Mozilla Expects to Ship Firefox 4.0 in Late 2010
Mozilla Expects to Ship Firefox 4.0 in Late 2010
Posted 09/07/2009 at 3:52pm
| by Paul Lilly
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The latest round of browser releases put a heavy focus on JavaScript performance, so what does the next round have in store? Only time will tell, but come late 2010, Firefox 4.0 will hit the streets if everything goes to plan.
According to Mozilla's recently released roadmap, Firefox 4.0 will first show up in beta form around June of next year, with a final release planned for October or November. The usual round of speed and responsiveness tweaks will be part of the next-gen browser, in addition to a new extensibility platform Mozilla is calling 'JetPack.' But the biggest change might be the Chrome-like handling of tabs, where each tab functions as its own separate process.
Between now and then, Mozilla plans to release Firefox 3.6 before the end of 2009 (you can already snag the Alpha 1 build here), which will feature Windows 7 integration, lightweight themes, asynchronous location bar, improved scrolling model on Windows, startup optimizations, and more. Then in early 2010, Firefox 3.7 will bring out-of-process plugins to the table, as well as book synchronization, task oriented browsing, the ability to run websites as an application, and other improvements.
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burntjuggalas
September 08, 2009 at 6:21am
What about 64-Bit support ;_; I WANT 64-BIT >_< n i dont want to have to go to shiroko(or however you spell it)
DBsantos77
September 07, 2009 at 7:45pm
Is it me or is Mozilla completely oblivious to the flaws in 3.5? They should fix the crap in 3.5 before even thinking about future releases.
minimumBS
September 08, 2009 at 6:18pm
And if you remain very still, and stay very very quiet, you can hear the sound of Mozilla ignoring Chrome. I used to love Firefox for the security and for the myriad extensions. Then after several updates, I think I lost about half my extensions and others I have to update every now and then. Yes, Mozilla will upgrade without issue on some, but others, if the extension is not ready to upgrade right away, then when the extension does upgrade, some extension makers are less careful than others about looking for your prior settings... meaning for some, you have to go in and reconfigure things. Then I started using Chrome at work as my primary browser on my secondary machine, just to get a feel for it, not really expecting much out of it. It was so much faster, and I never once have had to fiddle with upgrading or extensions, it just does it magically in the background. No, it doesn't have some of the functionality of some of my old Firefox extensions, but it also has none of the headache. Now it's my default browser on all my machines at work and at home. Sometimes, usually when doing web development and checking compatibility of a page vs. IE and Firefox, I'll still go back to one of those old dogs. And. It. Is. So. So. So. Very. Very. Sloooooow. Oh, oh, it moves fast for a second and then. Slow. Ly. It tells me that there are new versions of 12 of my extensions and I can upgrade Firefox if I want. Click Next. Slow. Ly. Slow. Ly. Oh, it has updated seven of them. It didn't find updates for 5 of them. Would I like to restart Firefox now? NO! I JUST WANT TO GET TO THE PAGE I WAS GOING TO BEFORE I WAS STUPID ENOUGH TO CLICK THAT WORLD-CUDDLING FOX LOGO. Maybe it wouldn't be such a chore to run Firefox if I ran it regularly and my updates happened naturally instead of piling up like a bunch of dirty dishes that someone's soon-to-be-ex-roommate always leaves around. But then I'd have to use Firefox everyday. And why would I want to do that?
WFUJay
September 07, 2009 at 10:29pm
Why don't you enlighten on these flaws you speak of instead of just claiming they exist. I've had zero problems or crashes since I've upgraded to 3.5.
1337Goose
September 08, 2009 at 7:27am
Firefox 3.5 crashes profusely on Linux and Windows for me. And to make matters worse, it doesn't segregate the tabs in separate processes like chrome, so when it crashes, it pretty much just completely dies.
~Goose
quantumnerd
September 07, 2009 at 8:19pm
Isn't that like saying "They should fix it before they even think about fixing it"?
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