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Firefox 26 is released

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Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by bryanlarsen »

caipre wrote: post #176
winslow wrote: post #113

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What is your solution then if these don't work well?

I'd suggest Semantic Versioning[1]: . . [1]: http://semver.org/ Major releases break the API, so programs that depend upon them may not work. Minor releases add or improve features while preserving existing functionality. Patches fix bugs. This is exactly why having version numbers is important. Even if the number becomes arbitrary, it's existence is necessary to build dependency trees. Aside: I'm not certain, but it…

Most, if not all releases of Firefox have minor API changes. Sometimes it's visible via HTML, sometimes they are only visible to plugins. By semantic versioning, 25.0 is the correct version.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by yuhong »

protomyth wrote: post #55
acdha wrote: post #49

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> If Google didn't buckle like a house of cards on this. I wonder where we'd be? Content providers weren't jumping to more double their storage costs or deal with another immature toolchain so I rather suspect we'd be where we are now: Flash got an extra couple years reprieve until everyone accepts reality and implements H.264. This is particularly true since no matter WebM's merits it was going to be worse when tran…

I dearly wish the MPEG-LA members would just charge for the patents for hardware implementations and go royalty-free for software and content for H.265. It would still make them money and get it standard quick.

I do wonder that if it was declared that math is not patentable simply because it is executed on a computer whether this would apply to hardware implementation too.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by acdha »

PavlovsCat wrote: post #172
acdha wrote: post #131

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This release cycle is great: it's not quite as fast as Chrome but it means that I can start using features for 90+% of the Firefox-using public within months of release rather than years.

Well, the version numbering system has no bearing on the frequency of updates Still, I don't see the difference between 1.0/1.01/1.02 and 1.0/2.0/3.0 -- it's still "3 versions". I say version numbers are bullshit, codenames doubly so.. just make it the release date or build number and be done with it. Automate it, and let no human ever think about it again. It's just an identifier for a specific changelog entry after…

That's why I said “release cycle” – moving from numbers to “when it's ready” was definitely the key part. The trick was breaking the tyranny of significant numbers where people would hold off until they had enough features to be worthy of a major release.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by drill_sarge »

mar1 wrote: post #192

I'm using Archlinux and I have the H.264 GStreamer plugin installed (as well as base+bad+good+ugly codecs), but with Firefox 26 I still can't play a lot of YouTube videos when Flash is disabled, for example when I try to play Gangnam Style it tells me "The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback". Is that related to advertisements? Would it be possible to develop a plugin or a GreaseMonkey script that would…

https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011

No need for Flash anymore, works on every video

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