It's a good idea, one that comes from Chrome, actually, one that Microsoft is itself co-opting for Internet Explorer. And a big part of that strategy involves not focusing on these big bang releases for the foreseeable future. Mozilla, for its part, promises to speed up Firefox development going forward.
It should see rapid adoption, sure, but the question is whether Firefiox 4 can reverse the stagnation and get the product on a growth path again. But Firefox 4 has been years in the making and it enters a market that is no longer quite so friendly. There was a semi-major release, Firefox 3.5, and then a Firefox 3.6 release as well. Since Firefox 3, Mozilla evolved its browser, but perhaps too slowly. And Firefox's seemingly unstoppable usage share climb actually did stop: It's essentially been stagnant for the past year or so. Firefox's position as the browser of choice for technophiles and others in the know has been usurped, in dramatic and unexpected form, by Google Chrome. Back then, I was a diehard Firefox user and advocate, and had been using the product since it was an early alpha browser called Phoenix.Ī lot has changed since then. The last time I reviewed a major new version of Firefox, it was June 2008 and Mozilla had just delivered Firefox 3.
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