670891 - Change the version number, it is not awesome

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sandro Della Giustina]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110711 Firefox/8.0a1
Build ID: 20110711030829

Steps to reproduce:

Help -> About Mozilla Firefox


Actual results:

, I dislike  to use Firefox 8, I have used for years versions < 4, and with satisfaction. 
It is not awesome and  historically   meaningless.


Expected results:

If you would release a major version any 6 weeks, at least use the version number adopted  by Seamonkey:
Firefox 5 -> Firefox 4.1
Firefox 6 -> Firefox 4.2
Firefox 7 > Firefox 4.3
Firefox 8 -> Firefox 4.4

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Though many people are likely to have strong feelings on this topic (I know I do), this is probably not the place to discuss it. For more information, see

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap
and 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Talk:Firefox/Roadmap

or join a discussion in one of the forums

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap

A bug is unlikely to aid your cause after there has been much discussion and the decision on it elsewhere.

Suggesting to close bug as WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Another enlightening reference for interested parties:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2011/07/firefox_version_numbers_cognitive_disson.html

Suggesting to close as WONTFIX or INVALID.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Sorry but such discussions doesn't belong into bugzilla. Use the newsgroups instead, thanks