Mozilla.org released 0.9.9 yesterday, making this the final version before 1.0 ships late this month or, early next month. I’ve been using Mozilla as my primary e-mail and browser client now since September. Before that I tested each build and sent feed back as I could. Having always been enthusiastic about the project, I’m still anxious to see it move out of beta, and into the real world as a viable browser alternative.
For those of you that don’t know what Mozilla is. Briefly, it is a browser born out of the codebase that was developed from scratch by many, many people in a collaborative effort. Netscape itself dedicated a fair amount of financial support, staff and resources. Led by Jamie Zawinski, the a rather infamous Netscape developer, the project captured the attention of a great deal of net geeks. Zawinski quit the project in disgust yet, the project rolled on slowly. In fact far too slowly for some and perhaps too late to save the internet from domination by Microsoft. Many hope that Mozilla will give Mac users a viable alternative to I.E. and bring linux browsers to a usable and standards supported level.
Anyway, go ahead and try it for yourself this is the net installer that is about 1/4 Megs and here is the full install that is about 10 Megs. Both are for all versions of MS Windows.