The Mozilla Foundation is marshaling its resources for a browser battle with Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser. Last week, the foundation announced it was moving away from support for development of its Mozilla Application Suite, known as Seamonkey.Instead, the focus will be on the Firefox bowser and Thunderbird e-mail client.“The 1.7.x line will be the last set of Seamonkey products released and maintained by the Mozilla Foundation,” the foundation said on its Website. “The Mozilla Foundation will provide infrastructure for those interested in working on the 1.7.x releases, which we expect will include a number of vendors who provide these products to their customers,” the foundation said. “We’ve committed to support the 1.7 branch some time ago. If we ship 1.8 we’ll need to support that as well, and we just can’t manage supporting that many versions as well as Firefox and Thunderbird releases.” Firefox has grown rapidly with more than 25 million downloads. However, Microsoft captured the world’s attention last month when Bill Gates announced a new version of Internet Explorer would available by mid-year. Firefox is taking the right path by concentrating on Firefox development and not waiting for Microsoft’s forthcoming browser update, said Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research. “It will be interesting to see what Microsoft’s response will be in IE 7,” he said. Technology Industry