Ah, that's why that Firefox add-on was valid up to version 6

[lovingboth]

I saw in MintUpdate that there was a Firefox update and thought that the version number (5.0) was a mistake. But no, they've released Firefox 5.

Adding new features: nice.

Moving the whole 4.x release to 'unsupported' status three months after its launch: not nice.

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[reddragdiva]

As far as Ubuntu is concerned, 5 is the support for 4.

[lovingboth]

It's really 4.1 at most.

[reddragdiva]

BIGGER BIGGER NUMBERS BIGGER ALL THE TIME

[lovingboth]

You predicted the whole future of Bitcoin at this point...

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

Cor. Was there something Very Wrong in v4 to spark this perhaps?

[lovingboth]

No, they've just moved to much shorter times between releases. They're expecting to be at version 7 by the end of the year, despite 6 and 7 being 'smaller incremental updates'.

I had thought the days of 'Oh, the competition are on Product v10, let's skip a few version points to catch up' were over.

For people needing stability (see the share of the commercial market still using IE6), it's a nightmare. You either need to update every three months with all the retesting and deployment issues that involves, or end up with insecure browsers because no-one's fixing the known bugs.

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. And Bah. And ta. :)