NewsForge recently (August 4th) did an interview with Mozilla Corp.’s Vice President of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer. The bulk of the interview they talk about JavaScript, security as well as better migration for Linux users who got Firefox packaged with their Linux distribution. In regards to JavaScript, Firefox 2.0 will ship with the new and improved JavaScript 1.7, which is the first upgrade in nearly 6 years (sorta like IE). Further, transitioning to Firefox 2.0 should go much smoother compared to what many of us went through when we went from 1.0.7 to 1.5 last December. Many of us experienced the…

In about two weeks Mozilla will release an update for Firefox. Version 1.5.0.7 is addressing some possible security issues and any known regressions. Now, hopefully this update will go smoother than the 1.5.0.5 update did when Mozilla pulled a ‘Microsoft’. In this instance a ‘Microsoft’ is causing a problem with fixing another problem, which they quickly fixed with the 1.5.0.6 release. At this time there are no planned updates for Thunderbird which will remain at the current 1.5.0.5 version. More information on the Firefox 1.5.0.7 Planing Page