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the mozilla team has started the 0.92 branch, which should be focused primarily on bug squashing and performance enhancement [as opposed to creaping featurism].

it appears that netscape is taking more of an active role in bug triaging and stability issues in preparation for an upcoming release:

"This is an important milestone to Mozilla.org and some vendors so we will be focusing on stability, leaks and major usability issues."

"We will be taking only very low risk, very high yield patches for this branch and we intend to release quickly. Also, we expect that Netscape will be doing some kind of release off of the 0.9.2 branch. After the Mozilla release of 0.9.2 Netscape will continue making fixes on the 0.9.2 branch."

while netscape has always provided much personpower for the project it has a history of just slapping some brand on top of builds and calling it a release. i wonder if the newfound interest in stability has anything to do with recent, um, squabbles:

"If war now looks inevitable, it is also unfortunate. A clash between AOL and Microsoft would be bad for consumers, because it could leave them having to grapple with competing standards. PC users want to see the two companies developing common technical rules and competing on implementation, rather than each trying to dominate the standard for online music, instant messaging and so on. Sadly, that looks less likely than ever."

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