Firefox Changing up Release Strategy

February 8, 2011 · by John Ponio

Instead of releasing beta after beta after beta, Mozilla wants to roll out new versions more quickly. The “tl;dr” version from the wiki will follow. It looks like Firefox is getting more and more interested in “web apps” and plans to include more methods to involve them. Here’s the shortened roadmap, and again the wiki can be read here.

Ship Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 in the 2011 calendar year
Always respond to a user action within 50 ms
Never lose user data or state
Build Web Apps, Identity and Social into the Open Web Platform
Support new operating systems and hardware
Polish the user experience for common interaction tasks
Plan and architect for a future of a common platform on which the desktop and mobile products will be built and run Web Apps