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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