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We have always had the potential to move that fast, but you can think of the difference here for features as: rather than scrambling to bring features to release faster if they're ready, we can choose to hold some features back for an extra 6 weeks in Nightly, for more development if they need it.

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This is the same kind of confusing stuff as in the article. Give it to me straight: when I upgrade stable Firefox to version N, how many more weeks will I wait for a stable update to version N+1?

The same, a month and a half.

But if you're waiting for a feature that was just finished to get into stable, that time is faster. You will only have to wait for N+2 instead of N+3.

Stable Firefox will still update around every six weeks, the same as before.

You could also think of the change like this: if you report a bug in the current release version, and someone fixes that bug in Nightly, the fix will end up in a new release 6 weeks faster than before.

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