Ride the Firefox development wave with Aurora pre-release builds | Linux Today

Ride the Firefox development wave with Aurora pre-release builds

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 15, 2011

“Mozilla has announced the launch of Aurora, a new Firefox
release channel that is intended to open up experimental Firefox
features to a broader audience of testers. The Aurora channel will
serve up a stream of Firefox builds that are less fragile than the
nightly builds but not as stable as official pre-releases.

“Mozilla is transitioning to shorter release cycles and a more
incremental development model. The organization aims to deliver
three more major Firefox releases this year, bringing the open
source Web browser’s version number up to 7.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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