What Firefox trains are we in?

[gkoberger]

If you're curious what this means... years ago, Firefox took forever to hit 3.6, and the decision was made (mirroring Chrome) that releases would switch from "release when everything is done" to "the trains always run on time", where the release would go out at a predetermined time and anything that was ready would make it.

Mozilla also has a habit of simple question-based domains, such as "arewefastyet.com", for tracking progress.

[culi]

Here's a list of sites. The Rust community has also (by extension) adopted the snowclone (e.g. arewegameyet.rs)

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

[kirk782]

Was it done because Mozilla thought that Chrome's increasing version numbers would make ordinary people think that Chrome was ahead of Firefox ?

[thrdbndndn]

Not that matters, but "what xxx" question really doesn't have the same vibe as "are we xxx yet" ones.

[graetzer]

The numbers reported on arewefastyet.com seem to stop at July 15th though

[lloydatkinson]

Why is that site so poorly designed? I tried in both FF and Chrome. In FF I see nothing on any chart. On Chrome, I see a few data points in July and then nothing else.

[joebig]

Thanks. Also makes it easy to browse between releases to check dev notes and in general 'What's new'.

[glandium]

You're thinking about Firefox 4.

[captn3m0]

Few related things I had to track down about this site recently:

1. This is an official Mozilla site.

2. Source is at https://github.com/mozilla/releases_insights, under MPL-2.0

3. Thanks to Pascal Chevrel for creating and maintaining this. https://whattrainisitnow.com/humans.txt

As far as I can tell, this is the only official page that documents Firefox 115 ESR being extended for Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 up to March 2025.

[KwanEsq]

There's also https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/ffR... , if that would count

[sdk-]

There's also a nice website to see what landed in a specific Nightly build https://mrotherguy.github.io/fx-nightly-changelog/

[joebig]

Cool. Helped me track down the origin story of the 'dedicated search button' feature which, to me, mysteriously insinuated itself into Android FF:)

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/07/18/100-webdriver-bi...

[francispauli]

I finally gave up on firefox a year ago, after being a lifetime user. I can live with it being slightly slower than other browsers but it had strange hangs and very slow loading sometimes that made me switch and didn't find in other browsers. It could be an extension, that specific about:config setting or sometinhg else but i switched to have a browser that doesn't require me troubleshoot this stuff.

[butz]

First time I hear about "train" analogy in release management. Interesting if someone is going to build this visualisation with actual animated train models and tracks ;)

[anorangecat]

Which of these trains is for the developer edition of firefox?

[McGuffin]

By default it is on the aurora update channel, seems to have the same version number as beta, but you can also change it ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Channels ).