The Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a whole cake for previous Firefox releases.

http://www.openbuddha.com/2011/03/22/another-version-of-fire...

What does this mean?! Perhaps Firefox 5's release is not as significant as earlier versions? ;-P

It means that the IE team clearly saw through Mozilla's transparent attempt to get more cake by releasing more often.

Yeah, they are just too smart. Smart and cruel. I mean, look at the size of that box, and compare it with the size of the cupcake. It's a freaking tease.

I meant that in the sense that they are switching to rolling versions (i.e. no more versions, it's just 'firefox')

Firefox 5 is the first of a string of insignificant releases. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Development

It's a conceptual change. If your product is going to be incrementally evolved, major releases won't exist, so version numbers are not milestones anymore.

If they didn't do this, but switched to incremental development and still followed standard versioning practices, we'd be stuck at 4.xxx forever :)

Times are tough for MS, can only afford a cupcake now. Maybe a donut next... then an eclair...

Given the content per major release of Firefox now, an eclair is the most apt thing :P

Then onto gingerbread or perhaps an cream sandwich.

I'd like to see them send Google one for every Chrome release.

That would get expensive.

I think that's why they switched to cupcakes.

Smaller changes, smaller cakes.

They spent all that money on Skype and now this is all they can afford. It's the thought that counts.

Sincerely, this is a lovely tradition.

I was just about to say the same thing — this is my favourite industry tradition. Hats off.

They should send IE text-shadow

Now that Firefox 5 has a smaller release cycle, does that mean smaller cakes? :-)

I like when developers can put aside the retarded faux hatred we are all supposed to have for each other as dictated by our corporate / OSS overlords and do things like this, of course I am sure many will find some demeaning/ulterior motivevs, because you know, no way the IE team actually has human beings on it.

Too bad they didn't roll out a funeral procession like they did for the iPhone when Windows Phone launched...

IE team loves to poke shots at other browsers. Anyone remember the giant E placed on the lawn of Netscape's office in Mountain View? I think it was ~1997. They then dominated the browser market for the next few years.

That's awesome. Mozilla was very inconsiderate of the IE team on changing release cycles :D

appropriately sized