Mozilla updates

There have been a host of mozilla related updates over the weekend. Though most of the news items are more than a day old, I have not posted them on my blog, bcoz my net connection was down for the past one day. In addition to that I was plain lazy to post anything :-)

• New Milestone Schedule Announced Asa Dotzler has posted a message on n.p.m.seamonkey about the new milestone plan. The main changes to the plan is the now longer periods prior to a final release, with two longer alpha periods, and a longer beta period.
• Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 1 Released In line with the new milestone release plan, mozilla.org released the latest milestone of the Mozilla Suite (Seamonkey), 1.8 Alpha 1. To learn more about the changes in this release, check the release notes and in case you have something to say about the release, head over to mozillazine.org and post your comments.
• 1.0 Branch Created for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird A new branch has been created for the mozilla standalone browser and mail client. The branch has been forked form the existing 1.7 branch. Read the full article for more details and build instructions.