On Q2 of this year all focus was to adapt to the new fast release cadence.” “By Q3 we started having problems with OPSI (a system to deploy changes to our machines) and all efforts started little by little shifting towards supporting developers to ship Firefox 4. “I started working on this project last year on Q2 and by May 2010 I had some proof of concept going on,” Zambrano said. Firefox 5 has already been finalized and of course there’s no trace of a 圆4 flavor. It’s useless to say that all plans for a 64-bit Firefox 5 were abandoned. Some Softpedia readers might remember that Mozilla was planning a 64-bit version of Firefox 5 for Windows back when Firefox 4 was still in development, and when Firefox 5, Firefox 6 and Firefox 7 weren’t all planned for 2011.Ī much simpler time in fact, when the open source browser vendor hadn’t overhauled its development process and release pace cadence to match Google Chrome’s. It cannot be stressed enough that the nightly Builds of Firefox 8, including the 64-bit variant, are only designed for testing by early adopters, and not to run into production or for every day usage by end users. Releasing depends on evaluating what the problems are on the product side before we would release it.” “I will leave out any talking about when this could be released to our users and just focus on explaining where the project has been and where we are now from a Release Engineering point of view. NOTE: This is not a released version but a testing version,” he said. “We now have a small set of Windows 2008 64-bit slaves ready to be put in our production systems that can generate the 64-bit version of Mozilla Firefox.
There’s also a 64-bit version of Firefox 8 on the Nightly Channel that can be downloaded from the company’s FTP servers.Īrmen Zambrano, Release Engineer for Mozilla, is hard at work on 圆4 Firefox 8: Well, it appears like that was just part of the story. I told you earlier this month that Mozilla had made available the first taste of Firefox 8 via its Nightly Channel.
A very early development milestone of Firefox 8 proves that Mozilla continues to keep alive its plans to provide a native 圆4 version of its opens source browser for 64-bit flavors of Windows, including Windows 7.
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