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Samuel Sidler  
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 More options Mar 7 2009, 10:46 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Samuel Sidler <s...@mozilla.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:46:04 -0800
Local: Sat, Mar 7 2009 10:46 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1 becoming Firefox 3.5
On Mar 7, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote:

> And I would see Gecko and Firefox versions finally synching as a good
> thing. I have expressed from the beginning my support for the fact
> that [Gecko 1.9].x == [Firefox 3].x. Why would effort be made to
> specifically go back away from that?

Gecko numbers have never really been "in sync" with major Firefox  
versions (maintenance releases are clearly different here). We have  
major Gecko versions and major Firefox versions.

e.g.:

  * Firefox 1 == Gecko 1.7
  * Firefox 1.5 == Gecko 1.8.0
  * Firefox 2 == Gecko 1.8.1
  * Firefox 3 == Gecko 1.9.0
  * Firefox 3.5 == Gecko 1.9.1

There's nothing wrong or inconsistent about this. Gecko version  
numbers aren't really "user-facing" either, so they don't really need  
to be in sync with Firefox version numbers.

Regardless, Gecko releases are not the same as Firefox releases. Let's  
not confuse the two in this discussion.

-Sam


 
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