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MozillaZine: Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Stable Branch

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 5, 2004

“In a newsgroup posting, Asa Dotzler has announced that the
Mozilla 1.7 branch will become the new long-lived stable branch,
replacing 1.4. The stable branch is intended to act as a baseline
for developers building Mozilla-based products, with critical bugs
fixed on the branch as well as the trunk.

“Mozilla Firefox 1.0, a new milestone of Mozilla Thunderbird, a
new Camino release and several third party Mozilla based products
will be based on Mozilla 1.7…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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