<story><title>Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011</title><url>http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/02/07/firefox-4-5-6-and-7-to-be-released-before-the-end-of-2011/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecaron</author><text>To be able to support this, they&apos;re going to need to do some major overhaul of how add-on versioning works. As a Add-On developer (&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/font-finder/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/font-finder/&lt;/a&gt;), I shudder at the thought of 10,000 different addons needing to keep having their support version incremented w/ each upcoming release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fligtar</author><text>Hi ecaron,&lt;p&gt;I lead the add-ons team at Mozilla. Add-on compatibility was definitely a big consideration in our plans to switch to a faster release cycle, and we&apos;re working on proposing some changes to the way it works. As you mention, the current way of doing things won&apos;t work 4 times a year.&lt;p&gt;These changes will probably include automatic compatibility with certain major versions. We&apos;ll have more to share soon on the add-ons blog.</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011</title><url>http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/02/07/firefox-4-5-6-and-7-to-be-released-before-the-end-of-2011/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecaron</author><text>To be able to support this, they&apos;re going to need to do some major overhaul of how add-on versioning works. As a Add-On developer (&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/font-finder/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/font-finder/&lt;/a&gt;), I shudder at the thought of 10,000 different addons needing to keep having their support version incremented w/ each upcoming release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cfinke</author><text>I have 21 different add-ons on AMO right now, and while it&apos;s kind of annoying to do so, it only takes me about 10 minutes to update the maxVersion on all of them every time a new version of Firefox comes out.  Of course, the problem isn&apos;t that it&apos;s hard or takes a long time to do; the problem is that developers forget to do it.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&apos;s time for Mozilla to move to using minVersion only, like Chrome does.</text></comment>