All the suddenly I'm running Firefox 6 alpha?!?!
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| Author | Content |
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| hkwint Apr 14, 2011 5:19 PM EDT |
A while ago, FF's new 'updating' mechanism bumped me all the way from 4.0bpre8 via 4.0bpre13 (last one before 4.0 came out) to 4.2apre1. But now, all the suddenly I'm running FF 6.0 Alpha! It's the 'Nightly Aurora' line it seems. In fact nothing fancy, just a name; http://www.tomsguide.com/us/firefox-google-chrome-apple-safa... but still... Some months ago I was running 3.6.13. Great way to boast, FF4 is just out and I'm running 6! This is what the 'about' screen looks like (of course in WindowMaker):  |
| jdixon Apr 14, 2011 7:30 PM EDT |
Skipped right over 5, huh? Wonderful. Firefox 4 crashed so frequently on my wife's XP machine that she downgraded back to Firefox 3.6. It looks more and more like the Firefox developers want Chrome to win out. |
| hkwint Apr 15, 2011 8:12 PM EDT |
I had that episode as well JD. But as soon as it came, it also went after upgrading! |
| TxtEdMacs Apr 16, 2011 7:10 AM EDT |
For an explanation of the version types, check this out: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/04/ride-the-fir... However, nightlyes are bleeding edge. You could back off to the intermediate stage where they are supposed to have some stability, i.e. Aurora. Long ago when I did s/not/some/ testing, when I found a nightly that was stable I stayed with it over the beta. [edit How could I have missed the "not" when I was thinking "some"?] |
| hkwint Apr 16, 2011 8:33 AM EDT |
Interesting, they say 'nightly is unsuitable for day-to-day use, but it has been my day-to-day browser for more than two months now. |
| TxtEdMacs Apr 16, 2011 9:10 AM EDT |
Back when I was testing a prelease version of Firefox, I too found a nightly more stable. However, the next day's version could be a complete disaster. Edit, by the way the old name of the Nightly version was minefield where the latter was apropos naming. |
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