Firefox 4, A Day Later

Yesterday we noted that Firefox 4 is out in the wild. Since then, the popular browser has been downloaded 6 million times, double the numbers reported for MSIE9. Now the development team is talking about a new development process and what to expect for FF 5 and 6. And unsurprisingly, naysayers proclaim that IE will survive, while Firefox will die.

App ecosystem!

[sakdoctor]

The "IE will survive/firefox will die" article:
Firefox will die because it ONLY has extensions. It doesn't have an app ecosystem, and is therefore not buzzword compliant.

Erm, yeah.

Re:Jesus Flipping Christ...

[SuperKendall]

We should blow his mind and claim the true Firefox version number is divided by ten for display so it doesn't harm monitors.

You just wait

[SethThresher]

To be honest, I'm not really sure what any of this article said, because I was too busy being mesmerized by the blinky lights on the Firefox download stats page [mozilla.org].

Re:Jesus Flipping Christ...

[balbus000]

According to their roadmap [mozilla.org], Firefox will be up to version 7 by the end of 2011.

They say that they want to "ship our new technology to users in smaller bundles, more frequently" but personally, I just think they want more cake [slashdot.org].

What a waste

[DragonHawk]

This guy is using precious oxygen that clearly could be going to a more deserving cause. Like helping rust bridges, or something.

Re:Jesus Flipping Christ...

[pclminion]

Well, everyone knows that version numbers are a measurement of how many featuritons are included in the product. A featuriton is a fundamental subatomic particle which represents the basic unit of innovation. For every version number, an additional 3.82e26 featuritons is included in the product. So really, the version number is just measuring the total featuriton level and comparing version numbers is a completely valid way to compare the development of two products.

Let's not bother getting into the quantum developodynamics of it, just take my word for it.