Mozilla offers to change the browser exit schedule

As you know, the Mozilla Foundation releases new versions of its Firefox browser every six weeks. This fact, in late July, was the cause of some tension between some of the major players in the corporate market, and Mozilla, which has decided to stop supporting the rapid aging of the fourth version of the browser in favor of the effectiveness of the development of new versions. At that time, the management of the fund actually expressed itself in the sense that the corporate market is not interesting for them and long-term browser support for corporations such as IBM should become a problem for the corporations themselves.

Now the Mozilla Foundation has revised its plans. The management suggested releasing certain versions of Firefox as part of the Extended Support Release (ESR) every thirty weeks, which is five times slower than regular “custom” browsers and that should satisfy the basic wishes of the corporate market, which correlates the release schedule of its software with the release schedule of Firefox. Firefox ESR releases will be supported by the fund for another 42 weeks.

An official Mozilla proposal document is here

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