Mozilla drops Firefox 3.7, switches to “Feature Updates”

Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner has said that after Firefox 3.6, there will be no Firefox 3.7. Instead regular “feature updates” will be pushed to users. The plan to change how updates to Firefox are managed was disclosed in an interview with Computerworld. The original plan was to have a Firefox 3.6 release early in 2010, and a Firefox 3.7 release mid-summer, but Beltzner, director of Firefox development, now says that the experience of developing Firefox 3.6 taught the developers what slowed down their schedules. Based on this, there will be the imminent release of Firefox 3.6, followed by “minor updates” which will be pushed to users as part of the 4-6 week cycle of security updates.

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