Mozilla catapults Firefox 3.1 to 3.5
- Friday, March 13, 2009, 5:07
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Mozilla Corp has announced that it is ready to dump Version 3.1 as the main name of the next edition of Firefox. It has decided to call the new version as Version 3.5. According to the company, the name change discussion had been going around for quite some time in the company. The main reason behind the change of name has been attributed to the concerns of the developers who feared that calling the version “3.1″ will not properly reflect the number of new features and changes incorporated in the edition from Firefox 3.0 that was launched last June.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s director of Firefox, was quoted as saying “As recently proposed, the version number of the Shiretoko project will be changed to Firefox 3.5 before the upcoming fourth beta release”. “Shiretoko” is Mozilla’s code name for Firefox 3.1, which is now Firefox 3.5. Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, was quoted as saying, “The increase in scope represented by TraceMonkey and Private Browsing, plus the sheer volume of work that’s gone into everything from video and layout to Places and the plug-in service make it a larger increment than we believe is reasonable to label 1. Firefox 3.5 will help set expectations better about the amount of awesome that’s packed into Shiretoko.”
Mozilla plans to officially swap version numbers as and when it releases the fourth beta of its under-construction browser. Beta 4 is supposed to be released around April 14. This fourth beta was added to the schedule only a fortnight back when it decided to release a fix for a troublesome bug in TraceMonkey that is Mozilla’s new JavaScript engine. Interestingly, the company originally named the next edition “3.1″. But it reconsidered its plan to keep this name as there were a lot of delays in order to add more features like the TraceMonkey engine and a new privacy mode. The earlier version named Firefox 3.1 will be Beta 3 and is now slated to release this week.
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