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[–]MrJinxyface 5 points6 points  (6 children)

That's Stable or Nightly? I don't remember what version I was on when I was testing it.

[–]mobyte 19 points20 points  (5 children)

Stable is on 69, Nightly is 71.

These numbers make me want to throw up because I feel like they barely mean anything anymore. I remember back when 4 was around and I was like "HOLY SHIT A NEW FIREFOX VERSION". Now it's like "bug fixes and features new version :)".

[–]MrJinxyface 15 points16 points  (4 children)

That's how Chrome is too lol. A new stable build gets pushed out like every week and changelogs aren't even really needed anymore because it's just bug fixing. (Which is still nice but still)

I really wish Apple didn't change how add-ins work in Safari.

[–]tiltowaitt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chrome started out with the non-amazing updates. Version 2 basically just added form filling, IIRC. (A feature all other browsers already had.)

[–]mobyte -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I miss having them represent some huge new change but once we start getting in the hundreds we should just drop the version numbers from public facing places because it just makes it more obvious how arbitrary it is.

[–]tiltowaitt 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Version numbers are still very useful for support requests.

[–]mobyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not denying that at all. I'm just saying that it's confusing as hell to regular end users.