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Mozilla Unveils 'Aggressive' Firefox OS Schedule: Quarterly Feature Releases

Posted by Soulskill on from the foxes-are-frequently-aggressive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With Firefox OS version 1.0 out the door, Mozilla has decided that it's time to unveil its strategy for new versions. The company is planning to make feature releases available to partners every quarter and push out security updates for the previous two feature releases every six weeks. 'As far as I know, that's the most aggressive mobile OS release strategy out there,' Alex Keybl, Mozilla's Manager of Release Management, said in a statement. 'This sort of alignment across multiple browser products, and now an OS, is unprecedented at the pace we're moving.'"

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  1. Re:what is it? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > What is it that bothers people about Firefox?

    * Lack of each browser tab running as a separate process. One "hung" tab and it freezes all the other ones. /sarcasm That's real bright in this day and age.
    * Lack of a tab overview to see how much EACH tab is using CPU-wise, Memory-Wise, and FPS. Google Chrome: Tools - Task Manager. Enough said.
    * Leaks memory like a sieve. The running joke is that FF is a memory hog. The bigger problem is closing tabs doesn't restore memory! WTF? The ONLY way to "fix" the memory hog is to close & restart the browser. Dev's don't give a fuck to fix.

    Been using Firefox before 1.0. Hated Chrome when it came out but jumped to Chrome around FF v6 - v9. Google's V8 engine dynamically compiles Javascript to x86. Along with superior WebGL support there is nothing FF has at this point. :-(