Firefox 3.6, 3.7 & 4.0 roadmap

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September 9, 2009

 

 

Mozilla has release a roadmap for it’s future releases – see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap.

It is only a draft, and subject to change, but shows some of the exciting things that are coming up. The overview as of today is show below:

Firefox 3.6 / Fennec 1.0

mozilla-1.9.2 branch
Q3/Q4 2009
Support delivery of mobile device and Windows CE device Firefox releases as well stabilize and update Firefox quickly to improve application responsiveness.
  • platform enhancements
    • interruptible reflow
    • phase one of compositor
    • Windows 7 integration
  • end user feature enhancements
    • lightweight themes (Personas)
    • awesomeformcomplete
  • speed and responsiveness improvements
    • asynchronous location bar
    • tracemonkey engine improvements
    • improved scrolling model on Windows
    • tilecache on Maemo and Windows Mobile
    • optimized session restore to show focused tab contents quickly
    • startup optimizations

Firefox 3.7 / Fennec 1.1

mozilla-1.9.3 branch
Q1/Q2 2010
Run plugins in a separate process to improve overall application stability and responsiveness. Improve startup time
  • platform enhancements
    • out of process plugins
    • phase two of compositor
    • support for animation in XUL
  • end user feature enhancements
    • bookmark synchronization
    • run websites as an application
    • task oriented browsing
  • speed and responsiveness improvements
    • tracemonkey engine improvements
    • pageload optimizations

Firefox 4 / Fennec 2

mozilla-1.9.4 branch
Q3/Q4 2010
Process separation for chrome and content, new extensibility mechanism through APIs, revised UI on all platforms
  • platform enhancements
    • content and chrome in separate process
    • binary component versioning
    • new extensibility platform (JetPack)
  • end user feature enhancements
    • browser sync (Weave)
    • new UI on all platforms
  • speed and responsiveness improvements
  • tracemonkey engine improvements

    • Cloud Testing will update it’s cloud testing agents with the new releases as they come into Beta.

    Cloud Testing Website

    For a full list of browsers supported by the Cloud Testing functional website testing service, visit the Cloud Testing website at www.cloudtesting.com.

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