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____/ Homer on Thursday 18 Aug 2011 09:40 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>> Maybe Mozilla can slow down *new* releases and maintain older ones for
>> longer.
>
> It's even simpler than that. They could continue releasing at exactly
> the same pace they are now, incorporating exactly the same feature and
> bug patches, but only bump minor version numbers ... just like they used
> to, and reserve major version bumps for /actual/ new versions of Firefox
> when warranted, once in a blue moon.
>
> That'd keep corporate users, plugin writers and everyone else happy.
> Well, everyone except Mozilla, apparently.
Actually, in minor releases all they gave was buxfixes. Only the big new releases
contained real fundamental changes.
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~~ Best of wishes
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