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

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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[Greyfox]

A firefox upgrade that required me to reboot my system was pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I'd been growing increasingly annoyed with the browser and its developers as time went on. I stopped using it at home about a year ago in favor of Chrome. Firefox had introduced a change that broke the archaic application stack I'd been maintaining at the time. I found someone else on one of their forums who was having the same problem I was, and he received a only-slightly-more-politely worded "fuck off" from the developers. So I started looking around again. Of course, I was already pissed off about the way they'd gone out of their way to break the C standard library IP address resolution on OSX. The only reason I was keeping Firefox around after that was no one else at the time had a usable noscript add-on. As soon as someone wrote one in Chrome, I was off like a shot. Chrome also seems to be more consistent across all the operating systems I use it on, but that's just a bonus.

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[The Cat]

A giant firehose of shit. Hooray!