Mozilla development work will continue
Straight_Man
Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
Essentially, the state of Mozilla, Firebird, and Thunderbird (the standalone email client to be used as the other half of a web pair with Firebird as browser half for those who want that) is that they are being still actively developed and it looks like they will beindefinitely-- not only is the work ongoing, but there is now a Mozilla Foundation formally in place which is sponsored by the following:
Sun Microsystems
AOL (they severed Netscape dev, and are using an IE base simply becasue so many folks used IE that they had to choose one or the ohter and many potential customers had and used and liked IE, BUT, they are still funding dev on Mozilla to have an alternative browser and email client code set available)
IBM
And others, including lots of end users who contribute what they think the browser is worth to them. Mozilla Foundation was announced on July 15, and is in place-- AOL contributed $2 Million to it to get things rolling.
The Foundation Website is here:
http://www.mozillafoundation.org/
and it is a very BUSY website (not in looks, in activity).
Mozilla itself is available here:
http://www.mozilla.org/
I have 95% of the features in Mozilla 1.4 final that I had in Netscape 7.1, and the rest are glitz and not needed. Version 1.5 is in early Beta now, as I get reliable new feature info concerning 1.5 I probably will tag them onto this thread.
John.
Sun Microsystems
AOL (they severed Netscape dev, and are using an IE base simply becasue so many folks used IE that they had to choose one or the ohter and many potential customers had and used and liked IE, BUT, they are still funding dev on Mozilla to have an alternative browser and email client code set available)
IBM
And others, including lots of end users who contribute what they think the browser is worth to them. Mozilla Foundation was announced on July 15, and is in place-- AOL contributed $2 Million to it to get things rolling.
The Foundation Website is here:
http://www.mozillafoundation.org/
and it is a very BUSY website (not in looks, in activity).
Mozilla itself is available here:
http://www.mozilla.org/
I have 95% of the features in Mozilla 1.4 final that I had in Netscape 7.1, and the rest are glitz and not needed. Version 1.5 is in early Beta now, as I get reliable new feature info concerning 1.5 I probably will tag them onto this thread.
John.
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Gecko-based browsers rock. Anyone using IE is not a true computer enthusiast.