Early Thoughts On Firefox 3.0

By Author: Miachel Tang
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Firefox 3.0 release date targeted at Bug list broken down into two sections: Those with high complexity/risk and localization impact, and those with less risk and no/low localization impact. Bugs in the former category targeted to be fixed by 2004-09-20 for Firefox 1.0 RC1.

There is a new bugzilla nomination flag - blocking-aviary1.0RC1. We are now going to be fairly tight fisted about approvals here since we prefer to hit our target dates than become sidetracked. We would like to keep the bug list as similar in length to or shorter than what it is now. Basically we are trying to maintain feasibility. This may mean that your pet bug may be minused. This is an unfortunate consequence of project management, but if you can produce a patch and make a case for your fix, it may be allowed in.

Also note that a class of fixes may be approved for RC1 but not for RC2, etc - we want to have a localization freeze at some point between RC1 and RC2 so are targeting RC1 as preliminary localization freeze, also we may be willing to take some bugs now, further from the 1.0 date that are riskier, but we may be less interested in ...
... taking them closer to the release date.

I suspect that the setup is so that the DLLs are preloaded when Windows starts up. It appears that this builder is using custom CRT DLLs optimized for specific platforms which is pretty slick. I did this on some of my older builds using inline code but it resulted in maintenance issues so I dropped it. But the approach of doing it in DLLs is very, very nice. I don�t have time to try the build out right now (and they probably wouldn�t run on my Mac anyways) but some BenchJS comparisons with the usual builders might be interesting on the 1.0.7 builds given that not everyone does trunk builds.

I have found a very interesting survey on SpreadFirefox which aims why are the people currently switching to Mozilla Firefox. The survey aims to know what is important for the users in Mozilla Firefox, thus helping Mozilla to build a more user oriented browser in the future.

Different people use Firefox for different reasons. Me myself, I use Firefox because it is more secure, has useful extensions and because I want to support the open-source community. On the other hand, am sure that there are people who are influenced by Microsoft�s monopoly and generally dislike it.

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Michael is the developer of BlueFoxFire, features many articles telling user how they can help improve their web browsing experience. http://www.bluefoxfire.com More articles are available at help(at)bluefoxfire.com .