Mozilla, the company that makes Firefox, formalized a release schedule for handling their development. It is based on fixed windows (6 weeks) where builds cascade down a series of different channels (Nightly, Aurora, etc.), each time with more bug fixes and stability. This is transparent and a perfectly acceptable way to manage a software project (Chrome has a similar series of channels, although they move much faster and not on a fixed schedule.)
Mozilla releases Nightly builds every day (basically)
Aurora builds are released every 6 weeks
Beta builds are bug fix releases of Aurora, every 6 weeks
Release builds are final bug fix releases of Beta, every 6 weeks
Extended Support Release builds are Release builds with all the Critical and High security bugs patched, about every 6 weeks. To be clear - only Critical and High security bugs.
Chain a series of Medium / Low vulnerabilities together until they get the level of access they require, e.g. remote code execution. They have a permanent window of exposure.
Is it enough? I think we've gone beyond boundaries of this topic too far.
I find it to be good, as I personally don’t use RSS, neither does the majority of people. Thus, Mozilla has reduced what to most is bloat, and won’t have to maintain it. Besides, there’s a dozen extensions out there that one could use instead.
What does this mean for RSS and its users (who happen to use Firefox as their main browser)?
I use Feedly and Firefox every day. Never once I thought about Firefox as "providing RSS support", not even sure how would that affect me and my (heavy) RSS usage.
Bummer, I really like RSS. I'm not using Firefox, but it's sad such a handy technology gets dismissed. I'm using Feedly (and Newsfold on Android) for everything, also dev.to.
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Yes, Snownews (on HBSD). Would highly recommend it. I do not use Firefox though, Chrome/Chromium is much more secure.
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You can't drop a sentence like this without an explanation, my dear Watson 🧐
Do you mean because Chromium has a bigger community and therefore more eyes on the code? Or are you referring to something in particular?
Mozilla, the company that makes Firefox, formalized a release schedule for handling their development. It is based on fixed windows (6 weeks) where builds cascade down a series of different channels (Nightly, Aurora, etc.), each time with more bug fixes and stability. This is transparent and a perfectly acceptable way to manage a software project (Chrome has a similar series of channels, although they move much faster and not on a fixed schedule.)
Mozilla releases Nightly builds every day (basically)
Aurora builds are released every 6 weeks
Beta builds are bug fix releases of Aurora, every 6 weeks
Release builds are final bug fix releases of Beta, every 6 weeks
Extended Support Release builds are Release builds with all the Critical and High security bugs patched, about every 6 weeks. To be clear - only Critical and High security bugs.
Here are some minor quirks, but in comparison to Firefox ESR's bug-fix scenario no big deal.
Case of threat modelling:
Chain a series of Medium / Low vulnerabilities together until they get the level of access they require, e.g. remote code execution. They have a permanent window of exposure.
Is it enough? I think we've gone beyond boundaries of this topic too far.
Ah, I almost forgot this nice little 'feature'.
I find it to be good, as I personally don’t use RSS, neither does the majority of people. Thus, Mozilla has reduced what to most is bloat, and won’t have to maintain it. Besides, there’s a dozen extensions out there that one could use instead.
What does this mean for RSS and its users (who happen to use Firefox as their main browser)?
I use Feedly and Firefox every day. Never once I thought about Firefox as "providing RSS support", not even sure how would that affect me and my (heavy) RSS usage.
Not a huge problem for me.
I use Inoreader to subscribe and read news.
I use CommaFeed. With a 100+ feeds...
Bummer, I really like RSS. I'm not using Firefox, but it's sad such a handy technology gets dismissed. I'm using Feedly (and Newsfold on Android) for everything, also dev.to.
Ditto on Feedly. It was my replacement for Google Reader when that was decommed.
I use tiny tiny RSS
Yes I do, I use Thunderbird to read the feeds but I wonder how I'll be able to subscribe now that the RSS button has disappeared from Firefox.
I get all my daily news through RSS feeds, viewed in Feedly. Best way to do it as far as I can see