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After being a FF user for so many years (since at least there was no hype behind it among average users), I caved in to Chrome finally and completely. Moved my bookmarks (lost tagging), history and sync, all to Google.
I wish they'd just bump the version number to 30 then save major revision numbers for major revisions. I don't see anything in here that would warrant anything but a bump from 15 to 15.5 under the old Firefox revision standards.
The point is that Firefox never wants to ever have a "major release" again. Small frequent changes work much better for everybody. So what are their options? Keep incrementing the minor number? The major major number then becomes meaningless and you end up with absurdities like "2.6.39".
I think the solution they chose is much better than the one Linus chose. What's the difference between 2.6.39 and 3.0? About the same as 2.6.38 to 2.6.39, and 3.0 to 3.1. Eventually they'll get up to 3.BIG and he'll call it 4.0 for no particularly reason.
Still my favourite browser by far. I usually have 3-4 windows open and up to several hundred tabs and Firefox handles this better than anything else.
I wish they'd just bump the version number to 30 then save major revision numbers for major revisions. I don't see anything in here that would warrant anything but a bump from 15 to 15.5 under the old Firefox revision standards.
How come no one complains about Chrome version numbers?
Is 16 worth installing? Firefox used to be my favourite browser, but I stopped using it when the almost daily install and "reload or disable" addons cycle became too painful.
That cycle should be invisible now. It updates silently in the background and should only notify you if an extension gets disabled.
Still my favourite browser by far. I usually have 3-4 windows open and up to several hundred tabs and Firefox handles this better than anything else.
With the "Tree Style Tab" extension you can manage tons of tabs in a comfortable and ordered way.
Still not the feature I'd like in there: A way to open link here instead of in new tab or window
Still not the feature I'd like in there: A way to open link here instead of in new tab or window
Hasn't that been a feature from day one. Are you sure you haven't got the option ticked that forces links to open in external tabs/windows?
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That cycle should be invisible now. It updates silently in the background and should only notify you if an extension gets disabled.
And unlike in previous eras of Firefox, extensions are not typically disabled by the version bump.
It was a really long road but with 3.6 essentially gone and silent updates, developers can worry a lot less about legacy in the Firefox world.