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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: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