Thanks unsanity for the heads up on this news. AOL-Netscape's Mozilla Organization has not placed its Mozilla 1.0 browser suite on its public FTP server as an official release. But you can download for what all intents and purposes is Mozilla 1.0 now -- details and links below.
All-in-all, other than perhaps for its Tabbed Browsing feature, the Mozilla browser-suite still does not offer any compelling, performance reason for people to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to AOL-Netscape's Mozilla browser. On the basis of overall browser performance, look, and feel, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser still is a better choice than AOL-Netscape's Mozilla browser -- for the MS Windows desktop.
On the other hand, the Mozilla Tabbed Browsing might just be enough to set it apart and above other Linux-based Web browsers. However, there are several popular Web browsers for the Linux desktop such as Konqueror, Nautilus, Netscape, and Opera with which Mozilla has to compete. Opera has tabbed browsing too
Download: Mozilla 1.0 Unofficial build
Before you do install the Mozilla 1.0 branch builds, here are some words of caution. These Mozilla 1.0 branch builds are not official Mozilla 1.0 final release builds. The final, official Mozilla 1.0 builds might be and likely will be different. Additionally, all the precautions associated with beta, release candidate, branch, nightly, and developer/tester builds apply to these builds.
News source: Full story at Mozillaquest.com
All-in-all, other than perhaps for its Tabbed Browsing feature, the Mozilla browser-suite still does not offer any compelling, performance reason for people to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to AOL-Netscape's Mozilla browser. On the basis of overall browser performance, look, and feel, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser still is a better choice than AOL-Netscape's Mozilla browser -- for the MS Windows desktop.
On the other hand, the Mozilla Tabbed Browsing might just be enough to set it apart and above other Linux-based Web browsers. However, there are several popular Web browsers for the Linux desktop such as Konqueror, Nautilus, Netscape, and Opera with which Mozilla has to compete. Opera has tabbed browsing too
Download: Mozilla 1.0 Unofficial buildBefore you do install the Mozilla 1.0 branch builds, here are some words of caution. These Mozilla 1.0 branch builds are not official Mozilla 1.0 final release builds. The final, official Mozilla 1.0 builds might be and likely will be different. Additionally, all the precautions associated with beta, release candidate, branch, nightly, and developer/tester builds apply to these builds.
News source: Full story at Mozillaquest.com
At the time Mozilla 1.0-RC1 was released there were 533 "crash" bugs listed in Mozilla's Bugzilla bug-tracking database, 561 "crash" bugs listed when Mozilla 1.0-RC2 was released, and 585 "crash" bugs listed when Mozilla 1.0-RC3 was released. The "crash" bugs count is up to 589 open crash bugs today. Additionally there were some 150 "dataloss" bugs listed in the Mozilla bug-tracking database, Bugzilla, today.
Lots of Bugs for Mozilla 1.0
Release of Mozilla 1.0-RC1 signaled that finally after four-years in development, Mozilla 1.0 is on its way soon. However, some in the Mozilla community question whether Mozilla 1.0 is ready for show time. One major concern is that there are too many open bugs in Mozilla. Another is that Mozilla 1.0 still does not have enough polish.
However, there has been lots of bug squashing and product polishing during the Mozilla 1.0 release candidates process. Nevertheless, if the Mozilla people want Mozilla 1.0 to be a clear success, they ought to have done some more bug-squashing and product-polishing before releasing Mozilla 1.0.
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