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Bugs Force Another Round of Mozilla Updates

Posted by timothy on from the mozilla-project-still-rocks-the-world dept.

cybersaga writes "ZDNet reports: "The open source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client will be updated for the second time in a week due to code changes that have unintentionally stopped some third-party extensions from functioning correctly." More details at MozillaZine. Firefox and Thunderbird versions 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 are on their way."

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  1. Re:Even worse by asa · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even worse is that the ubercomplex translation scheme used in the mozilla software is driving crazy the translators.

    Firefox 1.0.x translations are not ubercomplex and require little more of the translators than to test and sign off on the translated builds that Mozilla produces. Thunderbird 1.0.x is not as good because we do not have the translations in our CVS repository (which means we can't produce continual builds like we do for Firefox) so the translators have to hand package their translations.

    On the development trunk (the road to the next major Firefox release) we have both Firefox and Thunderbird translations in CVS so this will not be an issue there.

    - A

  2. Re:third party? by asa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or, rather, is it that the extensions are now broken? Let's not make the mistake of sacrificing progress for compatibility.

    Actually, the most popular Thunderbird extension and at least one Firefox extension were broken by changes to our code that were not strictly necessary. Let's not make the mistake of sacrificing compatibility for expedience. The 1.0 branch is a long-lived stable branch and we care about people who are developing for that branch. Breaking our developers on a stable branch should not be done without serious consideration (if at all) and certainly not as the result of time pressures.

    - A