Mozilla Releases Firefox 5.0 Just Months After 4.0

I've been a more or less monogamous Firefox user since it was Phoenix, a tiny project with a sense of humour and a goal of minimizing memory footprint. (I have 8 GB but a web browser using 200-500 MB of memory still offends my ossified 90s mindset :)) Lately, though, they're just starting to piss me off a bit: (1) The 4.0 UI is certainly sleeker, but still manages (in my eyes) to not look like a proper Aero application. More importantly, the new Firefox button doesn't actually replace all of the old menus completely, so you have to Alt into them from time to time. That would have been easy to avoid I think. Sloppy. *slap on wrist* (2) This WebGL issue Paul recently mentioned. It's not just a convenient accusation from Microsoft, as I cynically assumed at first. According to Wikipedia both independent private and government organizations have given similar warnings about WebGL. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically a novelty feature at the moment, and should thus be exiled to a plugin or something of that nature, especially if it's a security risk. (3) I get the idea with the new release schedule. But I just updated to 5.0, and I honestly cannot detect a scintilla of difference. Minor releases are what we have that number after the decimal point for. I see in the release notes that there _are_ real changes, but they're still 4.1 changes, 4.5 if we're generous. Mozilla: I know all the cool kids are spewing out major point releases with little justification, but an established and respected open source project should know better. All we ask is a stable release interval somewhere between three months and three years...

"even more awesomeness" ....except that their open source background is going to be what buries them. How do you get "super speed" without full hardware acceleration anyway?

ZDnet is reporting that Firefox 5 is the security update for 4, so they're going to start pulling a trick out of Google's playbook from now on. If this is going to be the case, then they should just drop the ".0" from the version number.