The final version will be released this summer

May 30, 2005 12:16 GMT  ·  By

The Mozilla Foundation is making the final preparations for the release on June 2 of version 1.1 alpha, code-named Mozilla Deer Park.

This new Firefox release is appraised to be a significant improvement of the original browser, which has been lately the subject of several security problems, some rated as critical. FireFox 1.1 will include an improved pop-up blocking system, but also an updating solution that is more effective than the current one.

The browser's Gecko rendering engine will not disappear from the FireFox picture. It will be a part of the new browser, supporting the CSS3 (Cascade Style Sheet version 3) and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) standards.

The final version of the FireFox 1.1 browser should be available this summer, and until then, it is recommended that the alpha and beta versions should be used only be developers. The user takes full responsability for employing an incomplete solution.

The browser's improvements will attract, however, a large number of users eager to test the differences, and Mozilla Foundation keeps an eye out for any measures to optimize the solution against the critical vulnerabilities that emerged during the past three months. The most important of them allowed an attacker to trick the user into believing that he is about to download a file from a well-known Mozilla Foundation-owned site, as addons.mozilla.org or update.mozilla.org. The latest security update, Firefox 1.0.4, has been released in record time from the problem's occurrence, trying to determine the loyal users not to give up on FireFox.