Firefox 6: Four Reasons Not to Upgrade

[win7holic]

Firefox 6 is here. So far, I haven't received any notification pushing the latest Mozilla browser, but my wife has, so I assume it is just a matter of time. When my Mozilla overlords come knocking, though, I'm not sure I want to get on the Firefox 6 train.
The dust has barely settled on the last "major upgrade"--but that is the product roadmap strategy Mozilla is sticking to. With that in mind, here are four reasons I would just as soon not download and install Firefox 6.

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[jamescv7]

In my opinion, even there isn't a major feature, the pros here bugs and vulnerabilities were fixed which is the main important.

 

[Hungry Man]

Here's one reason to upgrade:
4 and 5 aren't supported....


Or you can just move to Chrome haha =p

 

[Ink]

People need to stop complaining. Haha. :lol:

+1 to Hungry Man's reply, and to show FF4 & FF5 are not supported:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Release_history

 

[MrXidus]

Firefox 6? I'm running Firefox Nightly 9.0a1 and its doing great for me. I also use Chrome Dev and Canary and that does me great aswell.
I'm lucky not to be experiencing crashes or bugs or anything unstable happening.

 

[bogdan]

It is just a simple upgrade that fixes some bugs in previous version. The version number itself is quite meaningless. It could be FF 6.1, you would still need to upgrade. The author seems to complain about the fact that Mozilla updates their browser too often, in my opinion this is a good thing, it means they are fixing bugs.

Many of the addons I use are still compatible and for the rest of them it is probably just a simple matter of them being marked as compatible with ff 6.x only. There might be indeed a small issue here - plugin authors might need some time to accommodate with the new version numbering system, but the author tries a bit too hard to make it seem like a big deal.

Anyway, I think that this is just another article about the new way Mozilla numbers their FF versions, but some people might actually take the title literally and decide not to upgrade to the new version. Here is a list of bugs that the new version fixes. A long list... of reasons why you should upgrade to FF 6. And if you decide to use Chrome instead, its all great... just don't go back to IE

 

[Ramblin]

I totally agreed with ALL the reply's prior to mine.

Bo

 

[win7holic]

updated my FF to v6 now.