First off, this is not just a question of version numbering. 6.0 is not really just 5.0.whatever. Mozilla made a decision to release fewer new features more often, rather than lots of new features less often. Each release is now introducing new stuff, new APIs' and things are breaking.
Therefore, it makes a huge difference for those of us in corporate IT who have to manage software rollouts. I used to allow automatic updates at my company. I have now turned them off. Firefox is bad enough, but the killer is Thunderbird.
For example, We especially rely upon Lightning functioning with every release. When 5.0 came out, Lightning didn't auto-update, and the previous version didn't work on 5.0. There WAS a working version that we were able to use, manually. We can't afford this crap. If our users are constantly updating every time TB or Firefox asks them too, critical stuff breaks, and thus we are left with a support nightmare.
Therefore, it makes a huge difference for those of us in corporate IT who have to manage software rollouts. I used to allow automatic updates at my company. I have now turned them off. Firefox is bad enough, but the killer is Thunderbird.
For example, We especially rely upon Lightning functioning with every release. When 5.0 came out, Lightning didn't auto-update, and the previous version didn't work on 5.0. There WAS a working version that we were able to use, manually. We can't afford this crap. If our users are constantly updating every time TB or Firefox asks them too, critical stuff breaks, and thus we are left with a support nightmare.