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[Antony]

Under Mozilla's rushing release schedule, Mozilla has rushed out another version with another number jump, Firefox 11. Firefox 11 includes some new features and security improvements.

Firefox 11 release notes is available at www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/11.0/releasenotes.

Firefox 11 can be downloaded from www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html.

• Firefox can now migrate your bookmarks, history, and cookies from Google Chrome
• With Sync enabled, add-ons can now be synchronized across your computers
• The CSS text-size-adjust property is now supported
• Redesigned media controls for HTML5 video
• The outerHTML property is now supported on HTML elements
• View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser (see bug 482921)
• The Style Editor for CSS editing is now available to web developers
• Web developers can now visualize a web page in 3D using the Page Inspector 3D View
• SPDY protocol support for faster page loads is now testable
• XMLHttpRequest now supports HTML parsing
• Files can now be stored in IndexedDB (see bug 661877)
• Websockets has now been unprefixed
• Various security fixes
• Firefox notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later (691662)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 AlexaToolbar/alxf-2.14 Firefox/3.6.28

[Fulvio]

I wonder if we can combine all the posts. Not surprisingly, along with Firefox and Thunderbird 11, there is a Seamonkey 2.8. The update was very simple, using Help| Check for Updates, downloading the small incremental. That process has not worked for the newer Firefox and Thunderbird, requiring the download of the full installer. I will try.
I did, and Firefox updated to v.11, by downloading the partial file. But, Thunderbird did download the file, went through the motions, and then I got a notice that the update could not applied. The complete download did work.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8

[DJGM]

This is not really a major new release, despite the major version number jumping to 11.0. It's really only an
incremental update with bugfixes, rather than a bunch of new features. I think of it as Firefox 4.7, not 11.
At the same, the Firefox 10 ESR version is updated to 10.0.3, or you could look at it as 4.6.3 instead.

The last really major version of Firefox was 4.0 - released exactly 51 weeks ago, after umpteen betas.


TBH ... software version numbers are becoming more and more meaningless.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 Lightning/1.2.1

[James]

TBH ... software version numbers are becoming more and more meaningless.

Indeed. We've been saying this all along but Mozilla doesn't listen anymore.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0

[DJGM]

TBH ... software version numbers are becoming more and more meaningless.

Indeed. We've been saying this all along but Mozilla doesn't listen anymore.

I'd say we should ignore all the version numbers altogether, and just update software as and when we need to.
Firefox is officially up to v11.0, Chrome is up to v17, IE is up to v9 (or 10 on W8) SeaMonkey is up to v2.8,
while Safari is up to v5.1.4, and Opera (desktop PC/Mac version) is up to v11.61. Yeah, right, whatever!
Ultimately though, who gives a . . . . ?!?

I couldn't care less if a version number is 1.5.9.0.3 or 159.0.3, as long as the software works as well as we
expect it to, it's as bug-free as it can be, and all known security vulnerabilities (if any) are fully patched.

IIRC ... it was recently speculated that Mozilla might start hiding version numbers, except in - Help - About.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 Lightning/1.2.1

[Fulvio]

I have, never, paid attention to the v. number.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) RockMelt/0.16.91.345 Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7

[Antony]

TBH ... software version numbers are becoming more and more meaningless.

Thank you for keeping the record.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 AlexaToolbar/alxf-2.14 Firefox/3.6.28