We currently receive important updates from Firefox every 6-8 weeks, which means we have to wait about two months to enjoy the new features. The time seems even longer when the news that they introduce in a major update is not very important, but this will change in the future: there probably will not be updates more important, but they will arrive much sooner, two to four weeks sooner to be exact.
So what just announced Ritu Kothari, who has been in charge of revealing to us that they will release a major update to Mozilla's browser every four weeks. Developer teams are working to accelerate releases and their work will begin to pay off in the first quarter of 2020. On the other hand, the enterprise ESR version will remain as it is now. In the coming years, they will release an ESR version every 12 months, which will include 3 months of support that will begin to count with the arrival of a new release.
Firefox will receive a major update every 4 weeks
To maintain browser quality and avoid risk, Mozilla must:
- Make sure that Firefox engineering productivity is not adversely affected.
- Speed up the regression feedback loop from implementation to detection and resolution.
- Be able to control the deployment of functions based on the availability of the version.
- Ensure proper testing of larger features spanning multiple release cycles.
- Have clear and consistent mitigation and decision processes.
With the new update cycle, the next Mozilla browser releases would arrive like this:
As you can see, the next version to arrive will be a 70 that, among other things, will suggest strong passwords. The version that will activate by default the PiP option in Windows will arrive on December 3. Subsequently, starting with 72, the 4-week update cycle will begin and 10 versions will be released in 9 months. The news is interesting, as long as they meet their objectives and do not compromise on quality from one of the browsers most liked by Linux users.