Firefox 7 Bug Casts Invisibility Spell on Some Add-ons

[Brink]

Just a day before the release of Firefox 7, Justin “Fligtar” Scott, product manager for add-ons at Mozilla, touched on the impact of Firefox’s current 6-week release cycle on add-on compatibility. Even as he proudly revealed that the open-source outfit had managed to preserve the compatibility of 99% of all add-ons hosted with it while moving from version 6 to 7, Scott conceded that add-ons not hosted on addons.mozilla.org continue to be a problem. However, as it later turned out, they are not the only problem.

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[Sardonicus]

Well, I guess they'll get it right in Firefox 8 or 9, 10, 11, 12, 13........:sarc:

 

[Borg 386]

They just issued a update, 7.0.1 tonight (9/29/11) 7:30 EST

 

[Sardonicus]

Wow, that was quick
The just released 7.0.1 apparently fixes it.

 

[arkhi]

We're at v7 already?! Dang I could've sworn I just updated to v6 not too long ago D:<

 

[Borg 386]

Yeah arkhi, they're really cranking them out lately.....

 

[Not Myself]

We're at v7 already?! Dang I could've sworn I just updated to v6 not too long ago D:<

Firefox/Thunderbird are now on a six-week release schedule,with a possible slower one being considered for enterprise users:

Mozilla proposes slower Firefox release schedule for enterprise users - TechSpot News