This may be of interest for Firefox, SeaMonkey, and ...

[gcmartin]

With any change, it is always met with responses from the many.

I neither agree or disagree with this article,but, it is a piece of useful information for understanding Mozilla release versioning.

Hope this helps

[Digital_Dissident]

I may be missing something but I don't see how the article explains why Mozilla is using full-next-numbers for what appear to be nothing more than maintenance releases, i.e. bug fixes and security updates.