Please try one of our many mirror sites before downloading the following from our FTP server. The bandwidth you save will be your own.
There are no executable programs here. This is source code only, not an end-user product, not a runnable beta.
Understand that this is for developers only. If you have never compiled and debugged a very large C/C++ program before, all that downloading the following will do for you is use up a lot of disk space.
This is development source, and there will be problems. You might even need to modify it just to get it to compile. We tried our best, but these things happen.
Once you do get it to build and run, it will be unstable. This is not a beta release. It is not even an alpha release. There are unfinished features and many bugs that would not be acceptable in an end-user product. That's why this source release is for developers only.
This code is covered by the Netscape Public License. Please read the license before downloading it.

And now, if all that didn't scare you away, the moment you've all been waiting for...

Mozilla source:
1998-10-08

Macintosh	19.2 M
Windows and Unix	18.7 M
Windows Build Tools	1.1 M

Release notes:

The windows zip distribution of source has been eliminated. Both the Windows and unix platforms now share the same source distribution. To unpack a the .tar.gz file on windows you will need a win32 version of tar and gzip. These can be downloaded from Cygnus.
The above archives now contain the source for all platforms of the Mozilla clients. The Mozilla source code is divided into two parts: XP (``cross platform'') and FE (``front end''). The XP code (the vast majority) is code that compiles and runs on all platforms. The FE code is platform-specific (mostly GUI stuff.) All of the FE code is included in each package so you can see how different FEs work on different platforms.
The reason there are different packages at all is because of not-very-good technical details like the fact that each platform represents end-of-line differently in source code.
These are the changes that have have occured since the 1998-04-29 release of the source. We attemped to give credit where credit is due, if we missed you, we apologize, we really do appreciate all the help we've been getting.

Build instructions are available for some platforms:

While you're waiting for the download (actually, ``before you even think about downloading anything,'' but who are we kidding) you should familiarize yourself with the developer documentation we have compiled to date.

The source is also available through several other methods, including CVS; see the Source Code page for details.

And finally, a huge thank you to all the people and organizations who made the initial release possible!