Last month Mozilla Released a much awaited browser called Firefox 4. According to an update at the Mozilla releases page, Firefox 5 looks like it’s headed for a release on June 21, less than two months away. We haven’t heard much about the new features of Firefox 5 but Mozilla confirmed that now they will release major versions of the browser more quickly than ever.
Mozilla is taking the same approach that Google is taking with Chrome; faster updates, more releases, and no waiting to bundle major features together into a bigger update that takes longer to assemble. It’s no surprised that they want to make sure the next version of Firefox is right on the heels of the release of Firefox 4.
To contrast, Google steadily and regularly releases updates for Chrome, silently downloading them and installing them in the background when a user closes and then re-opens the app. To date, each major revision of Firefox has been lauded with a laundry list of features and highlighted release dates. Mozilla developers are hoping to keep up with its browser competitors by slipstreaming bug fixes and minor updates more regularly, and introduce major updates as they’re available instead of waiting.
Mozilla has confirmed that they will release 4 major versions of Firefox in 2011. They have already released Firefox 4 one major version. Next will be released on June 21st.
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