November 9, 2009

Mozilla Project Weekly Status: November 9, 2009

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Total compatibility up to 45% with 3.6.* (up from 34% last week) Hard work on the update queue has reduced it from 201 on 11/1 to 129 today. Wait time is now down to roughly one week and we hope to get it under a week soon We’re going to focus on nomination queue with goal of getting both down to manageable levels FIREFOX Firefox 3.5.5 short-cycle release shipped on Thursday! Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6 patches still need to land (7 for 3.5.6, 4 for 3.0.16) still lots of blockers needing patches (14 for 3.5.6, 5 for…

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On this day in 2004…

On November 9, 2004 Firefox 1.0 was released. “After a halt of 5 years , innovation became again part of the game and it hasn’t stopped since then bringing on millions of users, locales, communities, and equally importantly, competitors: Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera are all in the game of exploding the web again, and maybe not breaking it this time.” Edit: Mitchel Baker’s memories of this day back in 2004. Source:Mozilal Links

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