Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The joy of competition

Some not so good news on the browser front. Firefox 3.6 has been delayed until the first quarter 2010 which will push back 4,o to the end of the year or 2011. The good news is this is being done to assure they do it right.
Schedule delays are common in the software world, but browser development is furious these days with the arrival of Google's Chrome into the market, Apple helping to expand the frontiers of what the browser can do, Opera trying to dramatically speed up JavaScript execution and display performance, and Microsoft getting more ambitious again with Internet Explorer.

"We've always been more quality-driven than time-driven, but we understand timing in the market matters to our users and our competitiveness," said Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, in an October interview.
Looking forward to the new features promised, but right now I am driving Opera 10.10 because I got tired of all the crashes in 3.5.

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