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Mozilla 1.7 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-06-18 Mozilla, Gecko 53 Comments

Mozilla 1.7 was released along with the mail client Thunderbird 0.7 and Mozilla 1.8a1.

Arstechnica Sits Down with Mozilla.org’s Scott Collins

Submitted by Paul Ehrenreich 2004-06-16 Mozilla, Gecko 16 Comments

Arstechnica has a interview up with Mozilla's Scott Collins. The interview can be found here.

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Released

Submitted by sean 2004-06-15 Mozilla, Gecko 86 Comments

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has been released. Release and download infromation can be obtained here. Major changes include a new extension manager, a new theme manager, improved tools for migrating from IE as well as various performance and stability enhancements. A review can be found here.

Is the Netscape Browser Being Reborn or Just Stabilized?

Submitted by Tudy Parghel 2004-05-28 Mozilla, Gecko 35 Comments

AOL is planning to release an updated Netscape Navigator as early as June, but whether one of the Web's original browsers will make a comeback remains uncertain.

Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 1 Released

Submitted by adel 2004-05-21 Mozilla, Gecko 58 Comments

Mozilla.org today released the latest milestone of the Mozilla Suite and platform, 1.8 Alpha 1. This release is the first step towards a new milestone plan, outlined below. New in this release is a basic FTP upload UI, better Linux mouse support, and a number of other features. A more complete change log is also available. Builds are starting to become available on the FTP servers currently.

Mozilla gets a Mini-Me

Eugenia Loli 2004-05-20 Mozilla, Gecko 27 Comments

LinuxDevices has a story by the leaders of the "Minimo" (Mini Mozilla) project, an effort to reduce Mozilla's code and runtime footprints and optimize its display for the small screens on embedded devices. The Minimo authors believe Minimo will become the browser of choice on embedded Linux devices with 64MB of RAM. Our sister site NMC featured an interview a few months ago (with shots).

Opera 7.5 beta1 Released; Mozilla 1.7 RC 1

Submitted by Vasil Dinkov 2004-04-22 Mozilla, Gecko 54 Comments

Opera 7.5 beta1 released on all Desktop platforms while Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 is also out.

Mozilla Looking to Alliance with GNOME/FOSS to Combat Longhorn

Submitted by megaman 2004-04-07 Mozilla, Gecko 51 Comments

Brendan Eich has written to a newsgroup outlining some of the plans being made to ensure that Mozilla technology remains useful and relevant in the future.

AOL to Release New Version of Netscape

Submitted by John D\'Agostino 2004-03-30 Mozilla, Gecko 49 Comments

The Inquirer is reporting that America Online is to release a new version of the Netscape browser. The upgrade will be a "'point' release based on the latest Mozilla code" and "will be made available in the very early summer timeframe."

Mozilla 1.7 Beta Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-19 Mozilla, Gecko 48 Comments

Mozilla 1.7 beta is released with better Chatzilla, Js, Palm Sync, Kerberos support. Changelog.

Firefox Browser: Easy, Fun, Fast, Safe, Free

Eugenia Loli 2004-03-13 Mozilla, Gecko 75 Comments

Houston Chronicle reviews the Firefox browser and for the most part it gets a glorious review.

MiniMo 0.1 Released

Submitted by Ludovic 2004-02-29 Mozilla, Gecko 27 Comments

Yet another interesting project comes from Mozilla: MiniMo is a mini-Mozilla browser for PDAs and embedded systems. It requires anything between 32MB and 64MB of RAM and it currently runs on ARM CPUs using GTK+ (screenshots). Having just uploaded our latest OSNews web site for mobile devices, we hope that the MiniMo developer team have added a special/unique word in its user agent, so we can add it in the list of browsers that render our mobile version of our site instead of the desktop version.

Thirteen Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE

Submitted by Gsurface 2004-02-12 Mozilla, Gecko 114 Comments

With the current release of Mozilla Firefox 0.8, and in the excitement to try out something new, FlexBeta decided to compile 13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE.

FireFox 0.8 Released

Submitted by mozilla.org 2004-02-09 Mozilla, Gecko 137 Comments

Mozilla Foundation renamed its next generation browser from Firebird to "Firefox" and has released version 0.8 (release notes). The new release features streamlined downloading, an installer for Windows users, a new Aqua theme for MacOS X users and numerous other improvements. On other XUL news, ThunderBird 0.5 was released and Lindows.com released the NVU 0.1 preview recently, a cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML editor powered by Mozilla's technologies.

Mozilla 1.6 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-16 Mozilla, Gecko 74 Comments

Mozilla 1.6 is now released with many bug fixes and new features. Release Notes here.

Mozilla 1.6b Released

Submitted by jeff 2003-12-09 Mozilla, Gecko 48 Comments

Mozilla 1.6b is a beta development version for the popular OSS browser. Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 was released recently as well.

Mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 1.5.1 Browser for Mac

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-30 Mozilla, Gecko 34 Comments

MacNN reports that Mozilla.org has released Mozilla 1.5.1 for Macs, an update to the open-source browser. New features include a spellchecker for MailNews and Composer, additional MailNews improvements, improvements to Mozilla Composer, an overhaul of the ChatZilla IRC client, improvements to tabbed browsing, and other enhancements. Anyone knows the status of the Mozilla Calendar development, as last big update was last May? (screenshot)

Mozilla 1.6a Released

Submitted by Matthew Baulch 2003-11-01 Mozilla, Gecko 47 Comments

Mozilla 1.6a, the next alpha release from the "classic" codebase was announced at mozilla.org recently. The mail app now has vCard support, "remove from server after x days" and the (much requested) option of separate recipient and sender columns in the thread pane. Check out the Changelog to see a list of the other new features/fixes.

K-Meleon 0.8 Beta out; Galeon, Firebird, Epiphany Releases

Submitted by Yien Zheng 2003-10-27 Mozilla, Gecko 5 Comments

K-meleon's latest beta is built on Mozilla 1.5 code and incorporates all of the changes since 0.7. Additionally, Mozilla Firebird 0.7.1 was released for Macs, Epiphany released two versions, 1.0.4-stable and 1.1.0-test, and Galeon released 1.3.10.

A Bevy of Browser Releases

Adam Scheinberg 2003-10-15 Mozilla, Gecko 56 Comments

Many users submitted the news of the myriad Mozilla releases, including Mozilla 1.5, Firebird 0.7, and Thunderbird 0.3. In other news, Opera 7.21 for Windows, Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD was released this week as well. Update: Epiphany 1.0.3 is out too.

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