Mozilla decides to abandon Firefox 3.7 change development process

According to a foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> Media report, a Mozilla official said in Thursday that Mozilla has made significant changes to the way Firefox is developed, and plans to remove Firefox version 3.7 from the development plan, instead of a step-by-step upgrade throughout the year.

"Mozilla will no longer take the option of adding functionality to Firefox in one or two upgrades a year," says Mike Beltzner, manager of Mozilla's Firefox browser, in a Thursday interview. Firefox is typically a security upgrade for 4-6 weeks.

This means that Firefox 3.7, originally scheduled to be released in the second quarter of this year, has been withdrawn from the development plan, Beltzner said. The next version of this Open-source software browser, which will be available after the upcoming Firefox 3.6 browser, is an updated software that has not been named so far at the end of this year or early 2011.

In fact, the lesson that Mozilla learned from Firefox 3.6 software was that it decided to stop releasing Firefox 3.7. The alternative is that Mozilla will add back-office functionality to Firefox via security updates. The security update for Firefox is conducted every 4 weeks or more.

Mozilla's developers have been discussing the issue in a variety of mailing lists for some time, and have named Firefox's first such update "Lorentz".

Beltzner said. The first goal of this small update is to separate the plugin flow from the Firefox browser. Mozilla is already studying a project called "Point Solution". In this project, Firefox will run each label as a separate process. The idea is to prevent a Web site running a tag from crashing across the browser. Google's Chrome browser, for example, has added this feature.