If it meets that schedule, Mozilla could crank out Firefox 6 just two months later.
Firefox 4, for example, was in development for over a year, while Firefox 3.6 took about the same amount of time to finish.
Google uses a similar process to continually feed features to Chrome (Dell inspiron 1501 batteries), relying on a four-channel line of development: nightly, dev, beta and stable.
According to information posted on Mozilla's site , its new, faster development will match Google's.
Mozilla is currently planning a truncated schedule for Firefox 5, which should ship June 21. To meet that deadline, Firefox 5 has to hit the "aurora" channel April 12 and reach beta by May 17.
With Firefox 5 done, Mozilla will shift to a standard 18-week schedule that will put Firefox 6's release around mid-August.
To meet those dates, Mozilla will add features to Firefox as it goes.
Mozilla will apparently also stop shipping interim security updates as of Firefox 5, and instead patch vulnerabilities as fixes are crafted, with the final Firefox build given priority.
The only exception will be emergency security updates, which Mozilla calls "chemspills." Ideally, Mozilla's new plan will update the beta channel every week, the nightly and aurora channels every day, and the Firefox build every six weeks.
Mozilla has worked on silent updating on and off for months. Originally slated to ship with Firefox 4 , the feature was pulled from that version last fall.
Al Hilwa, an analyst with IDC, has praised Mozilla's more frequent release plans for Firefox, which he saw as a reaction to Chrome's rapid schedule.
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