status update

maintained by Tim Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu>

Last Updated Wednesday January 1, 2003

This status update page is updated every week. To get updates and news throughout the week you are invited to check out mozillaZine, a site devoted to Mozilla advocacy.

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mozilla.org timeline

It's been a busy year for mozilla.org, with 35 seperate releases. Below are links to their release notes and some selected highlights of the changes.

  • January 1, 2002 - First bug filed in the year: 117591
  • February 4, 2002 - Mozilla 0.9.8
    • nsITheme giving native classic widgets on Mac OS X and WindowsXP
    • MNG support turned on
    • Dynamic themes turned on
    • favicon.ico turned off (still supported with <link>)
  • February 13, 2002 - Chimera 0.1
  • February 14, 2002 - Chimera 0.11
    • 33% faster than 0.1
  • February 22, 2002 - Chimera 0.12
    • Scroll wheel support
    • Key events
    • Hover and cursor feedback
    • Improved scrolling speed
  • February 24, 2002 - Chimera 0.1.3
    • Security (SSL, HTTPS) support
    • Alert and user/password prompts
    • 5% faster than 0.12
  • March 11, 2002 - Mozilla 0.9.9
    • MathML enabled by default
    • SOAP support
    • Initial pop-up/pop-under suppression
    • Fullscreen mode for Windows
    • TrueType support on Unix platforms
  • April 6, 2002 - Chimera 0.2
    • Quartz rendering
    • native scrollbars
  • April 18, 2002 - Mozilla 1.0rc1
    • One button publishing support
    • Menubar and context menu reorganization
    • New download manager
    • Final XUL 1.0 changes
    • Scaled bitmap fonts for Unix
  • April 20, 2002 - Chimera 0.2.2
  • April 22, 2002 - Chimera 0.2.3
    • Working dropdown lists
  • April 24, 2002 - Chimera 0.2.4
  • April 26, 2002 - Chimera 0.2.5
    • Improved plugin support
  • April 29, 2002 - Chimera 0.2.6
    • Support OS home page and proxy settings
    • Ability to import bookmarks
  • May 3, 2002 - Chimera 0.2.7
  • May 10, 2002 - Mozilla 1.0rc2
  • May 23, 2002 - Mozilla 1.0rc3
  • May 28, 2002 - Chimera 0.2.8
  • June 5, 2002 - Mozilla 1.0
  • June 11, 2002 - Mozilla 1.1alpha
    • Download manager enabled
    • Quartz rendering on Mac OS X
    • Layout performance improvements for DHTML
    • XBM image support
    • Application startup speed improvements
    • Ability to view mail as text only
    • Image blocking for mailnews
  • July 22, 2002 - Mozilla 1.1beta
    • Improved Arabic shaping
    • JavaScript Debugger (venkman) improvements
    • Fullscreen mode for Unix
  • July 24, 2002 - Chimera 0.4
    • Profile now in ~/Library/Application Support, not ~/.mozilla
    • Downloading by clicking a link works
    • Stability
  • August 26, 2002 - Mozilla 1.1
    • MathML enabled for Mac
  • September 9, 2002 - Chimera 0.5
    • Download dialog
    • Drag&drop improvements
    • Site icons (favicons) for urlbar and tabs
  • September 10, 2002 - Mozilla 1.0.1
    • Security fixes, crash fixes, ui polish, site compatibility changes
  • September 11, 2002 - Mozilla 1.2alpha
    • Type-ahead find (incremental search) implemented
    • XML prettyprinting
    • Major improvement to Mac OS X IMAP speed (2000%)
    • Text zoom works with framed pages
    • Keyboard accessability improved
  • September 23, 2002 - Phoenix 0.1 (Pescadero)
    • First release of a new XUL based browser-only application
  • October 1, 2002 - Phoenix 0.2 (Santa Cruz)
    • Web form autocomplete (satchel)
    • Sidebar is back
    • Extension manager
  • October 14, 2002 - Phoenix 0.3 (Lucia)
    • Image blocking
    • Pop-up blocking whitelist
  • October 16, 2002 - Mozilla 1.2beta
    • Type-ahead find works on Mac
    • Linux picks up native GTK themes with Classic skin
    • WindowsXP picks up native theme for HTML form controls
    • Link prefetching support
    • Toolbars as text/icons/both implemented
    • Start page can now be a bookmark group
    • XFT support landed, but not in the default builds
  • October 30, 2002 - Phoenix 0.4 (Oceano)
    • Type-ahead find
    • Themes
  • November 4, 2002 - Chimera 0.6
    • Keychain for site passwords
    • Talkback support
  • November 26, 2002 - Mozilla 1.2
    • Palm sync for addressbook on Windows
  • November 29, 2002 - Mozilla 1.2 retraction
  • December 2, 2002 - Mozilla 1.2.1
  • December 7, 2002 - Phoenix 0.5 (Naples)
    • Multiple homepages
    • Intellimouse forward/backward button support on Windows
    • Last release to carry the Phoenix name
  • December 11, 2002 - Black Wednesday
  • December 13, 2002 - Mozilla 1.3alpha
    • Junk mail classifier
    • Intellimouse forward/backward button support on Windows
    • Last official release for MacOS Classic (OS 8.x and 9.x)
  • December 31, 2002 - Last bug filed in the year: 187322

Third party gecko integration timeline

In 2002 we started seeing the Mozilla layout engine, gecko, being embedded in various commercial projects. Here's some that hit the news:

  • January 2, 2002 - OEone HomeBase 1.0
    • Integrated Linux, XML based webtop and applications
    • Additional released throughout the year (see OEone's news page)
    • Version capable of running on a Red Hat installation released in August.
  • March 14, 2002 - AOL with Gecko Beta
  • April 16, 2002 - Compuserve 7
    • Integrates Gecko instead of Internet Explorer
  • May 15, 2002 - Netscape 6.2.3
    • Based on Mozilla 0.9.4
    • Fix for XMLHttpRequest security problem
  • May 16, 2002 - AOL for Mac OS X testing
  • May 22, 2002 - Netscape 7.0 Preview Release 1
    • Based on Mozilla 1.0rc2
  • June 10, 2002 - Beonex Communicator 0.8
    • Based on Mozilla 1.0
    • Mozilla tweaked for privacy and security
  • August 12, 2002 - AOL for Mac OS X
    • Integrates Gecko instead of Internet Explorer
  • August 29, 2002 - Netscape 7.0
    • Based on Mozilla 1.0.1
    • First Netscape release based on post-1.0 code
    • Above the standard 1.0.1 features, it includes access to Netscape Webmail and AOL accounts, P3P support, AIM/ICQ support, Radeio@Netscape, and a new throbber
  • September 25, 2002 - ActiveState Komodo 2.0
    • Mozilla-based IDE for editing, debugging, and testing applications written in Perl and Python
  • September 30, 2002 - IBM Web Browser for OS/2 V2.0
    • Based on Mozilla 1.0.1
  • November 1, 2002 - K-Meleon 0.7
    • Gecko based browser for Windows
    • Based on Mozilla 1.2beta
    • Rewritten bookmark handling, improved macros, layers for tabbed browsing
  • December 10, 2002 - Netscape 7.01
    • Based on Mozilla 1.0.2
    • New pop-up blocker
    • Start page can now be a bookmark group

Additionally, most Linux distributions include some version of Mozilla.

webtools timeline

mozilla.org also works on a number of tools used in the development of Mozilla and other projects, including Bugzilla, Bonsai, Tinderbox, and Mozbot. Some of the highlights:

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