

I ran into a 1986 model at the US-127 cruise up the gut of the Lower Peninsula last year, and immediately, that funny feeling came over me: Bill Elliott’s Coors Cup car at Talladega, Bob Glidden’s Pro Stocker, my own forays into three digit “I don’t do this now that I’m an adult” speeds in my Dad’s hand-me-down ’87 5.0 ‘Bird. If I said I wasn’t a T-Bird fan by that point, I was lying through my teeth. I vividly remember a test ride in an ’88 model, 5-speed equipped, gold, with Dad taking a freeway entrance ramp a couple dozen miles an hour faster than the posted speed limit, the boost needle swinging to the starboard side of its small gauge. So maybe the street Turbo Coupe didn’t quite have the effect on the drive train or psyche that a mountain motored door-slammer did, but even factory ‘Birds pervaded my pre-adolescent gray matter. Even as a kid, I’d feel a pang of sadness for U-Joints and ring gears as I cheered on one of my racing heroes. The skinny front tires of Glidden’s Chief Auto Parts/Motorcraft T-Bird would trip the stage lights, the engine would scream, and potential energy turned brutally kinetic in an instant. More details on contents of releases can be found in the release notes archive or Wikipedia: Firefox version history.In between those peregrinations to the dealership, however, I was glued to our console Zenith, watching Bob Glidden smack down those Reher-Morrison Camaros in NHRA Pro Stock drag racing. During this period high-risk patches should avoid landing until after the Nightly version bump lands on mozilla-central on merge day. * The Nightly soft freeze is typically during the week prior to merge day. Firefox Merge/Release Full Scheduling Calendar ( ICS) (highly detailed - 99.99% up to date).Firefox Merge/Release Dates ( ICS for Thunderbird/Lightning or your calendar app) (low noise).Please refer to one of the following calendars for up-to-date scheduling: This wiki page may not always have the most current information. Thunderbird tracks the ESR schedule column per Thunderbird release info. The release to users may be a few days later, to allow for manual testing and sign-off. Code is not always released to users on the same day as the branch migration. Future dates may change if the process changes. This schedule is based on the current RapidRelease plan.
