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Comment by gedrap | Hacker News Reader

While it's quite off topic, what's with FF version numbers? I mean just a few years back it was FF 3, 4, 5, and while I am not using it daily, I don't think it's a major change every time.

I guess my kids are going to use Firefox 142...

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As scott_karana mentioned, Firefox has been doing "rapid release" since 2011. https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease There are 3 channels: Aurora (alpha), Beta, and Release. Every 6 weeks, stable features are pushed into the next channel. So there is a new release every 6 weeks, and if you want to live in the future, you can use the Beta or Aurora channel. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/

Edit: do you really want your grandkids to be stuck with version 5? :)

And don't forget about nightly: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

And the news-feed: http://firefoxnightly.tumblr.com/

Mozilla adopted a rapid release cycle, similar to what Google does with Chrome. Everyone is always automatically updated and version numbers are less significant.

Chrome does the same an no one ever complains about it.

Holy crap! I so need the power of the down-vote right now...

Update - Really? I am being down-voted and not gedrap?

His comment added very little to the conversation.

Yours added nothing.

Please try to avoid comments like this in the future.

Your opinion...

My opinion is his comment was a waste of time and mine was funny.

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