Mozilla Firefox 4 will be our last big release
But chrome also updates automatically, without asking for user permission. Regardless of you think of that policy, it avoids platform fragmentation. Firefox seems to be headed to a big fragmentation. Can't say that's good news for web designer and frontend developers.
Nice. Google proved you could do the streaming release model, Firefox has seen the light.
This moves the web forward much faster than the 'big bang' style IE releases (sadly they're the ones who need this the most).
Now the question of distros remains. What will ubuntu do? Since they want a distribution that is frozen in time, will they allow updates at all, or create ubuntu-volatile repos, or ...?
Also, what will happen with addons? How can developers track API changes and provide updates in time?
I don't like that title.
Had me thinking Firefox was preparing to shrivel down under Chrome. I became really, really sad for a minute.
For the last few months I've used Chrome because of it's speed and elegant interface. But I really prefer Mozilla and it's open source approach.
While Google isn't that bad, I feel like I'm doing the evil thing for personal satisfaction. Like I'm slowly entering the dark side.
Lets see if Mozilla can keep up the pace and lets see if they can push those updates unintrusive enough to keep users from leaving.
I hope they do change their general approach and not just the update mechanism. I have been using chrome for a couple of months now and just switched back to firefox to see what the evolution is during my time 'away'.
It's quite a mess, from my point of view... As a webdeveloper the browser is my toolbox and while I do find firebug superior to the chrome development tools, the other things that caught my attention where not so positive... It feels sluggisch, was using 1.3gig of memory with 6tabs open and crashes frequently. But I do admit it feels like coming home a bit so I'm sticking with it and hoping things will be better in the future. I just hope this will end well for firefox.
If not they can always start developing another lean and fast new browser that will rock our worlds and gain populairy fast and change names a few times... (anyone remember phoenix and firebird?)