The Mozilla Foundation this week launched a beta of the latest version of its open-source browser and applications suite, the first release since the project separated from America Online Inc.'s Netscape Communications subsidiary.
With the Mozilla 1.5 Beta, the project is promising improvements in performance,
stability, standards support and Web compatibility. But new features are not the
primary focus. The beta release marks the beginning of the project's journey to
focus more energy on end users and promotion of its efforts now that it is an
independent organization, Mozilla President Mitchell Baker said.
In July, Netscape broke off Mozilla and pledged to provide $2 million in cash
over two years to help form the new foundation. Netscape founded the Mozilla project
in 1998 as a way to move its browser code into the open-source community.
