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Firefox 3.7 Dropped In Favor of Feature Updates

Posted by kdawson on from the lessons-from-the-trenches dept.

Barence sends in a report from pcpro.co.uk that says "Under its original plans, Mozilla would roll out Firefox 3.6 and 3.7 over the course of 2009, each bringing minor improvements to the browser. However, a steady stream of delays to Firefox 3.6 has rendered that goal unobtainable, forcing Mozilla to rethink its release. As a result, Firefox 3.7 has been dropped and will be replaced with feature updates for Firefox 3.6 that will be rolled out with security updates. This should free up the team to work on the next major release, Firefox 4, slated for the last quarter of 2010, which is expected to follow the same development process." Updated 20100116 00:54 GMT by timothy: Alexander Limi, from Firefox User Experience, says that the PC Pro article linked above misinterprets the situation, and that 3.7 is still on the roadmap before 4.0. The confusion stems from a schedule realignment: the out-of-process plugins feature, originally slated to land in 3.7, will instead ship as a minor update in Firefox's 3.6 series. According to Limi, CNET gets it right."

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  1. Firesucks my a$$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP ?

  2. Multithreading by electrosoccertux · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    People have said Firefox is multithreaded, and I'm no coder, but I know when a piece of software is using all available resources.
    Firefox never goes above 25% CPU usage when I open up a new window (which in turn loads about 15 tabs). Maybe the Gecko rendering engine can't render two pages at once. All I know is that the Firefox becomes unusable/unresponsive on my quad core for about 5 seconds while everything loads. Chrome hits much higher CPU usage-- but it doesn't have [true] adblock.

  3. ma8e by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    started work on = 1440 NetBSD By BSDI who sell

  4. Aw, somebody likes to skim (I covered that) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Awe look, someone who thinks they know threading talks about how to do it ..." - by BitZtream (692029) on Friday January 15, @06:21PM (#30785542)

    LOL, "look before you leap" & per my subject-line above? I cover that inside my original post, via this link in its P.S. section here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1497542&cid=30653170 Still, do read on (instead of skimming only on your part):

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    "By default, you have no reason to make those API calls unless you want to limit to a certain CPU or set of CPUs, out of the box, by default, all CPUs are fair game for any thread." - by BitZtream (692029) on Friday January 15, @06:21PM (#30785542)

    Once more/again: See here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1497542&cid=30653170

    Which was DEEPER in my original post (& if you'd read it, you'd see I covered that which you speak of, due to your obvious "skimming" & NOT reading my post & it's URL's inside of it too).

    APK

    P.S.=> As far as "just talking about it"? I've been writing multithreaded apps since, oh, 1996-1997 or thereabouts. Here is one in fact ->

    APK Registry Cleaning Engine 2002++ SR-7:

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    http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/389/APK_Registry_Cleaning_Engine_2002++_SR-7_.html

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    AND

    APK Matrix ScreenSaver:

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    http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/390/.html

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    & here are evidences of even MORE, both professionally AND in the shareware/freeware circuit (probably for years before you were in highschool possibly), one even making it into COMMERCIAL APPLICATION CODE (as well as being a finalist @ Microsoft Tech Ed 2000-2002, 2 yrs. in a row no less, in its HARDEST CATEGORY - SQLServer Performance Enhancement):

    "My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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    Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

    (&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).

    WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

    PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

    WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

    PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

    CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

    GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

    HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

    Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

    Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c