Mozilla: Hit bug on head, win lizard, Nov 06, 2002

In a tech industry equivalent to guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar, the development group behind the Mozilla browser is challenging geeks to guess the exact date and time when the project's 200,000th bug will be reported.

A new version of Mozilla is available. The 1.2 beta release provides new features like link prefetching, a GTK+ theme and more . . .

The Mozilla open-source project Tuesday released a new lightweight browser that promises to strip away the bloat and double the speed in which Web pages are displayed.

But the best part about Mozilla is that it is not just a browser. Scores of developers are now talking about using Mozilla as a "platform" -- that is, using Mozilla's underlying code to build non-browser applications, like calendar programs and e-mail programs and even Linux desktops.

The latest version of the open source web browser suite has been released.

Another big part of Mozilla's users-first agenda is rendering Web pages accurately by supporting the full set of Web-authoring formats. The Web Standards Project (www.webstandards.org) puts this succinctly on its Web site: "No browser does a better job of standards compliance." This means Mozilla is more likely than other browsers to display pages as they were designed.

We are pleased to announce the release of Mozilla 1.0, available for download now.

These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions, and known issues for Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 3. These release notes are updated when we receive feedback, so please check back for new information.

There has been much happy publicity about the recent XMLHttpRequest allows reading of local files security problem that was reported by GreyMagic Software. The problem was reported on April 30th and affected almost every version of Mozilla and NS6.x currently in use. By May 1st, the trunk and 1.0 branch builds had the patch included and were no longer vulnerable. Mozilla's security record speaks for itself, with only a handful of problems reported to IE's uncountable onslaught of problems, some of the IE patches taking over a month to be released.

The bug is found in versions of Mozilla from 0.9.7 to 0.9.9 on various operating system platforms, and in Netscape versions 6.1 and higher. The flaw doesn't affect Mozilla 1.0 release candidate 1 because XMLHttpRequest appears to be broken in that release, according to Mozilla developers.

We reach out through our technology. Mozilla.org is a technology organization. We don't have a marketing branch, and we don't have marketing resources. So we strive to provide technology that's useful to people and to make it known. We do not have, or currently plan, a marketing campaign. If someone wanted to do that, you know, we would certainly be interested and talk about it. But right now, it's not in our plans.

But even if Mozilla were a terrible browser, it would be important just for being different. Right now 90% of the Web surfers in the world use Internet Explorer. Do you trust Microsoft to control how everybody on earth sees the Internet? For that matter, would you trust AOL or any other company? On the Internet, diversity is healthy. Sometimes a little complication can be a good thing.

Link to page that describes system requirements, installation instructions, and known issues for Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 1.

The Mozilla Organization open-source project is putting the final touches on the first release candidate of its long-awaited Version 1.0 of the Mozilla Web browser. In a posting on Mozilla.org's Web site earlier this week, the group said it's "very close to the finish line for 1.0. ... We look forward to celebrating Mozilla 1.0 shortly!"

Mozilla is an unlikely candidate for a comeback, given that it is barely sliding out of the box. But a comeback is exactly what the open-source project hopes to pull off in the next few weeks, when the Netscape Communications-backed effort releases the first official version of its Web browser. After four years in development, the pending event has renewed excitement in a project that once was hailed as a possible Microsoft killer--only to tumble into obscurity after lengthy delays.

The long-awaited open-source version of the Netscape Web browser has reached a major development milestone as it nears a first official release.

The 3-year-old Mozilla project has finally stopped adding major new changes as its developers prepare a final 1.0 version of the software. Previous beta, or test, versions have been circulating for years

The latest browser versions have improved considerably in the past few months; they were all stable, standards compliant and loaded with solid feature enhancements and additions. The best browsers are Galeon 1.0.3, Mozilla 0.9.8 and Opera 6.0 TP3. While all of the browsers run surprisingly fast on slower CPUs, you need 256MB of RAM for Red Hat 7.2 with the KDE desktop.

The latest build of the open source browser has been released.

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