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Firefox 100

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Version numbers are officially out of control.

It's a pretty ridiculous scheme done just to copy Chrome, but it also doesn't do much harm in practice. But browser version numbers no longer really have any useful or memorable meaning.

It wasn't done to copy Chrome, but you keep telling yourself that.

Just the fact that both Firefox and Chrome are version 100 as we speak is pretty suspect by itself, not that it really matters why they did it

So trying to shift development processes more toward continuous delivery (within reason, given desktop software) is meaningless, then? Come on.

Sure, do that. But by chance they are both on 100?

They each release on a regular schedule. I don’t think that they have the same schedule. You can see each of them incrementing with each release. They have been doing this for several years now. It really is just chance they they are at 100 in roughly the same time.

> but it also doesn't do much harm in practice

I digress on that.

I have no fucking[0] idea if Firefox 99 is just a minor upgrade over Firefox 98 or it would completely change the UI and my UX with it. With X.YY to X+1.00 I could, at least, be warned what something crucial could change. Nowadays I'm the hostage of "We think you need to do things THAT way" of whatever fever at Mozilla corp at the moment.[1]

[0] I mean it.

[1] There was something about themes or colours or whatever in the last ten updates. Did you used it more for than a day?

(Totally agree!)

You mean "disagree" here though - "digress" means that you step away from the topic for a moment.

> step away from the topic for a moment

From the topic of the article in this case.

Am I mad or is the Firefox “what’s new page” the same every version? The CSS Grid tool has been in there for years now.

Obligatory ”thank you" to Mozilla for their persistence.

There is no alternative to having Firefox. I'm using it as my primary browser and so should everybody else.

> There is no alternative to having Firefox. I'm using it as my primary browser and so should everybody else.

Nope. Mozilla has proven to not be so privacy-friendly after all or even serious about it these days.

At this point, one might as well just save yourself the pain and use Brave instead.

Because Brave's crypto ad pyramid scheme is better?

There's a button in the settings to disable it if you don't like it. I've never used it, so far it's the best browser I've used.

Or because Google deciding the direction of browser development is better.

Isnt brave just chrome (blink) with different clothes and tons of cryposcam ads

Good that you are liking firefox. But i feel mozilla does not have same principles now a days. Or maybe their marketshare has made them desperate.

I exclusively use Edge on mobile and Mac, it is great, support adblock on mobile and better privacy than chrome.

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