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"In the most radical change to the Mozilla project since the late 1998 decision to rewrite much of the code, mozilla.org [yesterday] announced a major new roadmap proposal that will see Phoenix and Thunderbird (also known as Minotaur) becoming the focus of future development. According to the roadmap, 1.4 is likely to be the last milestone of the traditional Mozilla suite and the 1.4 branch will replace the 1.0 branch as the stable development path."

Mozillazine: Major Roadmap Update Centers Around Phoenix, Thunderbird

"[We] will propose a new application architecture based on the Gecko Runtime Environment (GRE), which can be shared between separate application processes [and make Phoenix its standalone default browser]. Summary rationale: Phoenix is simply smaller, faster, and better -- especially better not because it has every conflicting feature wanted by each segment of the Mozilla community, but because it has a strong 'add-on' extension mechanism. [...] Gecko stalwarts are leading an effort to fix those layout architecture bugs and design flaws that cannot be treated by patching symptoms. Those bugs stand in the way of major improvements in maintainability, footprint, performance, and extensibility."

Mozilla Roadmap

"The minds behind the Mozilla Web browser this week announced a major shift in strategy, one that focuses more on quality than quantity. [...] Since the release of Mozilla 1.0, in June 2002, the browser has been plagued with conflicting hacker troubles and bug fix after bug fix after bug fix. The browser is also getting bogged down by tons of applications requested by each segment of the Mozilla community, which can make load-in times slower. Because of that, Eich and Hyatt say they are calling for Mozilla's departure of its traditional 'Swiss army knife' approach. [...] The wakeup call may have been the launch of the Safari Web browser by Apple Computer. The Macintosh-based platform rooted on the KDE Project's KHTML code is reportedly winning converts even in its beta stage."

Internetnews.com: Mozilla Proposes Shift to Phoenix

"Well, it's about frigging time."

Matthew Thomas

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