"development" cycle on new releases of things like Mozilla and FireFox

I've only been using SuSE since 9.0, which wasn't all that long ago. I know the RedHat folks take forever to release 'official' rpms for new software. How long does it generally take SuSE to release packages for major software releases like FireFox .9 or Mozilla 1.7? (I noticed Opera made a jump up to 7.51 since there was a security fix). Steve