therube wrote:You think?
I'm sure Mozilla has put a lot more thought into it than you or I would care to, and they may just be as smart as us too. We'll see.
I hope it works out that way, but I would think it would be a PITA for all involved - the end user too.
It may work out easier for most end users. The changes released every six weeks will usually be small enough that many users won't even notice them (or care much about them if the do notice), unlike the traditional fiasco that has take place in the Firefox support forums every time there has been a major release in the past. If the user is using any extensions -- the majority of users don't -- most if not all of their extensions will already be compatible before Firefox is updated. If I recall correctly, Firefox will eventually be using silent, automatic updates by default, which will relieve the ordinary user from having to deal with a popup for each update.
In the past if FF3.6 was out & FF4 was in testing, I might dabble to see...
Me too, but most of my extensions weren't compatible with the betas, so I didn't do any serious browsing or testing with the betas.
But now, with FF4 "just" out & already FF5 & FF6 people are running, I think, what the heck.
Fx 5.0a2 is the current Fx 5.0 development and testing branch. I've looked at it, but that's all. I don't see much difference. Fx 5.0 will be merged into the Beta channel for QA on May 17 and be released to beta testers once it passes QA.
Since most if not all of my Fx 4.0 extensions will still work in Fx 5.0 beta, I'll probably switch over to using it as my main browser.
I've kind of stopped even looking at posts that appear to be FF "6" related as I haven't a clue as to what they (the browser) might be
Fx 6.0a1 is just the nightly trunk builds, formerly called Minefield. Nothing to see here. Move along.