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Archive for June 2009
Mozilla’s Firefox seems to hold a place dear in web designers’ and developers’ hearts as a bastion of open sourceness; to be honest, I’m not the most well versed in these matters so I don’t know if there are better open source browser options that have more street cred than Firefox — I’m sure there is some browser in beta called Cucumber (or whatever) that is more hardcore. But I digress. Point is that with Firefox there are no secrets, no here-is-the-latest-thing-and-you-will-like-it, it’s all about involving others. And their process to upgrade their huggable, foxy icon to coincide with the release of Firefox 3.5 was no different. Perhaps to an excruciating degree.
In reality, I doubt there’s much separation between Mozilla, the corporation, and Mozilla, the foundation, but there is a world of difference between how Mozilla presents itself to the open-source development community and the most community-friendly of open-source companies, like Red Hat. Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, and money always seems to take second place to community with Mozilla.
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Mozilla has delayed the delivery of Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate (RC) until late next week to take care of several last-minute bugs, a company executive said today.
Beltzner attributed the bug finds to a “newfound rigor” in testing, as well as a larger number of users hammering on the RC code. “[All this] makes it easier for us to spot potential problems with a milestone much earlier than ever before,” he said. Mozilla is now hoping to post Firefox 3.5 RC for download late next week, in the June 10-12 time frame.
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