frequency and tone of "Please update firefox 6.0" nag seem suspicious

I do not remember nagging Firefox with such insistence that the only safe version was a major version number higher than the new facility of the default download of the previous day (5.0.1 August 15).

What was even more disconcerting was that I knew from the computer to my wife that the horse 6.0 with the same text had begun well before 6.0 became the last default download of Firefox from mozilla.com (because when I saw this message on his Mac one, too many times I checked my own machine and found that I was still running 4 point something how I went to mozilla.org and I landed) on the standard download page and issued 5.0.1).

So, what gives? One explanation could restore confidence. Thank you! We do not know how to be more paranoid.

Firefox is a new program of the "quick release" with new versions spilled more frequently, about every 6 weeks.

  • There will be little or no, minor versions (i.e., 6.1).
  • There will be no temporary releases unless urgent problems in a version, as it was with Firefox 5.0.1 to manage releases of the latest OSX (Lion)
    • -NOTE: for all os except OSX, Firefox 5.0 and 5.0.1 were the same.
  • There was also a version of security for all Firefox Firefox 4.0.1 4.0 operating systems.

The goal of a quick release can be summarized by this statement: ""the goal of the process is to provide regular improvements to users without affecting longer term work."" (meaning long term and work toward goals of Mozilla).

With each new version, the previous version is no longer supported or updated, so it is important to keep up-to-date, as any security or stability improvements will not increase back to the earlier version.

Update notifications are made once a day when a new version is available.

Changes in Firefox 6:

Always on tap for 2011, Firefox 7 (27/09/2011), Firefox 8 (date not defined, but maybe at the beginning to mid November) and possibly Firefox 9 (possibly before the end of the year).

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