Mozilla explores how the business Firefox users and can meet these with the release of new versions of its software. Business users complain about the pace at which Mozilla new Firefox versions are released.
Firefox developer Mozilla investigates how the different interests in the release of new versions in the balance. The developer received criticism from business users, because the organization releasetempo significantly with teenagers. Three months after the release of Firefox 4 came version 5 and got the ‘old’ version of the end-of-life status; there will be no further updates for it. Business users complain that they still were busy with the certification and testing of Firefox 4.
Although Firefox-coordinator Asa Dotzler thereon indicating that Firefox is now once was not intended for business users, it seems Mozilla now careful to come back. The non-profit developer says to realize that loyal Firefox users ” the software on the workplace and it departments, Firefox on the workplace offer. The organization says that it is, however, mainly on individual users to target.
In February, it was announced that Mozilla the releasetempo of new Firefox versions will increase. Where there are previously yet years passed without a new major version, it is now a matter of months. This is Mozilla the same way as Google, which managed to in the past year seven new Chrome versions; the new stable release is version 12, where that one year ago, Chrome 5. Meanwhile, Microsoft with Internet Explorer tightly to a releasetempo of one major update per year.