After months of listening to complaints -- not always patiently -- the Mozilla foundation is moving to ease some of the pain associated with the hyper-fast upgrade cycle. No, the consumer upgrade cycle is not going to slow down. But Mozilla is now suggesting that its developers actually consider the impact on add-ons that each new rev is likely to have. And equally important, Mozilla will start notifying add-on developers to be sure they know what's coming and can write, or rewrite, their applications accordingly.

On the business side, Mozilla has revived its Enterprise User Working Group to address concerns about issues troubling corporate IT departments. The group has already drafted a proposal calling for Mozilla to publish (and support) new business versions of the browser every 30 weeks. If the idea is adopted, it will probably be implemented in time for Firefox version 8 or 9.

Meanwhile, Firefox 7 is out. I've been using it for less than a week, and as promised it does seem to be more stable than its predecessors, probably because it uses significantly less memory. There are other changes under the hood as well, but as far as the stuff the average user will notice, there's not much to write home about.