Mozilla Unveils 'Aggressive' Firefox OS Schedule: Quarterly Feature Releases

An anonymous reader writes "With Firefox OS version 1.0 out the door, Mozilla has decided that it's time to unveil its strategy for new versions. The company is planning to make feature releases available to partners every quarter and push out security updates for the previous two feature releases every six weeks. 'As far as I know, that's the most aggressive mobile OS release strategy out there,' Alex Keybl, Mozilla's Manager of Release Management, said in a statement. 'This sort of alignment across multiple browser products, and now an OS, is unprecedented at the pace we're moving.'"

what is it?

[buswolley]

Now Im a long time user of Firefox...and mostly have been happy. But I tried Chrome recently,and I admit I'm impressed....I just dont want a monoculture of browsers out there, and Firefox has had made a great (and important) contribution.

I'm interested. What is it that bothers people about Firefox? Sure Chrome loads up quicker...but my browser tends to stay open for days at a time anyway. There are a lot of great add-ons etc.. It doesn't seem slow using it generally....It doesn't FEEL as slick, but is that more of a theme UI thing, or something else?

Plus I like the idea of Firefox OS...besides saying the brand is old, they can't succeed, etc, what is it that people don't like about Firefox OS?

Re:what is it?

[Zontar The Mindless]

I'm posting this using Firefox. Running under Linux. On a an old laptop with a Celeron processor, from the Good Old Days when a CPU was a CPU and we didn't need no steenkin' "cores"! 2GB RAM, about 1.5GB of that showing as free. 1, 2, 3, ... 9, 10, 11 tabs open. No issues here.

Re:Carriers will eat Firefox OS alive.

[Enry]

It depends, at least in the US. T-Mobile is moving towards a "bring whatever device you want" approach, and Google has started directly selling their Nexus phones to consumers. I think this will start to improve once most carriers standardize on LTE-only and the phones are a bit more universal than they are now. With the Qualcomm CDMA patents out of the way, the barrier to entry to the Verizon network goes away and their phones will drop in price and more vendors will want to sell for the Verizon market.

Churn for the sake of churn

[msobkow]

Churn for the sake of churn is the most asinine strategy I've ever heard of. Look at how slow vendors are to actually release updates for Android for their devices. Mozilla is shooting themselves in the foot if they think their hardware partners for Firefox OS want to see point updates anywhere near as often as they're proposing. They want something tested and stable that they can ship, not an always-in-development "product."