Firefox 24 released

Most of the world considers a version increase from 23.x to 24 to represent a major release, with many new and changed features. Not so with Firefox. In the interest of marketing, Mozilla has tossed out anything resembling industry standards for naming Firefox’s version numbers.

Version 24 of Firefox fixes a few minor bugs and adds some very minor enhancements: nothing worthy of a major version increase. Version 24 does include several security fixes, which can be seen on the Security Advisories page.

I suppose it almost goes without saying by now, but the release notes and related announcements for Firefox still leave a lot to be desired (see my post about Firefox 23 for details).

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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