Taking a first step toward commercial release of a
product based on the Mozilla project, Netscape
released
a beta of Netscape 6.
Installation is performed through a network-based setup
program, somewhat like the Internet Explorer 5 installer.
The primary changes to the Mozilla project appear to be
cosmetic and commercial, like an "Activate Netscape" box
that connects users to Netcenter functionality
but doesn't appear to be necessary to the program itself.
The preview release feels very much like the recent
Mozilla builds, except that some of the layout is slightly
different and the stability seems better. (This story was
written using the preview release on a Windows laptop that
refused to run Mozilla M14
at all, for instance.)
As always, preview releases are 'run at your own risk'
software.