Release History
Parts of this table are based on the release notes of Mozilla.
Old Version | Current Version | Future Version |
Branch | Version | Release date | Significant changes |
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Milestone Releases | M3 | March 19, 1999 | |
M4 | April 15, 1999 | ||
M5 | May 5, 1999 | ||
M6 | May 29, 1999 | ||
M7 | June 22, 1999 | ||
M8 | July 16, 1999 | ||
M9 | August 26, 1999 | ||
M10 | October 8, 1999 | ||
M11 | November 16, 1999 | ||
M12 | December 21, 1999 | ||
M13 | January 26, 2000 | ||
M14 | March 1, 2000 | ||
M15 | April 18, 2000 | ||
M16 | June 13, 2000 | ChatZilla, skin switching and auto complete were implemented. HTTP 1.1 was fully functional and was enabled by default. | |
M17 | August 7, 2000 | Scroll position was saved in session history. Improved auto complete and session history in the address bar. Improved cookie management. Alpha transparency for Windows (was already available on Mac and Linux). Plugin support for Linux (was already available in Windows and Mac). MNG support. | |
M18 | October 12, 2000 | Improved performance, stability, Java support, downloading / Helper App and mime type handling, tree sorting and column sizing, proxy and proxy auto configuration, auto complete, accelerators and mnemonics, and MailNews threading. about:plugins and toolbar customization were implemented. | |
0.6 | 0.6 | December 6, 2000 | Base of Netscape 6 and Beonex Communicator 0.6. |
0.7 | 0.7 | January 9, 2001 | First Mac release with SSL support. Mouse wheel support improved and was available for Mac for the first time. Forced reload (not from cache) was implemented. Remember maximized state of windows across sessions. Navigation back and forward in framed sites was improved. |
0.8 | 0.8 | February 14, 2001 | Find and Replace was implemented. Improved support for system colors on Linux, Windows NT and Windows 2000. New preferences for display of animated GIFs. |
0.8.1 | March 26, 2001 | New and improved ChatZilla and JavaScript Console. Basic gopher support. Better FTP performance. SSL connections through proxy. | |
0.9 | 0.9 | May 7, 2001 | Automatic proxy configuration was implemented. Late loading of Java for improved startup performance and footprint. Image rendering library was rewritten from scratch for increased performance. |
0.9.1 | June 7, 2001 | Stability improvements. Performance improvements in layout and networking. Bi-directional text support enabled for Hebrew and Arabic (Arabic shaping was Windows-only). Partial XSLT support turned on. | |
0.9.2 | June 28, 2001 | Stability improvements. | |
0.9.2.1 | August 8, 2001 | Source only (from which Netscape 6.1 was built). | |
0.9.3 | August 2, 2001 | Stability improvements. Quick Launch with multiple profiles. | |
0.9.4 | September 14, 2001 | Windows-only Quick Launch enabled by default. Viewing of Arabic language text on Linux and other systems. Improvements to offline IMAP. | |
0.9.5 | October 12, 2001 | Venkman available in complete installation. Support of tabbed browsing. | |
0.9.6 | November 20, 2001 | Support of page icon (except favicon), BMP and ICO images. Print Preview was implemented. | |
0.9.7 | December 21, 2001 | DOM Inspector available in complete installation. Support of basic S/MIME functionality, favicon, longdesc attribute of the img element, and digest access authentication. Only load CSS served as "text/css" when under strict mode. Print preview was implemented on Macintosh. | |
0.9.8 | February 4, 2002 | Support of Hebrew on Solaris. Support of Hebrew and Arabic on Mac OS. | |
0.9.9 | March 11, 2002 | MathML enabled by default on Windows and Unix. Support of TrueType fonts on Unix. Support of SOAP. | |
1.0 | 1.0 RC 1 | April 18, 2002 | |
1.0 RC 2 | May 10, 2002 | ||
1.0 RC 3 | May 23, 2002 | ||
1.0 | June 5, 2002 | Official Version 1.0 release. | |
1.0.1 | September 10, 2002 | Fixes in security, stability and dataloss bugs. Base of Netscape 7.0 and Beonex Communicator 0.8.1. | |
1.0.2 | January 7, 2003 | Fixes in security and stability bugs. | |
1.1 | 1.1 Alpha | June 11, 2002 | |
1.1 Beta | July 22, 2002 | ||
1.1 | August 26, 2002 | Improvements in application and layout performance; stability; web site compatibility; and CSS, DOM and HTML standards support. Download Manager as the default download view. MathML enabled for Mozilla on Macintosh (it was already available on Windows and Linux). Better bi-di Arabic and Hebrew support. Support of XBM. | |
1.2 | 1.2 Alpha | September 11, 2002 | |
1.2 Beta | October 16, 2002 | ||
1.2 | November 26, 2002 | Support of Type Ahead Find (now known as find as you type). Improvements to native look and feel in both the browser interface and the browser content area. Improvements in keyboard access and tabbing browsing. Support of link prefetching. XML "pretty printing" similar to that in Internet Explorer. | |
1.2.1 1 | December 2, 2002 | Fix of a DHTML bug. | |
1.3 | 1.3 Alpha | December 13, 2002 | |
1.3 Beta | February 10, 2003 | ||
1.3 | March 13, 2003 | An initial implementation of rich text editing controls. New splash screen. | |
1.3.1 | May 7, 2003 | Restored XPI functionality for Mac OS X users. | |
1.4 | 1.4 Alpha | April 1, 2003 | |
1.4 Beta | May 7, 2003 | ||
1.4 RC 1 | May 29, 2003 | ||
1.4 RC 2 | June 17, 2003 | ||
1.4 RC 3 | June 24, 2003 | ||
1.4 | June 30, 2003 | Support of NTLM authentication (Windows-only). Pop-up blocking has been streamlined to improve usability. | |
1.4.1 | October 10, 2003 | ||
1.5 | 1.5 Alpha | July 22, 2003 | |
1.5 Beta | August 27, 2003 | ||
1.5 RC 1 | September 17, 2003 | ||
1.5 RC 2 | September 26, 2003 | ||
1.5 | October 15, 2003 | Spell checker for MailNews and Composer. Improvements to MailNews, Composer and tabbed browsing. Support of double-colon notation for CSS pseudo-elements. | |
1.5.1 | November 26, 2003 | Mac OS X-only release to correct a downloading crash experienced by users of Mac OS X v10.1. | |
1.6 | 1.6 Alpha | October 31, 2003 | about:about was implemented. |
1.6 Beta | December 9, 2003 | Fixes in security-related and crash bugs. Included a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism. | |
1.6 | January 15, 2004 | Improvements in standards compliance and faster page load times. CSS inheritance updated to work per CSS2.1 (computed values are inherited). | |
1.7 | 1.7 Alpha | February 23, 2004 | |
1.7 Beta | March 18, 2004 | ||
1.7 RC 1 | April 21, 2004 | ||
1.7 RC 2 | May 17, 2004 | ||
1.7 RC 3 | June 8, 2004 | ||
1.7 | June 17, 2004 | Improvements in size and performance. Support of CSS3 opacity and JavaScript onbeforeunload event. | |
1.7.1 | July 8, 2004 | Vulnerability patch. | |
1.7.2 | August 4, 2004 | Vulnerability patch. | |
1.7.3 | September 13, 2004 | Vulnerability patch. | |
1.7.5 2 | December 17, 2004 | Support of NPRuntime (extension to NPAPI). Support of undetectable document.all. | |
1.7.6 | March 21, 2005 | Vulnerability patch. | |
1.7.7 | April 15, 2005 | Vulnerability patch. | |
1.7.8 | May 11, 2005 | Vulnerability patch. | |
1.7.10 3 | July 21, 2005 | Vulnerability patch. | |
1.7.11 | August 1, 2005 | Fixes for regressions in Mail & Newsgroups. | |
1.7.12 | September 21, 2005 | Vulnerability patch and regression fix. | |
1.7.13 | April 21, 2006 | Vulnerability patch and stability fix; end-of-life for 1.7.x product line. | |
1.7.13.2006071107 | July 11, 2006 | Last nightly update of Mozilla 1.7 | |
1.8 | 1.8 Alpha 1 | May 20, 2004 | Support of CSS2 quotes. Significant changes in XUL tree widget. Dramatic increase in the maximum number of cookies. |
1.8 Alpha 2 | July 14, 2004 | Initial support of the new NPAPI extensions. | |
1.8 Alpha 3 | August 18, 2004 | CSS at-rule for matching on site/document URL. Support of translucent windows on Windows and GTK2. Support of undetectable document.all. | |
1.8 Alpha 4 | September 28, 2004 | Support for CSS3 cursors, overflow-x and overflow-y. CSS error reporting via the JavaScript Console. DHTML performance improvements. | |
1.8 Alpha 5 | November 22, 2004 | Experimental support for CSS3 columns. | |
1.8 Alpha 6 | January 12, 2005 | XML parser upgraded. Lots of stability and security fixes. Some parsing errors are now marked in red in view-source. | |
1.8 Beta 1 | February 26, 2005 | Partial support of ECMAScript for XML (E4X). |
Note (1): 1.2.1 was the last official Mozilla.org public release to support Mac OS 9 "Classic". Technically though, 1.3a was the last version to support OS 9 but only via the use of the CarbonLib extension as explained in the 1.3a release notes. An unofficial port of 1.3a was later created in the form of WaMCom in an attempt to provide a stable build of 1.3 for OS 9 users.
Note (2): There was no Mozilla 1.7.4. The 1.7.5 version number was selected to match the internal Gecko version number of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.
Note (3): Mozilla 1.7.9 was cancelled. It was intended that Mozilla 1.7.9 would be released shortly after Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5. However, regressions were found in the 1.0.5 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird after they were released, so Mozilla 1.7.9 was cancelled. Mozilla 1.7.10 was released shortly after Firefox 1.0.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.6.
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