Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Mozilla.org Redesign -- 9:56 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Mozilla.org, the homepage for Mozilla and its derivatives, has been given a facelift. It includes an announcement of the Mozilla Foundation. It's goal is:

to promote the development, distribution and adoption of the award-winning Mozilla standards-based web applications and core technologies, including the Gecko browser layout engine

Funding continues to come from AOL and also sources like Red Hat and Sun. It sounds like they're trying to make financial support from the outside easier by making themselves not-for-profit.

In a no doubt related story, AOL announced that they were cutting 50 jobs at Netscape. That's not terribly surprising since they threw up the white flag and surrendered to Microsoft (for $3/4 billion, of course). Why develop another (albeit superior) browser, when you can use IE for free and take the cash to prop up the train wreck that is AOL-Time Warner? Thanks Slashdot.

J.t.Qbe comments: The Mozilla site has needed this facelift for a long time. It looks much better than the original. While there I read up on Mozilla Firebird, so I thought I'd give it a spin. Nice work, especially for a 0.6 release! It definitely has a snappy feel, I love the built in Google/dmoz/current page search field, and it's nice that popup blocking is enabled by default. I can't wait to see what 1.0 will be like!

A.T. Hun comments: I'm waiting for Mozilla Firebird and especially Thunderbird to become much more mature before I switch over from Mozilla 1.4. 1.4 works so well, I see very little impetus to change.

News for 07/16/2003

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