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> I have yet to be convinced that this obsession with releasing every six weeks really gets useful features out there in a way that benefits most users anyway.

Security updates.




If it takes six weeks to push a security update, you're doing it wrong.

This is part of the problem with the fast update cycle: People are now conflating security updates (which should be out there ASAP and should make no functional changes at all) with functionality updates (which are never necessary unless you want to visit a site that uses a new feature or to use some change in the UI, have a much higher risk of unintentionally or intentionally breaking stuff that used to work, and certainly don't need to happen 8-9 times every year in any case).


Security updates already existed before Firefox went to the six-week release cycle, and there is now the ESR branch with security updates only.




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