![]() Here’s the distribution of Firefox versions for the final week of October 2011, as measured by StatCounter. Next November, the latest version will be Firefox 16. Remember, at the current pace we’ll see at least eight new Firefox versions per year. So imagine the effect of this kind of “left-behind” retention in the long run. To give you an example, Firefox 5 was the first version in this rapid release schedule and should be history by now, but it still clings on to almost 4% of the Firefox user base. There’s a long tail of older versions starting to form, and over time this may accumulate enough version fragmentation that it could become a real problem. ![]() For every new version of Firefox that Mozilla releases, a fraction of users are for whatever reason not being upgraded. On Tuesday, November 8, it’s already time for the release of Firefox 8.īut there are clouds on the horizon. Mozilla’s new, rapid release schedule for Firefox calls for a new version every six weeks. Mozilla’s development pace for Firefox went into overdrive this year, as they adopted a strategy similar to that which Google uses for the Chrome web browser.
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