Ex-Mozilla Worker Blasts Accelerated Updates

JMH · Jul 16, 2012

When a former Mozilla employee knocked the company's accelerated release schedule as having "killed Firefox's reputation," he got more than he bargained for.

Comments by Jono Xia in a July 5 post to his personal blog quickly spread across the Web, with headlines ranging from "Firefox Developer: 'Everyone Hates Firefox Updates'" to "Firefox: Can this Web browser be saved?" Most of those blogs and news stories focused on the fact that Xia, as an insider, was confirming what many frustrated Firefox users have said for over a year: Frequent updates are a pain.

But things got lost in translation, Xia said.

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Ex-Mozilla Worker Blasts Accelerated Updates

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