Mozilla Releases Firefox 5.0 Just Months After 4.0

Remember Mozilla’s glacial product release schedule, it’s inability to hit even a single milestone, and it’s increasing irrelevance in the browser market? Well, the company is out to change all that, and today it released Firefox 5.0, the next major version of its flagship web browser. Why is this notable? Because Mozilla delivered Firefox 4.0 only three months ago and that product took a whopping THREE YEARS to come to market. (And they’re not done with this crazy schedule: Firefox 6.0 will hit

Paul Thurrott

June 21, 2011

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Remember Mozilla’s glacial product release schedule, it’s inability to hit even a single milestone, and it’s increasing irrelevance in the browser market? Well, the company is out to change all that, and today it released Firefox 5.0, the next major version of its flagship web browser. Why is this notable? Because Mozilla delivered Firefox 4.0 only three months ago and that product took a whopping THREE YEARS to come to market. (And they’re not done with this crazy schedule: Firefox 6.0 will hit by the end of the summer, and Firefox 7.0 is scheduled for the fall. Yikes!

 

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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