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[Nvyseal]

images/news/firefox.jpgMozilla will not address 80 percent of bugs discovered in the Firefox 3.0 beta before the final version is released.

Mozilla Corp. will fix just 20% of the bugs now in Firefox 3.0 before the final version is released next year, the open-source developer's Web site revealed Wednesday.

As Mozilla pushes to post Beta 1 of Firefox 3.0, it has asked developers to prioritize already-identified bugs so that the most important can be fixed. But according to notes of yesterday's Firefox 3.0 status meeting, that will leave about eight in 10 bugs untouched.

"We have 700 bugs currently marked as blockers," the notes read. "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."

Mozilla usually refers to a bug as a "blocker" when the flaw is serious enough to justify postponing a release.

"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.

Read more @ PC World

[TheBearLT]

I think that they just don't know how to fix those "80%" of bugs, and Collecting bug reports for in-deep analyzation.. Agree ?

[Linoman]

Personally I think its crap that they are not going to fix these issues. I mean seriously if we want a bug riddled browser we could always use the alternative. Something I do not understand why can't software companies have less release cycles but proper working software. Not having to wait for version x before the software works.