Back when Mozilla released Firefox 4, it also announced the tentative launch dates for subsequent versions. And while it has often pushed back those dates, Firefox 6, Mozilla’s next version of its web browser, is reportedly on schedule and will be launched en masse on Tuesday.
Our readers will remember that the current version of Firefox, Firefox 5, was released just some time back. Mozilla has stated that 94 per cent of the add-ons will work perfectly fine with the new version. They have also mentioned the release dates for version 7 (September 27) and version 8 (November 11).
While Mozilla has stated that version 5 onwards, all version upgrades up to 7 will only be incremental updates despite the change in the version number, I had wondered why Mozilla were following this policy of naming these releases as major version numbers when this is not justified given that the changes are minimal (Duh! Competition from Google Chrome. But still). Surprisingly, one reader did not share my view and aired his opinion rather vociferously, as you can see in the comments section of the concerned post.
I am afraid that with this post too, I am going to have to espouse my earlier opinion. I also think that with this (faulty and misleading) way of naming their browser versions simply in order to try and keep up with Google Chrome, Mozilla is actually hurting its own image in the eyes of the web community. And to end this post, I will once again quote an anonymous netizen’s comment, simply because it rings so true: “Did this really need to be version 5? Do they feel inadequate next to Chrome’s 14 versions? Someone needs to tell the Firefox guys it’s more about girth than length.”!
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