Congrats to the team, it looks great so far. We (the public) don’t realize how much work goes into these releases. It’s hard waiting for release day, but it’s usually worth it.
> It’s hard waiting for release day, but it’s usually worth it.
Maybe I’m just getting old, but…
I find it’s getting easier and easier to wait for release day. In fact, with the number of extensions I use, I find it’s getting easier and easier to wait a couple of months *after* release day, for extension developers to get their stuff updated.
I remember when sometimes I *couldn’t* wait for release day even when releases were just about monthly. I downloaded new nightly builds on a fairly regular basis, and occasionally even deployed nightly builds on systems used by end users, because there were important features and bug fixes that I just couldn’t live without for two weeks. I’m thinking here particularly of the 0.9.x timeframe, when such basic features as tabbed browsing and print preview were young and the interfaces were in nearly constant flux. Those admittedly were exciting times, but for some strange reason I don’t want to go back to them. Maybe I’m just getting wrinkled and curmudgeonly and conservative as I approach the ripe old age of 20h (coming up in December), but these days I think I prefer the slower upgrade pace of Firefox, and indeed of sticking with the previous stable branch for a month or so after the new release, to give the extension developers plenty of time to catch up.
OTOH, I am *not* ready for the excruciatingly slow upgrade pace of certain other browsers, with their seemingly interminable periods of no improvements at all. It seems unnecessary to name names here, but multiple years between major releases strikes me as rather too long.
I guess it was a piece of cake.
Congrats to the team, it looks great so far. We (the public) don’t realize how much work goes into these releases. It’s hard waiting for release day, but it’s usually worth it.
> It’s hard waiting for release day, but it’s usually worth it.
Maybe I’m just getting old, but…
I find it’s getting easier and easier to wait for release day. In fact, with the number of extensions I use, I find it’s getting easier and easier to wait a couple of months *after* release day, for extension developers to get their stuff updated.
I remember when sometimes I *couldn’t* wait for release day even when releases were just about monthly. I downloaded new nightly builds on a fairly regular basis, and occasionally even deployed nightly builds on systems used by end users, because there were important features and bug fixes that I just couldn’t live without for two weeks. I’m thinking here particularly of the 0.9.x timeframe, when such basic features as tabbed browsing and print preview were young and the interfaces were in nearly constant flux. Those admittedly were exciting times, but for some strange reason I don’t want to go back to them. Maybe I’m just getting wrinkled and curmudgeonly and conservative as I approach the ripe old age of 20h (coming up in December), but these days I think I prefer the slower upgrade pace of Firefox, and indeed of sticking with the previous stable branch for a month or so after the new release, to give the extension developers plenty of time to catch up.
OTOH, I am *not* ready for the excruciatingly slow upgrade pace of certain other browsers, with their seemingly interminable periods of no improvements at all. It seems unnecessary to name names here, but multiple years between major releases strikes me as rather too long.