In article <pan.2006.05.15.14.47.31.526344@bluewin.ch>,
Mark South <mark.south@null.invalid> wrote:

> Think of all those people who loved Firefox and were using 1.06 or
> whatever, and suddenly couldn't be happy because someone else was running
> 1.5. Even though 1.5 didn't add anything special, it HAD A HIGHER VERSION!

The Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.x series are not getting any security
updates anymore, and since web browsers and email clients deal with
untrusted content pretty much exclusively, there is actually a reason to
upgrade them beyond just wanting the latest and greatest. (PV is
actually putting in these upgrades as patches for Slackware 10.2.) Other
than that, I agree with your sentiment.