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Firefox 6 on Tiger PowerPC :)

phreakout

Well-known member
What? Firefox 6 is already out? They just released ver. 5.x less than a month ago. Is it just me or am I missing something?

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

 

Gorgonops

Moderator
Staff member
Years ago Slackware Linux jumped straight from version 4.0 to 7.0 as a sarcastic response to RedHat's version number creep. Of course, that didn't stop Redhat from burning through 7 to 9 in nothing flat...

 

ClassicHasClass

Well-known member
I am generally a big Mozilla cheerleader, but I think they blew it big time with rapid release. However, they blew it more by being nasty to people who made reasonable complaints afterwards. There's quite a bit of MoCo internal squabbling over it and some has bubbled up publicly.

 

Cory5412

Daring Pioneer of the Future
Staff member
I'll have to try this out on the G5s at the office. Thank you for this effort. It has been one of the things preventing me from replacing those G5s with Dell 280s.

Spank you Google Chrome. :p Darn version number creep...
Google Chrome never makes a big deal about advertising their version number. Chrome is at 13 now, and if you look, there's a lot of differences between, say, chrome 3 (if you can find and isolate that executable) and Chrome 12 or 13. Google's policy of "iterate quickly and frequently" is working in their favor pretty significantly here, if I do say so myself, and it's better to think of Chrome as a piece of software that doesn't have a version number, but just keeps improving. It's kind of like a web site in that way.

Firefox, on the other hand, hasn't really done much that I can see between 4.0 and 6.0. 6.0 should probably be called something like 4.2 or even 4.0.something. This is doubly true if the Mozilla folks are having public disagreements about the version numbering.

 

Christopher

Well-known member
Didn't Google pull their search bar out of Firefox recently? If they did, it'll be hard for me to get the new version. I've tried other search engines and none of them "felt" like I was getting the searches I wanted. Not even Dogpile...

 

ClassicHasClass

Well-known member
Final is being uploaded to Google Code ( http://tenfourfox.googlecode.com/ ) as we speak (as well as a blog post to the development blog, http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/ ).

Because Time Worthless still has its corporate thumb up its rear end, I haven't been able to do much testing of it other than what I could surreptitiously do in the back corner of the local Starbucks on my iBook G4. I'd appreciate people banging on it. If there is a serious problem, I did do a security review of Fx5 so we can run off an interim TenFourFox 5.0.2 if there are serious showstoppers in 6. However, the iBook has been doing fine on 6b1, so I expect no issues with this one.

 
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