Over the next couple of weeks, people like Paul Rouget and I are going to post a series of updates on a bunch of technologies that are part of our next release. That release, likely called Firefox 4, was underway before the release of Firefox 3.6 and already includes a bunch of new features, bug fixes and performance enhancements. (As an aside, I personally suspect that in a lot of ways Firefox 4 is likely to be a revolutionary release for both users and web developers, but more on that in later posts.)

Since we’re in the middle of the development cycle it’s important for web developers to know what’s coming and how they can test them. We’ll talk candidly about not only what’s coming, but why they are important. Very often in the current race to improve browsers context is lost on why something is or isn’t included, or why something is higher priority than something else. We’ll try and shine some context on a lot of these things as well as give good technical info about our roadmap to the next Firefox release.

So stay tuned, it’s going to be a fun ride.

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  1. George Slavov wrote on April 26th, 2010 at 10:42 am:

    Can’t wait!

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  2. Andy wrote on April 26th, 2010 at 10:55 am:

    Ah, glad to know this will happen!

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  3. Skoua wrote on April 26th, 2010 at 10:57 am:

    Anytime idea about when can we expect a beta release?

    Thanks for the updates for dev. :)

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  4. Christopher Blizzard wrote on April 26th, 2010 at 10:59 am:

    Beta schedule is still in flux right now, but I think we’ll be to beta quality in the next few months. I think the beta cycle might be long, but it’s hard to say at this point. The future is hard to predict. :)

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  5. Kristiono Setyadi wrote on April 26th, 2010 at 11:02 am:

    Love ya, Firefox!

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  6. Nikita wrote on April 26th, 2010 at 12:51 pm:

    wohoo, :-moz-any() has landed in trunk!

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  7. Markus Popp wrote on April 26th, 2010 at 2:27 pm:

    Do I understand correctly that Firefox 4.0 is going to supersede Firefox 3.6, so no Firefox 3.7 release in-between? (or in other words: current 3.7 is to become 4.0?)

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  8. Tharaka Devinda wrote on April 27th, 2010 at 10:13 am:

    What to say other than YIPIEEEEEE….HOORAYYYY…YAYY
    KAWABANGAAAA….etc etc.
    :D
    You rock Firefox. You are the mark among icons!

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  9. Toe wrote on April 28th, 2010 at 3:09 am:

    I wonder if Brendan’s Roadmap Updates will ever get, you know, an update. The last post there was in 2008…

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  10. Salman Farooq wrote on April 28th, 2010 at 11:09 pm:

    yay! I love Firefox.

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  11. Manu Ram Pandit wrote on April 29th, 2010 at 5:01 am:

    Just can’t wait..
    FireFox rocks.

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