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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.'"

4 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Ignoring nasty resource leaks 4 times a year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember when Mozilla just made a good browser? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

  2. Re:Isn't all of it ridiculously aggressive now? by Hamsterdan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Firefox ME won't be so stable.

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  3. Re:what is it? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm posting this using Firefox. Running under Linux. On a an old laptop with a Celeron processor, from the Good Old Days when a CPU was a CPU and we didn't need no steenkin' "cores"! 2GB RAM, about 1.5GB of that showing as free. 1, 2, 3, ... 9, 10, 11 tabs open. No issues here.

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  4. Re:Carriers will eat Firefox OS alive. by Enry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It depends, at least in the US. T-Mobile is moving towards a "bring whatever device you want" approach, and Google has started directly selling their Nexus phones to consumers. I think this will start to improve once most carriers standardize on LTE-only and the phones are a bit more universal than they are now. With the Qualcomm CDMA patents out of the way, the barrier to entry to the Verizon network goes away and their phones will drop in price and more vendors will want to sell for the Verizon market.