0veR Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 It appears that Mozilla is at least exploring a accelerating the release pace of major Firefox iterations per the Google Chrome model, if not also already working to make it a reality.In this regard, users could be running the successor of Firefox 4.0 very soon after its release.How soon? Well, according to Brendan Eich co-founder of mozilla.org and the CTO of Mozilla, Firefox 5.0 could be finalized and made available to customers in just a few months after the release of Firefox 4.0.Eich delivered the closing remarks in the first Weekly Engineering Newsletter, and while the focus was placed on the need to finalize Firefox 4.0 as soon as possible, he also mentioned Firefox 5.0.At the time when the newsletter was published there were still some 90 severe bugs marked as hard blockers, which all need to be resolved before Firefox 4.0 can be launched.In addition to the hard blockers there are also a few hundred less severe bugs which can always be pushed to maintenance updates for Firefox 4.0 or to the next version.“Cast a colder eye on your blockers. Some of them can wait for a dot release or Firefox 5 that I do believe will be only months after 4 comes out. We are going to a fast release cycle. It serves our users better. To do that we have to get this touch and go done with Firefox 4,” Eich said. (emphasis added)There’s no telling for sure at this point in time whether Mozilla’s release strategy for Firefox will change.Fact is that Google has managed to put a lot of pressure on its competitors, and even Microsoft speeded up considerably the development process of Internet Explorer, narrowing the gap between releases.Having major Firefox versions ship a few months apart would certainly be a response to Chrome, whose major iterations are now separated by approximately six weeks.Of course, Mozilla still has to deliver Firefox 4.0, which it intends doing by the end of February 2011, with a couple of Beta release due in the next two weeks.“You do a touch and go and then you can release and people get all this benefit of Firefox 4 instead of 3.6. That's what we need to do.“Some of those blockers are, and I have some, soft in the sense that they're edge cases. We probably can wait on those. We're not going to kick them out yet because if we have the parallel bandwidth of all our great people and the volunteer community too where we have volunteers doing some of this work, we'll take a fix if it's an additive and safe fix.“But at some point we have to stop that. I think we're past that point and I'm going to treat my bugs accordingly and I encourage everyone here to do that,” Eich added. :lol:Source: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 24, 2011 Administrator Share Posted January 24, 2011 Well well... It sounds good but can also be a mistake. Mozilla Firefox rides on addons, it's already hard to get them work on Firefox 4. They should work hard on JetPack if they want to release Firefox 5 in few months.But who doesn't like numbers? :D Either way I'm sure Mozilla would have something it their pockets to plan another major release in such a small amount of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0nyB Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Well well... It sounds good but can also be a mistake. Mozilla Firefox rides on addons, it's already hard to get them work on Firefox 4. They should work hard on JetPack if they want to release Firefox 5 in few months.But who doesn't like numbers? :D Either way I'm sure Mozilla would have something it their pockets to plan another major release in such a small amount of time.I'd have to agree with you. But the one thing I don't like about this, is that, they should resolve bugs in FF4 1st, then release a new version. It will be 2 and a half years after 3.0, when FF 4 will be out and I think a year after 3.6 was released. Why push it with an other version so quickly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 DKT27 - nail on the head. If you dont have add-ons, you dont have Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Mozilla better not imitate Google. It's for their own good -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I don't know.. if this is a result of other breakthroughs while writing code in 4 then good.... Very rare for Mozilla to actually release full versions that closely.. and I think that this is just like or the same as ver 4 was to 3.. shortly around the time of 3 or 3.5 release.. 4 was already there...Nice Sig Irefay! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sl@pSh0ck™ Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 what ever it is they have cooking, as long as it reads Firefox, I'd buy it! Obvious fanboy is an obvious fanboy :tooth: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 25, 2011 Administrator Share Posted January 25, 2011 Got some info about Mozilla planning "advanced" hardware acceleration for Firefox 5. Nothing confirmed though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spootnack Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Good news ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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