Mozilla VP Talks the State of Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 4, 2006 @08:38AM from the what's-the-fox-up-to dept.

lisah writes "As Firefox downloads pass the 200 million mark, people are talking about how its security features stack up against IE7 and protect against malware. Mozilla VP Mike Schroepfer told NewsForge's Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier that security will continue to be an issue 'for anything written in native code' but Mozilla intends to meet the challenge by including JavaScript 1.7 with the browser's 2.0 release. Schroepfer also talked about the timeline of future releases and offered just enough information to wet our whistles for 3.0."

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I believe... by archcommus · 2006-08-04 08:42 · Score: 4, Informative

It's spelled "whet." Either way the 3.0 stuff is interesting.
1. Re:I believe... by jejones · 2006-08-04 08:49 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Something "whets your appetite," and that's probably what the author intended to write. To "wet your whistle" is to moisten your dry mouth (not necessarily to slake your thirst--wetting your whistle doesn't go that far), and has nothing to do with making someone eager for anything... but maybe the author was thinking of something like
  
  "After a long day of coding, I like to kick back and sip an ice-cold bottle of Mozilla..."?