I never jumped on the rapid release system that mozilla adopted, and am still using the latest 3.6 version that they indicated they would maintain, so although i didn’t get the inevitable bugs… obviously i didn’t get the new features either… so instead of a poll, after the fact does anyone have any comments? To me it seems that they are trying to compete with the perception that chrome/chromium is way ahead simply by the version number. my 2 cents.
Most of the changes have been relatively small, so I haven’t found it to be a big problem.
The change from 17 to 18 altered the format of the cookies.sqlite data, and that briefly caused problems for me - but nothing too serious. And it only caused problems because I do some scripting on the cookies (delete cookies that I don’t want after every firefox restart).
It feels like to me many web pages become quickly unusable on older versions of browsers. Recent examples such as problems with mega recommending Chrome over Firefox. There are a lot of new html5/webgl related sites that push the boundaries of browser performance. I think the rapid release model is so that newer technologies can be put into actual use much more quickly.
I am not saying I agree with it. I am stuck in my ways and dislike any time I have to upgrade. (On my main computer at least 
)
As for Firefox users that do not like to upgrade might look into ESR: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/
On 2013-02-23 23:36, j xavier wrote:
> I never jumped on the rapid release system that mozilla adopted, and am
No, I do not like at all the numbering system they use.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Why don’t we switch to ESR? Every day multiple exploits are found and they definitely need to get patched.
I do see firefox-esr in the repos
Not at all.
I’m always using a Firefox Beta or Nightly. The Release version is installed for troubleshooting assistance only.
Current Nightly: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130224 Firefox/22.0
I don’t have a particular comment on what the mozilla folk are doing. But I’ll comment on opensuse.
I remember back to an earlier time, when opensuse was behind. I may have the version numbers wrong, but I think we were on firefox 2, and firefox 3 was already out. Mozilla was updating firefox 2 for security problems only.
My reaction was that opensuse was leaving us behind by failing to keep up with changes from mozilla. We had to go to the next opensuse release before we could see the new firefox.
My personal reaction is to be glad that opensuse is now keeping up. I suspect that there are quite a few other opensuse users who agree.
I explicitly disagree with that suggestion.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:36:01 GMT
j xavier <j_xavier@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> I never jumped on the rapid release system that mozilla adopted, and
> am still using the latest 3.6 version that they indicated they would
> maintain, so although i didn’t get the inevitable bugs… obviously i
> didn’t get the new features either… so instead of a poll, after the
> fact does anyone have any comments? To me it seems that they are
> trying to compete with the perception that chrome/chromium is way
> ahead simply by the version number. my 2 cents.
>
>
The first Netscape browser I used was 1.2N. If Netscape had followed
the same version-numbering system from that point on, I reckon we’d now
be on Netscape 140 or thereabouts. Chrome would have had a job keeping
up with that!
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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.3-RC1 (64-bit); KDE 4.10.00; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
> I never jumped on the rapid release system that mozilla adopted, and am
> still using the latest 3.6 version that they indicated they would
> maintain, so although i didn’t get the inevitable bugs… obviously i
> didn’t get the new features either… so instead of a poll, after the
> fact does anyone have any comments? To me it seems that they are trying
> to compete with the perception that chrome/chromium is way ahead simply
> by the version number. my 2 cents.
I think I can’t be bothered to worry about version numbers.
Does it do what I want when I want?
If answer = ‘yes’
then response = ‘great’;
else
pissandmoan = ‘yes’;
end if