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Firefox 3.7 dropped from Mozilla's development plan
Mozilla has changed their entire strategy on how they will be developing their Firefox browser. There are plans to drop Firefox 3.7 from the schedule and the hope is to release "incremental updates throughout the year", the company says. This move marks a major change in the way that Mozilla operates. Instead of adding features to the popular web browser at a few select times over the year, Mozilla wants to slip in new features and functionality every few weeks. What this means to us? Well, it means Firefox 3.7 is no more. Originally, the plan was to release version 3.6 and 3.7 a few months apart with features that would pave the way for version 4.0 next year. Apparently, a lot of work has been done on 3.6 causing it to be delayed slightly but packed with usefulness.
The new project, code names "Lorentz" is said to include Mozilla's new Electrolysis process - a method of making each tab its own process, much like the way Chrome operates. The developers also want to try and remove the connection between browsers and plug-ins allowing them to work separately in case of crashes.
It'll be interesting to see what comes out of Mozilla's labs and how Firefox continues to evolve, especially with this new development cycle.
[via ComputerWorld]
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Subscribe to commentsRupan IIIJan 15th 2010 9:17AM
Firefox needs to fix NOW. It has been running like crud on my machine for months. I'm on Chrome, and i really prefer Mozilla.
ranovaJan 15th 2010 9:21AM
they need to move up the 4.0 milestone... I've already switched from firefox to chrome now that it has extensions and a butt load faster
GenericJan 15th 2010 10:05AM
I think that Mozilla made a proper move to run plug-ins in their separate processes. On the other hand, it is not clear what a feature is. System admins that might use Firefox will have to plan for the security of the features added. Although having Flash running in its own process is a God sent feature, it is probably not that great to have other features that need maintenance and system wide control to creep in the browser as a minor update. This is why IE has had a wider acceptance in the workplace of large corporate infrastructures. IE can be administered in a much easier way than Firefox or any other browser for that matter. I hope Mozilla tries to cater for this particular aspect of browser security, i.e. network wide management, in its next milestone release.
TraceJan 15th 2010 11:07AM
Is it just me or does it feel like Mozilla was feeling the heat from Chrome constantly updating and getting new feature(dev channel only).
But hopefully this means faster and more stable releases =)
quantaJan 15th 2010 6:13PM
I'm optimistic about this new approach. Mozilla Corp has always been perfectionists which has caused launch delays - remember how v3.1's scope kept growing until they had to rename it to v3.5? A more web-app like approach with incremental enhancements would be a nice change.
SilverWaveJan 16th 2010 4:07AM
On the ff front...
3.7 gets renamed to 4.0 and on we go.
Then the 3.7 stuff gets rolled in to 3.6 a bit each month over the next year... seems like a winner.
re Google...
Chromium is good for some uses at the moment but ff3.6pre is good _and_ has all those extensions :)
Full Greasemonkey support in Chromium is the biggest miss, now that they have basic extension support.
I dragged and dropped some of my gm scripts over from ff and the installation works fine - they are turned into extensions :D neat...
But they were not working consistently :(
... and its too much trouble when it just works in Firefox.
Overall Chrome has been good for Firefox always pushing them on.
Speed it Good & 2010 is going to be a great year :D