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> I want Firefox to update ASAP

Firefox is the perfect example of why I hate user facing apps updating constantly. They're always adding random features, breaking plugins (still don't have vertical tabs working properly) and shifting the UI around. It was much better back when they had stable releases.

> The distribution model should only apply to libraries and base tools.

As long as nothing breaks it doesn't worry me how many times libc is updated, it's the user facing changes that interrupt me I want to avoid.

> And even those should be versioned so they can coexist easily and I'm easily able to install any app, from the ones that want GTK1 to the ones that want GTKLatest.

If they can't commit to stable releases and non-breaking API then they aren't going to commit to maintaining the 15 versions of GTK that you'd end up with on your system, that's the worst of every world.