PT Struggling to close the gap in its war with Microsoft, Mozilla.org has released a preview of its first full-featured Web browser.
Alpha means a lot of things to a lot of people.
Our goal in putting out an alpha is to label it as something that someone can use regularly for their browser and mail client. Mozilla's releases are distinct from Netscape's. Netscape, which was acquired by America Online last year, will put out a Netscape-branded version of the browser, including releasing its own initial alpha and intermediate beta trial versions. Both Netscape and Mozilla.org declined to give target dates for those releases. Communicator has faced a series of delays on its way to market, fueling Microsoft's ride to overtake Netscape in the browser market.