Thanks unsanity for the heads up on this news. AOL-Netscape's Mozilla Organization has not placed its Mozilla 1.0 browser suite on its public FTP server as an official release. But you can download for what all intents and purposes is Mozilla 1.0 now -- details and links below.
All-in-all, other than perhaps for its Tabbed Browsing feature, the Mozilla browser-suite still does not offer any compelling, performance reason for people to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to AOL-Netscape's Mozilla browser. On the basis of overall browser performance, look, and feel, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser still is a better choice than AOL-Netscape's Mozilla browser -- for the MS Windows desktop.
On the other hand, the Mozilla Tabbed Browsing might just be enough to set it apart and above other Linux-based Web browsers. However, there are several popular Web browsers for the Linux desktop such as Konqueror, Nautilus, Netscape, and Opera with which Mozilla has to compete. Opera has tabbed browsing too
Download: Mozilla 1.0 Unofficial build
Before you do install the Mozilla 1.0 branch builds, here are some words of caution. These Mozilla 1.0 branch builds are not official Mozilla 1.0 final release builds. The final, official Mozilla 1.0 builds might be and likely will be different. Additionally, all the precautions associated with beta, release candidate, branch, nightly, and developer/tester builds apply to these builds.
News source: Full story at Mozillaquest.com