Firefox updates too often.

I wonder what you guys play at, why the need to update so often?
It's crazy. only 11 months ago, we were in version 3, we are now in version 7?
What is going on? the software is not so different to justify a major version update.
I am simply expressing my shock here how you have changed it, but a more serious problem. Here is the Add - ons. It seems to me that by doing a major version, you make it very difficult for managers of the add-on. I noticed that it becomes less useful add-ons for firefox and the good are get abandoned because they can't follow.
don't you think you should slow down a notch?
of course, I think that the development continues at a normal pace, but see if you can find a way to impliment updates important safety without messing up all the codes of the add-on? and without a major version update!
We went from 6 to 7, and what has changed in terms of features? Honestly, I don't know because I haven't seen any real difference.

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Sorry, that you're frustrated with the new quick release schedule, many of us have similar feelings. The main part of the new annex is that releases are determined by now, vs the old feature-driven release date releases. If a feature is ready for release, it is included in a new version; If a feature requires more time to 'seep', it is deferred until he is ready - not more to postpone a date of release because some features need more development time.

New features less and less changes by release version than in the past, with more frequent releases.

A page like this should appear for each new version, after its installation. It's just a matter of reading on 'What's new in Firefox' to see which alter the new version http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/Firefox/7.0/ReleaseNotes/ .

Regarding the module developers and the calendar of the week 6 for arrivals, the modules that are hosted here - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ - aka AMO - are made automatically compatible with each new version of Firefox, as long as they pass a compatibility check process and "testers" mark as 'compatible' with the extension Add - 0n Compatibility Reporter. Don't need a developer to do something if their extension was created successfully at first and meet the current standard for safety. 95% of the most popular modules are automatically 'moved '. In addition, with a week 6 Beta test period developers are assured that they will not have to redo all the patches, they may need to make their modules due to last minute changes in the Beta version, as happened in the past because of new features that have been modified at the "last minute" to try to put the release date.

Night, Aurora and Firefox Beta testers are a large part of the "compatibility test" for modules that are hosted on AMO, so developers have less work to do if their add-on doesn't have all the patches and "testers" can point out specific problems to make it easier to find out what is a problem and help maybe the developer working on a "fix."

What about self-hosted modules, it is a problem for add-on developers to understand to s. They need to rethink the gites accommodation vs using AMO to the distribution of their modules, or they need to find a different line of activity if they are unable to follow the program of quick release.

IMO, Norton with their Firefox extensions (such as anti-phishing and secure password storage) for Firefox 3.0, 3.5, 3.6 and 4.o, were real slugs when it came to the new versions of Firefox, but from Firefox 6.0 and 7.0, they had their extensions updates update available to their customers in a few hours of shooting on the servers to upgrade to new versions of Mozilla's Firefox. I hate Norton for all the problems of their software caused for me over the past 25 years, but I must congratulate you on 'strengthening their game' with the new quick release schedule and responding to the needs of their Firefox using customers by providing a ' just in time ' updates. But they still need to work on their mode of delivery of these updates in a more automated method, other than the users who need to download and install a "patch" or manually run a live update.

That all said, probably with Firefox 10 early next year, there will be a major change with the treatment of perceived the add-on compatibility Firefox. Currently the add-on must meet or exceed the version number of Firefox that is coded inside the add-on or the server of the AMO for the particular module, or the add-on is disabled automatically while the new version of Firefox is installed. The new way of handling it assumes that all modules are compatible - period. For not to sound too negative, but if (or when) a user has a problem because of incompatible code in one or more modules, it will fall on the shoulders of the user to understand what is causing their problem. I've seen too darn modules badly coded this last 9 years of use of this browser, causing all sorts of problems for me to think otherwise.

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