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The next version was originally going to be called 3.7, but it was later renamed to Firefox 4.

Starting with beta 1, there will be no more references to Firefox 3.7. As we speak, all version strings are being updated to refer to 4.0 instead.

They have clear roadmaps for each major version number. I'm not so sure I'd consider it dumb.

It's fine as long as you keep consistent naming. Calling 3.7 version 4 is dumb, if you're going to call it 4 then bump up the version number, if you're not going to bump up the version number until later then stop calling it 4.

They're calling it 4. This isn't the official beta. The 3.7 are just old executables lingering in the FTP folder.

firefox-4.0b2pre.en-US: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...