dragoran wrote:
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)
Things will break either way. Since that's the case, it should be a
goal to break things as little as possible (update once to 3.0 instead
of breaking things at 2.0 and again at 3.0) and to do so for a
compelling reason. XULrunner is that compelling reason, and is what
Firefox 3.0 gives us. It is the single most important thing for the
Linux gecko stack coming up. Having to only update a single package to
get security fixes as opposed to multiple (can we say dependency hell?)
is a Good Thing(tm) and is worth taking for everyone involved.
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