Zigboom wrote:Funny but my version have just updated to Nightly 6.0a1 ! I see no theme changes except the about page that looks very cool (I had to tweak a bit).
You are no the Nightly 6.0 track, not the Aurora 5.0 track. I don't know if there are theme differences between the two. You can get on the Aurora track by downloading it from here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... la-aurora/
Thanks, I'll stay on the Nightly path, it's the only one with native Windows x64 support... Anyway I find it strange, why to develop 5.0 & 6.0 at the same time?
Zigboom wrote:Thanks, I'll stay on the Nightly path, it's the only one with native Windows x64 support... Anyway I find it strange, why to develop 5.0 & 6.0 at the same time?
They always do this. It used to be called trunk and branch. The trunk is where all of the major development happens. Eventually it get splits off as a branch and the trunk continues. For awhile now Mozilla has maintained *two* active branches for security updates while developing future stuff on the trunk... which means technically there has been three active nightly builds (not including experimental stuff). In the new scheme the branches will come more often and only one will be maintained and will go EOL as soon as the next one becomes available. When a version hits "Aurora" that means it is feature-frozen and the remaining development time is just about clean-up and stability. So all of the *feature* development happens on the "Nightly" trunk. Currently Mozilla has 2 active release versions and 2 development versions, but after 5.0 comes out it should all be streamlined.
Thanks for the info Patrick!, I see, mostly change in numbering & terminology. Let's see what the real changes will be ... I'm always happy for the read x64 support, Firefox is great on the features but could use some more speed & the 64 bit support helps. I just wish the lazy guys in Adobe will wake-up & update their Flash Square 64bit compatible beta version from 1010 ... (at least it works somehow luckily).
I read that FF5 is a more stable Beta that should let more people participate in evaluation (similar to the former Beta) and FF6 is the "Bleeding Edge" as was Minefield before.
patrickjdempsey wrote:I think Firefox 5 is going to just be a performance update so hopefully everyone will benefit!
Do you have any further reading on that? The only things I can find are mostly TBDs and nonsense tech "journalism " in the news.
I don't know that there is any "reading" persay, it's just that the only things that landed before the 5.0 Aurora branch split where performance-related. None of the *visible* planned features landed. Remember, "5.0 development" began as soon as the 4.0 RC split off of the trunk so there's actually been plenty of time for tweaks and fixes that didn't land in 4.0 to be included. Hopefully the new development model will make it possible for new features to mature without the developers having to be stressed about meeting specific deadlines. Let's hope it works out like that. Let's also hope that the UX folks don't go hog-wild and decide to change the interface every 2 months.
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