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Philip Chee  
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 More options Mar 7 2009, 3:06 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Philip Chee <philip.c...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:06:39 +0800
Local: Sat, Mar 7 2009 3:06 am
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1 becoming Firefox 3.5
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:40:55 -0800, Shawn Wilsher wrote:
> On 3/6/09 11:59 AM, John J Barton wrote:
>> This part I don't get: why wouldn't users be delighted with a bulging
>> new 3.1?

I agree with John. All this version inflation just makes Mozilla look
like one of those proprietary companies making commercial software,
which it isn't.

> The same kind of reasons why some users don't like the new location bar
> in Firefox 3.0.  Big changes are scary to users.  Small version bumps
> imply that there aren't many changes, whereas bigger ones imply that
> there will be more.  It's psychological.

So how many of those changes are user facing vs how many are developer
(web and extension) facing?

Speaking as an extension developer, while bumping the maxVersion for one
extension is no big deal, we have been telling our end users that our
extensions are now 3.1 compatible and then now to tell them you need yet
another version for the upcoming 3.5 is slightly annoying. Multiply that
by at least 10,000 (One of my extensions has an ID of exactly 10000 on AMO).

Phil

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