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Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch

Posted by michael on from the long-live-the-gecko dept.

iswm writes "MozillaZine has announced that the Mozilla 1.7 branch will become the new long-lived stable branch, replacing 1.4. The stable branch is intended to act as a baseline for developers building Mozilla-based products, with critical bugs fixed on the branch as well as the trunk. Mozilla Firefox 1.0, a new milestone of Mozilla Thunderbird, a new Camino release and several third party Mozilla based products will be based on Mozilla 1.7, so the Foundation is making efforts to ensure that it is high quality."

3 of 407 comments (clear)

  1. Re:So What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Well, in short term I suppose it will delight the consumers because it's free.

    However, in the long run it won't contribute to the economy at all because it's freely distributable and open source

    It won't create new jobs nor will it make the money move around which is the engine of a capitalist society.

  2. Re:Happy birthday to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow...you must be one hell of a loser if a piece of software being released is conisdered a gift.

  3. Re:Happy birthday to me by Gramie2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm curious: what makes you think that anyone would give even a microscopic particle of a damn when your birthday is?

    Oh wait. I just checked, and the universe does revolve around you.

    I didn't set out to be snarky when I got up this morning, but some comments really have no redeeming value.