Firefox and the version numbers chaos [update]

Update below: the end of the version number is still not decided.

You must love Google not sure that the Web and software company with its chrome browser with old traditions breaks and turns out a new version every few weeks. We should be up to date with version 13, but I've since long ago lost the overview. Because I use it (still) not as the default browser, this is relatively no matter me fortunately. After all: Google says what number it is. What I find however ridiculous is the number chaos that evokes more recently Mozilla with Firefox.

After one has rigged to version 4 for many years, it has decided that it should go in the future faster: even small version jumps have a full version number. Number 5 was released several weeks after the 4 without important new features and version 6 to appear today (!) officially. About it you because like me, you have only so at the same time learn that? I just noticed that the version 4.0 is installed on my work computer. Now Mozilla has come up with some moderately ingenious: the version number to the end user no longer seen be. That this will end in chaos and it this ansägt the own branch on which it sits, it has not considered apparently this.

"Firefox is up to date" rather than "Version 5.1″"

Since the release of a browser is accompanied by Techjournalisten and bloggers in a way in which numbers are an important sign. There are stable and very interesting beta releases, release Candidats, builds or just notes and screenshots, of which it is worth to write before the final release. If you are interested in software, which wants to know just what is played and what will the future bring. And then there are course messages like that of the weekend, when Golem.de reported the finished Firefox 6 is already on the servers of Mozilla to find. Heise adds the same message with a view to the version 8.

In the future should be for the user but not more can be seen, what version number he just used. Displays the version no longer in the "About Firefox" page in the browser menu and also not on the download page. Instead Mozilla spokesperson Asa Dotzler to appear according to a message, which is about: "Firefox has 20 minutes for the last time ago for updates for." "To use the latest version."

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