Monday, January 30, 2012

What is up with Firefox


It is a cheap shot I know, but what the hell is up with FireFox versioning?


I don't mind being behind the leading edge but change the version number is seems almost every few months leaves me feeling like I am ancient running my Firefox 4 browser.


Update: Since writing this email tonight I received another email ...




The madness continues, but since one of my employers mandates use of Firefox as the corporate browser, well, I have to play along


If I had to generalise however I would say that 



  • Firefox is perhaps the ultimate backup browser
  • I'd recommend Google Chrome Canary as your primary browser
  • Or regular Google Chrome  (i.e. non beta) if you don't want to be bleeding edge
  • And finally Chrome Portable,  as the browser you can run from your USB key on your intentionally crippled non Administrator access corporate PC.
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