Firefox 2's roadmap released

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Firefox 2's roadmap released
As soon as Goodger can get round to it

By Nick Farrell

AFTER YESTERDAY announcing that he was a little slow in getting Firefox 1.1 out, lead engineer Ben Goodger has released a new roadmap for version 2 of the open source browser.

Goodger, the lead engineer for Mozilla Firefox, said that the new roadmap will have a Developer Preview (alpha) in March and a Preview Release (Beta) in April.

The Firefox 1.1 is scheduled for a final release in June 2005. He said that two major halves (sic) of Firefox 2 should be complete by end of 2005. Goodger wrote in his blog that work on Firefox 2.0, will be divided over three major Milestones, 1.1, March 2005, 1.5, unscheduled, and 2.0 which is also unscheduled.

Since his first posting on the delays, Goodger felt the need to point out that the slippage in the release dates was not because he had started work at Google. He said it was simply because he needed to ensure the 1.1 release is of identical quality and scope as the 1.0 release.

This meant that a lot of testing needed to be done. He said that these are done by other people, so cynical hacks should not blame Google for the slippages.

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