The Firefox Version Naming System

I don't understand how Mozilla comes up with the version numbers for new releases. Would it be so difficult to use a Debian-style six month release cycle? Why not steadily increment the version number? Why are the nightlies of Firefox 4 called 3.7? Will there be a 3.8? A 3.9? How is Chrome wich was released several years after the first version of Firefox already on version 5? Safari, is on version 4, and it too is younger than Firefox.

Background Size Matters

Was anyone else wondering what happened to -moz-background-size in Firefox nightlies? No? Just me? Well, for future reference it would appear that it was removed in favor of supporting the unprefixed property background-size.

Borderless Radius

Apparently Firefox no longer requires the border property to be specified in order to render -moz-border-radius. I haven't tested this on Gecko 1.92 yet (I'm using a nightly), but I can confirm that Chrome 5 accepts the implicit border as well. Firefox 3.0 required border to be set, making border: 1px solid transparent a designer's best friend.

Mozilla Developer Preview Now Available With Out-of-Process Plugins

Just posted on the Mozilla Developer Center, with regard to Firefox nightlies.

The main feature of this release is out-of-process plugins: on Windows and Linux, plugins such as Flash and Silverlight run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted.