General Discussion

[DjLukeW]

7.0b is available - http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-7.0b5&os=win&lang=en-GB

Compared to 6.0.2 it feels even quicker. I had a small issue with slowdown, but it seems to be non existant in this version.

Also had a play with Nightly 9.0a and that was quicker again. Just lack of support for the addons I use. No biggy

[KillerBread]

Why are they calling it 6.0 and 7.0 so fast I remembered it took them years fir 3.6 to go to 4.0

[James91]

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KillerBread wrote:
Why are they calling it 6.0 and 7.0 so fast I remembered it took them years fir 3.6 to go to 4.0

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Speeding up their release cycle, new version every 6 weeks with new features instead of taking ages over just one release. New features come faster.

[Renegade1985]

It's annoying me xD

Add a new .1 to it I say

[fenian]

Yeah, dont do a full bump unless you have a major overhaul.

features or bug fixes are only supposed to get .1, and 0.1 bumps.

I wouldnt be surprised if the stick on 7 until win8 comes out and then launch a firefox 8.

[Domino2097]

They are doing it to catch up to google why they need to catch up to google in version number I have no idea why but Chrome is currently on version 13 and that came out 4 years after Firefox.

[ArsenalMark]

Aurora (8.02b) is really good imo, it's extremely quick compared to the current Firefox release and doesn't have the instabilities of Nightly.

[James91]

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fenian wrote:

Yeah, dont do a full bump unless you have a major overhaul.

features or bug fixes are only supposed to get .1, and 0.1 bumps.

I wouldnt be surprised if the stick on 7 until win8 comes out and then launch a firefox 8.

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8 will be out well before the end of the year, by the time Windows 8 lands we'll probably be on Firefox 12/13.

[Domino2097]

Firefox 9 is schelduled for December they might as well just get rid of the numbers and name them after the month.

[James91]

Full version out now

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-7.0&os=win&lang=en-US