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Modifying its development strategy, Mozilla will drop Firefox 3.7, and plans to issue incremental feature changes along with security updates every four to six weeks. Version 3.6 is still coming by the end of January, and Mozilla made the first RC build available last week.
The decision came from working on Firefox 3.6. "We learned an awful lot about what slows down our schedule, and that will help us plan for future releases," said Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox. One of the first additions planned after 3.6 is the separation of plug-in processes from the browser (not Electrolysis in its entirety), and there is a focus on Adobe Flash because it is responsible for more Firefox crashes than any other plug-in.
This approach will be "a huge advantage to users" as they will receive useful additions more frequently, and Mozilla can bypass the time-consuming beta cycles that come with larger releases. Not everything will trickle out in a security update, though, with changes such as the interface revamp for Windows Vista and 7 still requiring beta testing.
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I think the firefox community is still alive because of its addons.. I am totally dissapointed by firefox.. But it seems they want to make a change!
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"I'm proud of how we challenged ourselves," said Beltzner, referring to the quick-strike schedule that Mozilla plotted out for Firefox 3.6, but didn't meet."
That sure is some world class spin right there, yes indeedy.
Looking forward to the next iteration of Firefox's roadmap next month, and the month after that...
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tengeta said:
Security needs are increasing with Firefox, its becoming mainstream and its got a bullseye on their transition users that start using it and download malicious add-ons.
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muy buena la pagina felicitaciones muy actualizada desde chile un gran abrazo amigos patricio guzman aedo
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What did the Guest say?
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No se. No hablo espanol.
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Guest said: very good page congratulations, vey up to date. Big hug from Chile, friends
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I wholly stand for Mozilla Firefox Browser forever.
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