The Takeaway: Why Firefox is picking up the release pace
07.07.2015
Mozilla has decided that its current 18-week development schedule is too slow, prompting it to pick up the pace for pushing out new features for its Firefox browser.
And in a turnabout from plans discussed last year, Mozilla now says it will develop a browser for Windows 10. Microsoft's new operating systems arrives July 29, and will include the new Edge browser to supplant Internet Explorer (IE).
Mozilla's plans followed from decisions made last week at an all-hands meeting in Whistler, a Canadian ski resort town north of Vancouver, BC, last week. Dave Camp, director of Firefox engineering, posted detailed the company's current thinking to a mailing list and in a blog post.
In nutshell, here's what Mozilla has in mind, and why:
With reports by Gregg Keizer from Computerworld.
Ken Mingis