How can this tiny minor changes be worthy of a whole version number? Firefox is the software equivalent of the Zimbabwe dollar.
Firefox 26 is released
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#62Firefox 3: Yay! Firefox 3.6: Let's see what's new! Firefox 4: oooh pretty UI (at least that's what most thought) Firefox 26: sigh another one? I think only every 10 versions should be news. Since they moved to this useless release cycle (basically replacing bugfix releases with major releases), we should shift our news upvoting from major releases to major-major releases (i.e. treat the decimal sign as if it were 2.6…
The Firefox release is on a schedule. There's a new version every 6 weeks. Whatever features are ready to go are included. Sometimes they are big features and sometimes not. This one has some pretty major changes, that's why it's news.
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#63How can this tiny minor changes be worthy of a whole version number? Firefox is the software equivalent of the Zimbabwe dollar.
Because of Chrome. Until it came along version numbers meant something. Now a major version just means 6 weeks has passed since the last major version.
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#64How can this tiny minor changes be worthy of a whole version number? Firefox is the software equivalent of the Zimbabwe dollar.
Blame Google for that one - Chrome started the crazy-fast browser version numbering that's now in vogue. Chrome went from v24 to v31 this year.
I think it's partly security-through-psychology; if Joe User's installation quickly winds up three versions behind, he'll be more motivated to update or to allow an update.
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#65The Android version has received a facelift as well, and it looks nice. However, I suppose there still isn't a way to manually pin sites to the about:home page if they do not show up there already?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just download youtube videos[1]. It has many advantages over youtube.com. Hardware acceleration is one but also no stalling when skipping ahead, no disappearing videos that you planned to watch later, no need to sign in. Actually, youtube as a repository of material for download works much better than youtube as a streaming site. [1] http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
I do the same. The one disadvantage is you lose the ability to click on overlayed links to related videos that some people often put at the end of their videos.
I could argue that being a benefit -- the overlays and other annoyances during the video playback go away, too. So do the YouTube comments.
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#67> Improved page load times due to no longer decoding images that aren't visible (847223) ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847223 ) This is pretty cool
And it was even cooler when Opera did it several years ago.
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#69> Improved page load times due to no longer decoding images that aren't visible (847223) ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847223 ) This is pretty cool
And it was even cooler when Opera did it several years ago.
Maybe we can just agree that it's cool when users get great features?
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#70I wished they would improve the PDF viewer.