“Since 1998, when Netscape decided to open-source its flagship
Netscape Communicator suite and call the project Mozilla, the
software has developed into a modern, flexible collection of
applications, including the Mozilla browser, email client, chat
client, and Web page creation tool, as well as the dedicated
Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird email client. To get a deeper
understanding of Mozilla and the direction it is heading in, I
spoke to Chris Hofmann, the Mozilla Foundation director of
engineering.“These days Hofmann is focused on the short-term releases
Mozilla is working on. ‘Releasing a solid Mozilla 1.7 that will
help distributors and deployments move up from last year’s Mozilla
1.4 has been the priority. With that now out of the way, the next
priority is to get Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 released at the end
of this summer…'”