I, for one, welcome the fast release cycle. To me the version number isn't important, new features are.<p>Look at how long it previously took Mozilla to get major releases (and major features) out the door:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Release_history" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Release_hist...</a><p>The web evolves at a rapid pace. Now that browser vendors are implementing new features at a faster rate, developers can deliver better experiences to end users with a greater degree of certainty that each will have the same experience the developer intended.
He's not just complaining about the release schedule; he's complaining about the numerous and intrusive dialog boxes that pop up whenever Firefox's major version number is increased. Mozilla needs to remove every last one of those dialog boxes and make major version updates as silent as they are in Chrome.
I'm really getting sick of people complaining about Firefox's release schedule.<p>Look people, Firefox changed their version numbering system. <i>Why do the fuck do you care?</i> Does it really make that much a difference to you whether you're on version 5, or 1.5, or 0.1.5, or 0.5, or 1.0.5? <i>No!</i> So stop complaining. If you don't like the versioning schedule, switch to a browser that has a different schedule (Opera or Safari are the only two i can think of).