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Is Firefox Released Too Often?

A few weeks ago there was a lot of talk surrounding Mozilla's decision to shorten the Firefox release schedule to five weeks or so. Some pundits commented that was too often for comfort and some enterprise / business customers were seriously alarmed. Well, for the latter Mozilla has proposed extended support releases. Well, I wondered how normal users felt - so I asked.

In a poll on Tuxmachines.org I asked visitors about the Firefox release schedule. Given a choice of five responses users confirmed what many already suspected. Firefox is being released too often to keep up with.

The Results

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by an anonymous user on Oct. 30, 2011

I couldn't answer the question, because none of them really apply to what I think.

I'd like to see Firefox setup a system like Debian, where there's a stodgy, rock stable release that would be good for business, or conservative users, a testing branch where things get solidified for stable, and an unstable branch where new ideas get tried, and tweaked.

Only stable would get a version number, and that number would make some kind of internal sense; hopefully based on features included. The other two would be code named(Aurora, and Nightly work fine), and people could use them if they wanted the newest features.

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