Bye Mozilla
The Mozilla Suite is dead. Long Live Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
The Mozilla Foundation has finally ceased development on what used to be Netscape Communicator. It has been the goal of the Foundation to separate the primary components of the suite, being the browser and mail clients, and with the highly successful release of Firefox 1.0 and to a lesser extent Thunderbird 1.0, this has been achieved. The release of these products mark the end of the Foundation's development on the Suite and it has been renamed Seamonkey for release as a commmunity project, much like how AOL released the Netscape browser suite. History repeats itself.
The Mozilla Suite began its life as the Netscape browser from Netscape Communications Corp. The Suite was introduced initially as the Netscape Navigator Gold Edition 3.0 back in 1996 and renamed Netscape Communicator from version 4.0 in 1997. When AOL bought Netscape Communications, they released the code to the public and called it Mozilla. Thus began the Mozilla Foundation.
Mozilla Firefox is fast becoming the browser of choice, reaching nearly 6% of the browser market with over 25 million downloads after only 3 months of release from 1.0. It will continue to be the flagship product of the Foundation with Thunderbird.
You can read up the history of Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, and all other internet browsers on Wikipedia.
The Mozilla Foundation has finally ceased development on what used to be Netscape Communicator. It has been the goal of the Foundation to separate the primary components of the suite, being the browser and mail clients, and with the highly successful release of Firefox 1.0 and to a lesser extent Thunderbird 1.0, this has been achieved. The release of these products mark the end of the Foundation's development on the Suite and it has been renamed Seamonkey for release as a commmunity project, much like how AOL released the Netscape browser suite. History repeats itself.
The Mozilla Suite began its life as the Netscape browser from Netscape Communications Corp. The Suite was introduced initially as the Netscape Navigator Gold Edition 3.0 back in 1996 and renamed Netscape Communicator from version 4.0 in 1997. When AOL bought Netscape Communications, they released the code to the public and called it Mozilla. Thus began the Mozilla Foundation.
Mozilla Firefox is fast becoming the browser of choice, reaching nearly 6% of the browser market with over 25 million downloads after only 3 months of release from 1.0. It will continue to be the flagship product of the Foundation with Thunderbird.
You can read up the history of Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox, and all other internet browsers on Wikipedia.
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