Updated Mozilla Firefox Roadmap

[Mike Fedyk]

Christopher Aillon wrote:

> On 07/14/2004 03:16 PM, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
>> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>>
>>> dragoran wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is no reason to replace mozilla some people preffer it some not.
>>>> Just add Firefox and make it selectable in preffered applications.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, there are several:
>>>
>>> 1. Mozilla (Seamonkey) is considered deprecated by mozilla.org.  
>>> "Firefox is the future."
>>> 2. As a result of #1, more development happens for Firefox; bugs are 
>>> more likely to get fixed in it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yep, though there still is a community around the suite (seamonkey).
>
>
>
> A user community, sure.  A development community?  Not really.

Not completely gone.  Beonex is still based on seamonkey.  And so are 
several other offerings.

>>
>>
>> That won't happen for a long while AFAICT.
>
> 3. No future Mozilla threads along the lines of: 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg00315.html
>
> One could easily come to the conclusion that the new Mozilla release 
> schedule with the extra alpha cycle is to slow down releases for fear 
> of needing a 1.10.  Silly?  Mozilla avoided 0.10 in the pre-1.0 days. 
> Firefox is doing the same today.  One could then further conclude that 
> 1.9 (later this year) will be the last in the Seamonkey regime....

Hmm, interesting.

Only time will tell...