Why are there so many versions of Firefox in the last 6 months?

Firefox 9.0 publication December 2011
10.0 Firefox released January 2012
Firefox 11.0 released March 2012
Firefox 12.0 released April 2012
Firefox 13.0 released June 2012

Where are the notes? I see some of the differences between the versions, but the speed at which they are distributed has me suspicious.

Mozilla is passed to a cycle of "Quick release" with the release of Firefox 4 and 5. This means that every 6 months, a new version of Firefox comes in the pipeline. https://wiki.Mozilla.org/RapidRelease http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2011/08/25/rapid-release-process/.

Basically, what that means in practice for users is every 6 weeks, bug fixes, new features, improvements, etc. that are ready for Firefox are released. If a feature is not ready, it is held until the next version. Instead of having to wait a year or more between updates (such as 3.6 to 4.0) containing new web technologies, performance enhancements, etc. New features are ready for users much more quickly.

If you wish to view the release notes, you can go to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/, click the Desktop tab (because it most likely will be showing the mobile tab right now). Then click on "What's New". This will take you to a page like http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0.1/releasenotes/

Tags: Firefox

Similar Questions

  • I had a serious accident by using Muse, said the notice of accident, as well as the demand for documenting my recent movements, "whoa - why are there so many reminders? The only way out is a Force Quit. I'm on a mac

    I had a serious accident by using Muse, said the notice of accident, as well as the demand for documenting my recent movements, "whoa - why are there so many reminders? The only way out is a Force Quit. I'm on a mac

    Hello

    Could you please check the thread below and see if this is the case with you

    Re: MUSE CRASH

  • Why are there not file prefetch for Thunderbird in the \Windows\Prefetch folder?

    Why are there not file prefetch for Thunderbird in the Windows XP SP3 \Windows\Prefetch folder? I use Thunderbird 38.3.0.

    I deleted all the files in the \Windows\Prefetch folder and noticed that no files have been created it there for new programs began. I restarted the Task Scheduler service and the problem was solved.

  • Why are there so many instances of mdworker running on El Capitan

    Why OSX trigger so many instances of mdworker.  Now I'm under Mail, Chrome and a running activity monitor an iMac 27 "with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB.  There are 16 cases of mdworker running.

    I turned off Spotlight search results for everything and they always keep their appearance.

    Have you looked at the Spotlight Suggestions & confidentiality?

    In Snow Leopard, I put all my folders in a private space as well as Caches of my library - which seems to help - as I have never used that much - and only realized it was indexing after my system stuck.

    Seems they worked to worsen a bad idea.

  • On facebookk in FF, why are there so many buttons that simply will not do anything?

    No error message is displayed. And there are no problems when you use IE.

    This seems odd. Facebook is the only site that I'm having a problem when using Firefox. Here is an example of what does not work.

    I click on the facebook button '+ 1 Add a friend' and nothing happens

    But if I do the same when in Internet Explorer, the box turns into a box that says: 'friend a request sent' (or something close to that.)

    Another example is cat-clicking will bring up a list of people online in Internet Explorer, and I can start a conversation.

    In FF, nothing happens at all. I don't not even a glow of my screen.

    Follow the instructions on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/934784 help me at all?

  • Why are there so many duplicates in my music folder?

    I went in my iTunes Media/Music folder to find a song corrupt and noticed that most of my music has been duplicated once or several times.  There is the original song and the other with a '1' or '2' some time after the title.  That's happened?  I guess that I should not worry but I have only approximately 3,500 songs in iTunes, but there are now more than 10,000 files in this folder and duplicates are taking up more than 50 GB.  What can I do about it without screwing up iTunes and how do I keep it doesn't happen?  Thank you.

    One possible approach is to use the file > add folder to library to add the iTunes Media folder, and then everything that is currently in the press kit and is not already connected to the library will be added to it. You can then deduplication.

    iTunes can create duplicates if the same content is added several times from outside the media folder when it is about to make copies of everything that is added to the library, or is added from an external drive that hosts the press kit that was disconnected during the launch of iTunes.

    Official notice of Apple on the duplicates is here: find and remove duplicates in your iTunes library. This is a manual process and article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as the lost coast and membership of playlist, or sometimes the same file can be represented by multiple entries in the library as well as a removal and recycling the file will break all the others.

    Use MAJ > view > show items to reproduce exactly to display the duplicates because it is normally a selection more useful. You must manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sort the list by Date added can make easier select appropriate tracks, but it works better when executed immediately after the dupes were created.  If you have several entries in iTunes connected to a same file on the disk hard then don't not send to trash.

    Use my DeDuper script (Windows only) If you are not sure, do not want to do it by hand, or want to maintain ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this background thread , this post for detailed instructions and Please take note of the warning to back up your library before deduping.

    (If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to temporarily view or CTRL + B to keep displayed.)

    The latest version of the script can put away the dead links as long as there is at least a double live to merge his stats and membership of the playlist and must deal wisely when the same file has been added through multiple paths.

    TT2

  • Why are there so many errors when opening a fresh dreamweaver bootstrap?

    In dreamweaver, why do so many errors on my jquery.js and bootstrap.js codes when I barely opened freshly model?

    Consider that errors are marked in the js code?

    If this is the case it is generated by the built-in linter as the audit of this program, the file of errors according to the idea of someone else what is code of "good".

    Personally I disable Linting in Preferences, because its use is for me useless, (sorry for the pun).

  • Why are there too many vmdk files?

    I use vmware workstation 8 to end of software testing. Both the guest and the host Windows 7 64 bit.

    I have 12 shots with the guest. I found that there are 283 files vmdk, which takes about 420 GB of disk space.

    Now, I deleted all of the snapshots, but there are still 259 files vmdk, who take 395 GB of disk space.

    As I deleted all of the snapshots, now the guest is just a pure installs Windows 7. It should take no more than 10 GB.
    Any suggestion?

    Thank you.

    Wow! The directory listing shows 281 snapshots that dose of course not jive with the dictionary of snapshot (file .vmsd) If you have a mess on your hands.

    Not completely sure that you are the ultimate goal here is however I suggest creating a new virtual hard disk using vmware-vdiskmanager pointing towards "w7 64 - 000281.vmdk" as source and then swap out.

    Also the list of directories being incomplete, it displays only the hard files, I can't you what else to clean the other then delete the file .vmsd if you choose to consolidate snapshots of the "w7 64.vmdk" file using vmware-vdiskmanager.

    Note: DON'T do anything without having a full and correct virtual machine backup before you continue!

  • If you have a valid Windows Vista license, why are there not support which includes downloads of the files we can need to overwrite your file should are corrupted due to a virus or malware?

    I am an unlucky recipient of a laptop with Windows Vista. It came preloaded with Vista... no backup disks or manuals, etc. The restore feature was not turned on, so a restore point has not been set. My WMP will not play wmv or any wmp files. I also have problems with my automatic updates in Windows. I have 10 updates that were not successful, but there are probably pages of the attempts of many times where the updates failed. My Trend Micro Titanium Internet tells me I have a problem in my directory root, which is probably due to an update of Windows that was supposed to protect me from a weakness in Vista, but again once with my updates failed to download successfully, its possible the fix I need is still sitting there... I think it's a shame that MicroSoft is allowed to 'SELL' a product without disk... just a license # and NO manuals. AND not a lot of support for your money... or the other. I spent hours and hours trying to fix myself... using all the resources I can find... look like a dummy, I'm sure, but if I had the software I probably would have deleted from my hard drive and more. It would certainly have saved me MONTHS of frustration. Trend Micro and real human support downloaded the plus version of their software for me and recent, plus a few extras to eradicate certain other pests. To get a human being to help you at MicroSoft? It will be $60, please... Sorry, if I look a little tired, but you guys are supposed to be the best and I feel fuzzy. I have been in sales for a long time. long time AND sold the BEST AMERICAN made cars... CADILLACS, but you know if I take care of my clients after the sale... they would have felt like I do, today... disappointed. If every time they came into the dealership I have loaded the $$ to take care of them, they don't come back to me when the NEW models came out... I made sure they got their cars back washed... and they sent their friends to buy from me. And ILS never thought to buy from anyone else, actually when I left the company, I had a nice little legacy of clients in order to let my protégé.

    Thanks (again) Darin - especially for such a detailed response.

    Looks like you're in the clear, Phyllis :)

  • Why are there "No content found" even after updating the Guide on WMC. I also note that, on the main page of ITV, none of the links are clickable. What gives?

    I removed and re-installed Internet TV for my Home Premium from windows system 7 several times, using an account administrator as well as a standard user account. I find that the ITV homepage is NOT clickable; the links don't point out even when I hover over them (top tv, full episodes, etc.). I also click on an icon of TMZ in alternation, which, once clicked active active search at the top right of the screen button, but when I opt for the Internet TV within the open window radio button I've always found "no content found. Does anyone have an idea here? Confused in Maryland.

    Microsoft has removed Internet TV in Windows Media Center effective 9/20.
     
     
    Barb
     
    MVP - Windows/entertainment and connected home
     
     
    Please mark as answer if that answers your question
     
     
     
     
  • Can I go back to the previous version of Firefox, before the last update?

    Firefox is automatically promoted to the 34.0.5 do not know what I had before, but I want to go back to what version came before that. I hate what spent my field of research. The only reason why I didn't completely Chrome switchd was the facility to change to a different search option. I could just click the dropdown in the search box and click the seardh option I wanted. Now, a new window opens where I have to click another menu dropdown to access my search options. It sucks! I want to go back to the previous version but don't know if it's possible. Any help would be great!

    You can return to the range of older search like this bar.

    Open Subject: config (typed in the address bar)
    Do a right click and toggle this false preference

    browser.search.showOneOffButtons

    Then restart Firefox.

  • What is the difference between vmware.log vmware - 1.log, vmware - 2.log... Why are there different logs created

    Experts of HI, need some advice what is the difference between vmware.log vmware - 1.log, vmware - 2.log... Why are there different logs created. I understand the vmware.log is to check when the VM not suite or something, but not sure the rest feed files. Thank you

    Log files are rotated once a virtual computer is turned on or when the file reaches a certain size. The vmware.log (without number) is the current log file. By default, the old files are kept for purposes of troubleshooting. You can - even if I do not - recommend disable this behavior, or even configure the virtual machine to do not create the log files at all.

    André

    PS: I forgot to attach the KB article: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/8182749

  • 2 versions of firefox and the maintenance service are listed in "Uninstall or change a program" after update

    I have updated to firefox from 15.0 to 15.0.1 using the dialogbox "About Firefox". under "Uninstall or change a program" in windows 7 x 64 I have now the two versions of firefox 15.0 and 15.0.1 registered as being installed.

    also, I had previously disabled the option "Use a background service to install updates" and uninstalled "Mozilla Maintenance Service". now the option of background service use has been reactivated and the "Service Maintenance of Mozilla's ' has been reinstalled. I really like how mozilla has zero respect for the fact that I don't want some unnecessary services installed on my computer, just so that I don't have to click on a UAC prompt once per month.

    I'll probably just uninstall the both firefox and the maintenance server and reinstall firefox. both versions are supposed to be there or is this a bug? and why reinstalled substantive service and the option is enabled when specifically, I uninstalled and disabled before?

    Edit: I just checked my other computers. 1 windows 7 x 64 with the maintenance service installed and the other xp with the maintenance Server uninstalled or disabled. two computers only list 15.0.1 as being installed and the maintenance department was not reinstalled on my xp computer.

    Just to let you know, the maintenance service is not running on your computer at all up to and update must be installed. It does not all resources and is perfectly fine to stay on your computer.

    As for the problem with two versions of Firefox, uninstall the other oldest (make sure not to remove your personal data) and see if the new version works.

  • I have Windows 7 and I was wondering if there was a version of Firefox called "Nightly"? The type of a Nightly.Ink file. In addition, every time I open 'Nightly' now I have g

    I have Windows 7 and I was wondering if there was a version of Firefox called "Nightly"? The type of a Nightly.Ink file. Also, whenever I open 'Nightly' now, I get a popup of the program update and it says "update.exe". Is this a part of Firefox "Nightly" or is this a virus? Please answer this so I can relax. My email is [email protected]

    Every night (a1) and (a2) Aurora built updated every day, so if you use such a developer version you will see an update every day (sometimes more than once a day in the case of a respin). These alpha versions are more intended to be experienced testers, because you may experience stability and regression of the questions at any time. The beta version (currently Firefox 25) can be useful for testing Web sites to see if they're going to get broken in the next Firefox release and file a bug report, if necessary.

    Note that you must always install such version of development alongside a stable version and use a separate profile for each version folder.

  • Why are there no set upward for IPad etc.?

    Why are there no set upward for IPad etc.?

    Firefox Home for iPhone also explains the situation. Unfortunately, Apple will allow Firefox on iOS, so we cannot release him.

Maybe you are looking for