On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Jayton Garnett <jayton.garn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> FF4 only came out a few months ago and they're retiring it from security > support? That's Lame. Really Lame. > Oh well, it's a good thing it doesn't effect me because I only use Chrome. > Versioning doesn't matter because 99% of the users are up to date within a > few days of a new update / version being released. So it's just Chrome to > me, not Chrome 12, 13 or 14, it just doesn't matter. > > The goal for Firefox devs appears to be the same: everyone is auto-updated in the background so that everyone is always running the latest version of Firefox (unless they disable that option in the settings). Just like Chrome. In a few years, version numbers for Firefox and Chrome will be equally as useless. Which is going to make it absolute *hell* for OSes that compile their own binaries (like the BSDs and most Linux distros) as they won't/can't support the auto-update feature. Which means we're going to have users with all kinds of different versions for Firefox/Chrome. Although, maybe this will force web developers to start checking for *features* and not just blindly checking version numbers in User-Agent strings. If that happens, then I'm all for this forced-upgrade nonsense. :) > Does anyone take FF's rapid release roadmap serious? I know they're packing > in lots of new features in, but surely there is a limit? > I think IE9's UI is better than FF's, but I still prefer Chrome's. > > Chrome, IE9, and FF4+ all basically have the same UI now: - 1 row for tabs with 1 icon for accessing "menus" - 1 row for toolbar icons and address bar - dynamically hidden "status bar" The only differences are that IE uses a tonne of extra space at the top of the window for the Aero nonsense, Chrome removes the title bar, and Firefox has a smaller title bar. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
