Why doesnt FF go back to 1 update per year or so?

Last couple of years it seems like FF is updated every other week, or two, forcing everybody, users and developers, to recode their plugins and users to find new ways to have their little thingies done. Some things that were easy last year are a f*ckin pain now, if not impossible, and some take hours or even days to figure out how to have your normal settings back.
Not only that: complete WEBSITES that worked fine in previous versions are a pain, some/most forced me and my gf to go back using bl00dy Internet Explorer again, ffs! Won't mention the safety issues!
I'm FED UP with this and I'm sure lots of others are too!
Percentage of FF users in my country has dropped from 50%+ to about ten%, mhmmm I wonder why?

Not talking about data loss, and I know how to make a backup by now (DUH, that link was some insult, thank you!). I was talking about having to redo settings, websites acting funny after an update and add-ons not working anymore... basically everyone has to reinvent the wheel!
But; you mean 40k people are working on developing firefox and cant get it right? Or does it mean 40k open source developers have to re-engineer their own work in order to keep up with your updates? I know quite a few that have given up. Even ppl that made skins (coz your 'true new blue' layout is ugly as fuck) said ah fuck it, I just REDID the whole thing, now there's an update AGAIN, my *new* skin not working and I have to start from scratch again...
Your reply tells me MF is just ignoring the problem... No wonder that usage of FF has dropped to 10% here...
Dont bother to forward to anything or anyone, dont think it's of much use. It's only a matter of time till some smart kids come up with a new, inventive and smaller footprint browser... you have become dinosaurs!

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Congratulations on getting to open beta with Flash Catalyst!
I know its late in the game to mention something like this but why didnt Abobe just update Flash Professional?
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A Sprite symbol is essentially organized the in layers and folders and would just like a photoshop file.
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States of the component would be listed out at the top instead of frames, just like the Button Symbol used to be. Different layers could be designated for specific graphical parts of the component. The designer would be free to add their own layers if necessary.
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The multi screen applications in 4) look pretty similar to the Slide Presentation Template. Why not just make a new MultiScreen App Template and youre done. these MultiScreenApp Templates could exporte Screens to FXG or export the whole Template to a FXP.
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Flash Professional needs to keep up with AS3 and also needs to export FXG and FXP.
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Thanks for your explanation. I appreciate your feedback.
I'm glad we agree that ideally there should be 2 main tools, one for designers(Flash Professional) and one for programming(Flash Builder).
You had mentioned "But, that assumes this is possible. As it currently stands it is not" and the reason being "Catalyst, and Builder both use a completely different framework from Professional. The component architecture is drastically different, not to mention the entire backend of the software.".
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Framework can refer to 3 things in this case.
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2) the code framework(AS3)
3) the flex framework (mxml, fxg)
If you are refering to #1 then you're right, because Adobe hasnt updated the flash component framework in Flash Professional from Flex3 Halo components to Flex4 Spark components.
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If you are refering to #2 then I think you're incorrect, because Flash Professional has been updated to AS3 and Flex4 Spark components use AS3. I would totally agree with you, if CS4 did not go through all of the trouble updating to AS3.
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Maybe we should make some noise before its too late.
I'm still interested in seeing more links that show the logic behind the initial discussions of this debate when it was first decided.
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