Firefox 3 struggling with serious bugs
By Matthew Sparkes
Posted on 16 Nov 2007 at 10:36
Firefox 3 will ship with many of its existing bugs still unresolved, according to notes from the latest progress meeting.
The latest version of the popular open source browser is still in beta testing, and has slipped several months behind the original release schedule.
Bugs which would normally halt the release of a product are known within Mozilla as blockers, and there are still hundreds of these remaining.
"We have 700 bugs currently marked as blockers. That's too many," says the meeting notes.
The foundation is asking developers to set priorities on these blockers, so that they can work on the most important first. However, most of these will not be resolved before the third beta release of Firefox 3.
"Note that we'll be doing pretty much the same thing for beta 3, which means that something like 80% of the 700 bugs currently marked as blockers will not be fixed for Firefox 3."
"The hope is that by "fixing the most important blockers" several times, we'll get to a point where we can cut the rest without feeling bad about the quality of the release."
From around the web
advertisement
- Chrome's shine getting lost in translation
- BytePac: the cardboard hard disk enclosure
- How tech loosens our grip on reality
- Hokum watch: Safer Internet Day
- Why I'm deleting Adobe from my PC
- Prepare to be patronised: it's Safer Internet Day
- Dear Sony, Samsung and every other tech company in the world: stop trying to be Apple
- Will Apple's Final Cut Pro X update placate the pros?
- Smartr Contacts for iPhone review
- Switching to Office 365's Outlook Web App
- Why virtualisation hasn't slowed the growth of data
- How to make Google AdWords work for your business
- The curse of sloppily written software
- Paying for your crimes with Bitcoin
- Behind the scenes: tech support for Formula 1
- The security risk of fat fingers
- Why Windows Phone 7 isn't quite ready for business
- When will Microsoft stop fiddling with Windows 8?
- Flash down the pan?
- Metro Style apps vs desktop applications
advertisement
