3.7 for a "version 4" beta, it's super annoying and makes them look amateurish.
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The next version was originally going to be called 3.7, but it was later renamed to Firefox 4.
Starting with beta 1, there will be no more references to Firefox 3.7. As we speak, all version strings are being updated to refer to 4.0 instead.
They have clear roadmaps for each major version number. I'm not so sure I'd consider it dumb.
Re:Firefox 4 Nightly
by InclinedPlane on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @06:41PM
(#1473164)
It's fine as long as you keep consistent naming. Calling 3.7 version 4 is dumb, if you're going to call it 4 then bump up the version number, if you're not going to bump up the version number until later then stop calling it 4.
They're calling it 4. This isn't the official beta. The 3.7 are just old executables lingering in the FTP folder.
firefox-4.0b2pre.en-US: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...