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Mozilla: No More Patched Bugs before Firefox 3 Final

The company plans to repair the issues when the final version is ready

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

16th of November 2007, 14:37 GMT

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Firefox 3.0 Gran Paradiso, the new version of the Mozilla browser, is expected to be released next year, representing the most powerful version of Firefox ever

released. But it seems like this application might leave numerous reported bugs unpatched as the Mozilla wants to repair only 20 percent of the glitches, PC World reported today. In a message published on the main Mozilla page, the company requires developers to rate the importance of the reported bugs in order to fix only the critical ones. This means that an important amount of the problems will not be repaired before Firefox 3.0 comes out.

"We have 700 bugs currently marked as blockers. That's too many. We're asking [requiring] component owners to set priorities on blockers, as a first pass of what bugs should be Beta 2 blockers. You want it to be about 10% of blockers, or what you can get done in four weeks," the note signed by Mozilla reads according to PC World.

The new version of Firefox is expected to come with several stunning features as today's rumors are talking about an avalanche of new functions included in the browser. For example, it was said that Gran Paradiso might include Google's support for offline applications, a technology which was designed by the Mountain View search giant through the Google Gears project.

"We'll be doing pretty much the same thing for Beta 3, which means that something like 80% of the [approximately] 700 bugs currently marked as blockers will not be fixed for Firefox 3. The hope is that by 'fixing the most important blockers' several times, we'll get to a point where we can cut the rest without feeling bad about the quality of the release. And if we do feel bad, we can add an extra beta or two," the message continues.

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