[HTTPS-Everywhere] New major releases for Firefox and Chrome

[Erik Harris]

On 2/27/2012 9:19 PM, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> And 2.0.1 Stable has been released for Firefox:
> https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-2.0.1.xpi

Might you consider a way to tweak the dev version numbers so that 
dev-stable updates are handled properly?  "2.0.1" comes before 
"2.0devevelopment.6" alphabetically, so when Firefox searches for 
updates to my plugins, this update isn't found because it's a "lower" 
version number (at least, I assume that's why it doesn't update). I've 
noticed this for previous dev-stable updates, but hadn't mentioned it. 
Anyone who has used a development release in the past and doesn't 
closely follow this email list will be stuck on "2.0dev.6" until a 
development version for the next release becomes available.

Maybe development releases could be x.x.0.[1-9].dev and stable releases 
could be x.x.[1-9]?  For example, "2.0.0.6.dev" would have been the last 
development release prior to "2.0.1" and the increment in version number 
would cause Firefox to see and install the update automatically.

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