Firefox: In with the new, out with the compatibility

Another day, another version of Firefox -- like rival Google has done with Chrome, Mozilla has put Firefox on an endless update cycle, with new versions every six weeks or so. Unlike the case with Chrome, compatibility issues seems to be the price to be paid for having Firefox's version number change so often, with no obvious beneficial changes in exchange.

For example, the new Firefox 11 breaks compatibility with older versions of TinyMCE, the open source AJAX tool used by countless websites to provide rich text editing. If you see a row of Office-like formatting icon buttons, that's TinyMCE in action; in Firefox 11, you often see a blank window rather than your contents -- that's the bug. Read more...