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Thunderbird too

Thunderbird too

Posted Nov 9, 2011 8:27 UTC (Wed) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)
In reply to: Thunderbird too by rahvin
Parent article: Firefox 8 released

Because the devs decided they couldn't be bothered with backwards compatibility between versions any more. They want to be free to break source compatibility, binary compatibility and add-on compatibility every six weeks (not just for Firefox, but also for the underlying libs they control, including libxul/xulrunner), hence a new major version number each time.


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