[aklug] Re: Firefox version

I haven't gotten this message, but the fact that Firefox has been
ramping up versions has been catching some news. Most notably, from the
business sector. They have a hard time keeping up, just look at how slow
they've been to get rid of IE6.
They were on a 6 week cycle in Oct. and talking about going to a 5 week
cycle.

Jim G

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 20:52 -0900, barsalou wrote:

> Recently I went to a website that said that my version of Firefox
> (3.5) was too old and that 4.0 would be sufficient.
>
> Imagine my surprise when I went to download the latest version of
> Firefox and found that it is version 8!
>
> It's official, I've been living under a rock! :)
>
> The interesting thing is that apt-cache only shows the latest version of 3.5.
>
> Anyone using version 8?
>
> What the heck has happened in 5 versions and what the heck is Ubuntu doing?
>
> Mike B.
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