Firefox OS: the leaders want-to-update every three months

Open Source: Mozilla announced a quarterly update-plan for its mobile operating system. In addition to the security fixes.

Mozilla plans to print its mobile operating system, Firefox OS, up-to-day cycles particularly short: they will be published every three months, if the reality is sticking to plans for executives, announced Monday.

Since the release of version 1.0, Mozilla seems if be rendered account of the magnitude of the task. In a blog post of Alex Keybi, in charge of the management of updates at Mozilla, the editor explains that unlike existing products (the browser Firefox on Mac, Linux and Windows, his mobile on Android version and Firefox ESR), other constraints have to be taken into account.

Harder to keep pace for Firefox OS

"We had to juggle the time jobs and the needs of all OEMs, operators and chip manufacturers with which we partner. These new variables have led us to build on Gecko 18 for the first two major versions of Firefox OS."

This explains the length of publication of these two major versions: six weeks on average. Either far enough away from the six-week delay between two Firefox publications on computer, Android and Firefox ESR. But this period of six weeks, that Mozilla calls its "heartbeat", must inspire future updates of Firefox OS.

The mobile operating system will fail to do as well, but the intended duration of three months between posts in fact still updates cycle "the most aggressive market", Judge Alex Keybi.

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