Mozilla Pitches Firefox 3.1 Alpha For July Release 257
An anonymous reader writes "Just a week after Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.0, the open-source developer has proposed ship dates for the next version that, if approved, would produce an alpha release next month and a final no later than early 2009. According to a draft schedule discussed at a recent meeting, Mozilla wants to have the first Firefox 3.1 developer preview ready by July, then move to a beta by August. The schedule slates final code delivery in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of 2009. A month ago, when Mozilla first started discussing Firefox 3.1 internally, Mike Schroepfer, the company's vice president of engineering, said the upgrade's target ship date was the end of 2008. If Mozilla holds to that plan, Firefox 3.1 would be its first fast-track update. Firefox 3.0, for instance, launched approximately 20 months after its predecessor, Firefox 2.0."
Acid 3 (Score:4, Funny)
Let's hope the Mozilla devs get the Acid3 test [acidtests.org] to work with Firefox 3.1.
Well, I can dream, can't I?
Re:No Offence To The Devs or Firefox (Score:5, Funny)
What significance that has depends on how much you care [xkcd.com], I guess.
Re:Acid 3 (Score:1, Funny)
obligatory 3.11 for Workgroups tired nerd joke goes here
Can't blame them... (Score:5, Funny)
And after Firefox 3.1 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cake? (Score:3, Funny)
MSIE developers already figured out the cake is a lie long ago.
Re:Useless summary (Score:5, Funny)
What's after Firefox 3.1? (Score:1, Funny)
Right now it's Firefox 3.0 and soon we'll have Firefox 3.1. What's planned beyond that?
Firefox 3.11 for Workgroups
Firefox 95, then 95b, then 95c.
Firefox NT
Firefox 98, then Firefox 98SE
Firefox Me
Firefox 2000
Firefox XP
Firefox Vista
Firefox 7
Then someone will come up with a new program, which will be a "browser-only" browser!!
Nah, just kidding. Don't take it seriously. :-)
Re:And after Firefox 3.1 (Score:3, Funny)
Comes Firefox 95!
Nope, it will be 3.11 and FWG... THEN we can get to 95, though I'm probably going to wait until FF98 if past experience is a guide.
Re:Can't blame them... (Score:0, Funny)
The cake is a lie...
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
After reading the article (a novel concept for slashdot I know), the answer to both your questions is "Yes".
Which both of his three questions?
Re:What's after Firefox 3.1? (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, just kidding. Don't take it seriously. :-)
Fuck, and I was already registering the domain names to squat...
WHAT? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)
That both.
Re:No Offence To The Devs or Firefox (Score:5, Funny)
After all, where is Windows NT v1.0 and 2.0?
See OS/2.
Re:No Offence To The Devs or Firefox (Score:5, Funny)
Okay, so where is OS/1, smart guy?
Re:No Offence To The Devs or Firefox (Score:4, Funny)
...but I apparently lost my cookies when I upgraded to FF3.
I had the opposite reaction. I admit to tossing my cookies after noticing the memory usage that FF2 was inflicting, but upgrading to FF3 wasn't in the least bit nauseating - Actually kind of pleasant.
Re:No Offence To The Devs or Firefox (Score:2, Funny)
DOS