Firefox in 2010
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After Firefox 3.6 ships in January, the Firefox team has identified the following features to ship in Firefox in 2010 (not a comprehensive list, but the major user-facing focus points):
- Multi-process plugins (Flash crashes/instability don't bring down the browser)
- Transition to jetpack extensions
- New UI stuff: new Windows menu structure, platform integration
- Weave
- Updater v2.0: updates which don't interrupt the user
- More responsive UI (async I/O)
- Better startup time
- Integrated Developer Tools
There are two major release vehicles available for these features: a stability release in Q1, and a major feature release which will preview in June/July and ship later in the year.
In order that out of process plugins can get widespread testing while not disrupting our ability to ship regular security updates, a special project branch will track mozilla-1.9.2: weekly betas with multi-process plugins will allow for quick iteration and widespread testing.