wiki.mozilla.org— Mozilla corp. has set a final release date for their public release of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 for next Tuesday!
Mar 19, 2006View in Crawl 4
Release Issues & Timing* patch to change rv to 2.0a1 and branding to Bon Echo still pending (waiting on change to graphics) o action: beltzner to either delegate or complete by Wednesday EOD * Code Freeze planned for Thursday March 16 11:59PM o Release to Follow next Tuesday for Alpha1 o Primary goal of release is testing for places backend o There will be no 1.5->2.0 updates for this release * Still need to enable nightly updates
Some people don't like Opera. Some people don't like Firefox. The difference on Digg is that not liking Firefox makes you an idiot, not liking Opera makes you a person who likes browsers that don't break websites. At least not as badly.
Fair enough it’s an open source product and the whole development process is open to the public, im not arguing that. Im just saying the term "public alpha" is stupid it’s not like there are any private alphas. AlsoAn alpha release in a traditional sense is the "first version of a computer program that the development team decides is feature complete and ready for testing" (<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage)</a> but of course i do acknowledge it can also be a not complete release.
It's true what most people don't realise that Alpha 1 does not have many new features implimented yet, it's mainly bug fixes and back end prep for the new features. The interface hasn't been redesigned, built in session saver isn't there, and so on.
places will get me to switch to opera if they don't bring back the option to use normal bookmarks and history. I find myself going back to the February builds before they turned places (and cairo) on... keep it simple, keep it sweet.
curtissthompsonMar 19, 2006Submitter
Release Issues & Timing* patch to change rv to 2.0a1 and branding to Bon Echo still pending (waiting on change to graphics) o action: beltzner to either delegate or complete by Wednesday EOD * Code Freeze planned for Thursday March 16 11:59PM o Release to Follow next Tuesday for Alpha1 o Primary goal of release is testing for places backend o There will be no 1.5->2.0 updates for this release * Still need to enable nightly updates
sarothMar 19, 2006
On an open-source project, it isn't.
misosMar 19, 2006
Exactly what I was thinking.We'll see.
cdmarcusMar 19, 2006
Some people don't like Opera. Some people don't like Firefox. The difference on Digg is that not liking Firefox makes you an idiot, not liking Opera makes you a person who likes browsers that don't break websites. At least not as badly.
o_sam_oMar 19, 2006
Fair enough it’s an open source product and the whole development process is open to the public, im not arguing that. Im just saying the term "public alpha" is stupid it’s not like there are any private alphas. AlsoAn alpha release in a traditional sense is the "first version of a computer program that the development team decides is feature complete and ready for testing" (<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage)</a> but of course i do acknowledge it can also be a not complete release.
lkbmMar 19, 2006
Regarding memory leaks, they have been working on that a fair bit. See the metabug <a class="user" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320915">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320915</a> for example.
jinexileMar 19, 2006
It's true what most people don't realise that Alpha 1 does not have many new features implimented yet, it's mainly bug fixes and back end prep for the new features. The interface hasn't been redesigned, built in session saver isn't there, and so on.
dissidentMar 20, 2006
places will get me to switch to opera if they don't bring back the option to use normal bookmarks and history. I find myself going back to the February builds before they turned places (and cairo) on... keep it simple, keep it sweet.
thezeppelin62Mar 21, 2006
is it just me or did they say tuesday? And uhm its Tuesday. so basicly this story is bogus.