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DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updatesDiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updatesPosted Jul 7, 2012 3:01 UTC (Sat) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)In reply to: DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates by intgr Parent article: DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates
> Am I the only one who remembers what the *old* Firefox release process was like? You'd wait 2 years for the next version, which was then guaranteed to break *all* of your extensions. And it took at least a month for the extension writers to catch up. The new release would always come with show-stopper bugs, crashes, etc. and would stabilize in a few months.
That is nothing. I remember an even older Firefox, back from before it was called Firefox. You had to run one single window at a time, else it would crash too often. Even with a single window, it crashed often. Tabs? There were no tabs back then. I do not think we even had extensions. The versions were also a single number, only it had a "M" in front, and were also released with a rapid schedule.
*insert Four Yorkshiremen sketch here*
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DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates Posted Jul 7, 2012 12:17 UTC (Sat) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]
> I remember an even older Firefox, back from before it was called Firefox.
And it was slow as hell too. And instead of optimizing it, they just waited for processor speeds to catch up, then renamed to Firefox. :)
DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates Posted Jul 7, 2012 13:41 UTC (Sat) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]
That brings me back. Netscape Communicator stand-alone on Red Hat Linux 5.0 for me. This was 1998. Fonts were... interesting. It would crash often, and the crash behaviour of Communicator (and many other apps) was simply to disappear.
The Linux desktop has greatly improved. I'm glad we've evolved to the point where the complaints can seem trivial compared to the olden days.
We really used to hate NN updates back then Posted Jul 7, 2012 21:36 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Luxury. I remember NN (as we called it back then, Netscape Navigator) 3.x on Mac, starting with 3.0 which displayed all pages blank, through with 3.02 which crashed twice per page visited; and up to the horrible Communicator suite which came with a half-baked email/news client, an atrocious chat thing and an even worse page editor (which I am sure made many people reconsider their future lives as web designers and go back to daddy's butcher shop. With gratitude.) There were other, less pleasant products also integrated in the suite.That was right before Netscape entered a long, long tunnel of a rewrite which took them right below the AOL/Time Warner merger and through to being spun off as a non-profit for the first Firefox releases. (I hear there were some releases down there, but probably nobody saw them.) The best result of that long winter was probably Spolsky's article about major rewrites, so imagine that.
We really used to hate NN updates back then Posted Jul 8, 2012 1:15 UTC (Sun) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
The days when Internet Explorer really was the best browser available for free.
We really used to hate NN updates back then Posted Jul 26, 2012 18:06 UTC (Thu) by philomath (guest, #84172) [Link]
It never really was.
DiCarlo: Everybody hates Firefox updates Posted Jul 16, 2012 18:26 UTC (Mon) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link] Tabs? There were no tabs back then. I do not think we even had extensions. I remember that, and I remember installing the tabs extension shortly after it came out! The versions were also a single number, only it had a "M" in front, and were also released with a rapid schedule. That was earlier, when there was just 'Mozilla' with a GUI even busier than Netscape Communicator. That turned into Seamonkey, not Firefox.
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