Firefox 2.0 parallel install

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Tue Oct 24 18:59:33 UTC 2006


Christopher Aillon wrote:
> - Firefox 2.0 only adds a few minor "nice-to-have" features that you 
> can already get with extensions to 1.5.  This really should be called 
> Firefox 1.5.1 instead of 2.0 (the internal gecko number version this 
> minor change), but it's called 2.0 for marketing purposes.  They feel 
> that they will get more people downloading it with a major version 
> bump as opposed to a 1.5.1 release.  Looks like the marketing hype is 
> working.  Let me state it plainly for everyone: There is nothing 
> extremely compelling about Firefox 2.0.  Firefox 3.0 on the other hand 
> will be very compelling for both features, linux support, and 
> embedding support.  I am seriously considering pushing 3.0 into FC6 
> and even FC5, and have been making noises for a while about that being 
> the next upgrade.

you don't want to push 2.0 into a stable release because its a minor 
change but 3.0 even its a much bigger change??
I always heard "this is a big update it will break things" -> next 
release; but never heard the opposite (update is minor -> next release)




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