Mozilla announces Extended Support Release schedule for Firefox

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14 points·MPSimmons··6 comments

This article lacks a lot of detail. Mozilla's proposal, as usual, is publicly available. See the link.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:...

Sorry. I was literally sitting in the BoF typing while Kev was talking. I've updated the article with the link to the proposal. Thanks!

Firefox 3.6 has fallen over 1% in the past 30 days to under 5%. It will fall below IE7 in the next 30 days. In a few months, [with the adoption of FF 10 ES] 3.6 will be ancient history.

[Update] Added some text to make my point explicit.

That has no relevance to the article at all. They're announcing that Firefox 10, when released, will have extended support.

Also, Firefox 3.6 was released about 2 years ago. The extended support period for Firefox 10 will only be "about a year". That sounds reasonable given the market share decline rate of 3.6 you quoted.

Huh? I was connecting the dots. Most corporations won't leave Firefox 3.6 because of the rapid release cycle of Firefox. The extended support is for these companies. Regular consumers will be happy with the silent update every six weeks. If most corporations buy into the new ES version then 3.6 will be practically gone in a matter of months. This is important because FF 10+ is a vast improvement over 3.6, and soon developers will be able to assume FF 10+.

Ah, that makes more sense. It was very difficult to infer that meaning from your original post. My apologies.

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