Coding misstep forces new Firefox release
Monday, July 18, 2005 by WebGizmos | Discussion: Personal Computing
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Reply #6 Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:25 PM
The 1.05 release broke some extensions. Additionally, the English version was release before any other language versions.
When the extension issue was discovered, the Mozilla Foundation (MoFo) asked the European developers to wait until the 1.06 release, expected later this week, rather than releasing other language versions of 1.05. (The developers were free to release them as localised builds, just without the Moz/FF branding)
Apparently Firefox has a higher percentage of users outside the US, so those who use language versions other than English are seeing it as something of an afront.
The bottom line is that 1.05 probably shouln't have been released without more extension testing, or they should have gone ahead and released the other versions, and let the extensions stay broken for a few days. Now they've got a little bit of a PR mess on their hands.
Read more here:http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6950 Warning: international namecalling, fingerpointing, and general message-board trolling follows article.

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