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Firefox 6.0 alpha available

23 points| kia | 15 years ago |nightly.mozilla.org | reply

7 comments

[+] lion0|15 years ago|reply

what happened to 5.0? Are they doing 6.0 and 5.0 in parallel?

[+] flatulent1|15 years ago|reply

It must be a parallel project.

When 4.0 was released to the public, the next update provided 40 b13 nightly users was a 4.2 alpha. (some plug-ins break)

[+] jasonlotito|15 years ago|reply

They are moving to a Google Chrome like development schedule. So yes, basically, 4.0 is stable, 5.0 would be beta, and 6.0 would be alpha. Soon, 5.0 will be stable, 6.0 would be beta, and 7.0 would be alpha.

[+] rob08|15 years ago|reply

They're really speeding up their release schedule. Not really related to the topic, but I'm curious why is the Mac build twice the size of the Windows one?

[+] navs|15 years ago|reply

I wonder if they still package both PPC and Intel binaries together. This is usually the reason why OS X apps seem to be larger than their Windows counterparts.

[+] farlington|15 years ago|reply

I think the Mac version is a 32/64 bit universal binary. That might be an explanation, anyway.