mozillaZine: “Plans are afoot to remove support for SSL version 2.0 in Mozilla Firefox. SSL provides encrypted connections to servers, making it safe to transfer data such as credit card numbers and banking details across the Internet. Unfortunately, there are a number of known security flaws in SSL 2.0, which was the first public version of the protocol (no applications shipped with support for SSL 1.0). Therefore, the Mozilla Foundation is eager to disable support for SSL 2.0 and have all Firefox installations use only the newer and more secure SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 protocols.” [...]

I am sure we can assume this will impact all other Mozilla products such as Thunderbird.

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The Mozilla Foundation has announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will continue the development, distribution and marketing of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. Unlike the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation will be a taxable entity (that is, a for-profit rather than a non-profit) but the Foundation is eager to emphasise that it will pursue the same public benefit goals as the Foundation itself and will not be driven purely by revenue goals.

The change will not affect the day-to-day development of Mozilla, with the current system of module owners, drivers, reviewers and super-reviewers staying in place. End-users are unlikely to notice any difference either, though the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation will eventually have separate websites. At the moment, only Firefox and Thunderbird will be developed under the auspices of the Mozilla Corporation; other projects, such as Camino and SeaMonkey, will continue to be overseen by the Mozilla Foundation…

Full story:
Mozilla Foundation Announces Creation of Mozilla Corporation – MozillaZine Talkback

Mozilla Foundation Reorganization [RSS]

ZDNet UK is reporting that the next major release of Mozilla Firefox has been delayed and will now be known as Firefox 1.5 rather than 1.1. The upgrade is now set for a September release.

The Firefox Roadmap was updated on Wednesday by lead engineer Ben Goodger. It changed the plans from calling for an increasingly unrealistic 1.1 release this month to a 1.5 release in September. Firefox 1.5 Beta is now set for an August launch.

Read the full story here:
* MozillaZine | Mozilla Firefox 1.1 Delayed, Renamed to 1.5

sebFlyte writes “As Firefox moves swiftly towards 1.1 and Internet Explorer keeps trundling towards IE7, ZDNet UK has an interesting set of articles about Mozilla. Among other things, they look at the history of Firefox all the way from the pre-phoenix days, and have an interview with chief evangelist Asa Dotzler looking at what has driven the browsers success and why he thinks the release of IE7 will cause a massive boost in the uptake of Firefox.”

* Slashdot | The Future of Firefox

Mozillazine writes James “Kovu” Russell sent us a link to an Amiga.org article about the progress being made porting Mozilla to the Amiga, a project known as AmiZilla. According to the update, NSPR is “basically functionally complete” and XPCOM “seems to be mostly functioning”. The AmiZilla team first plan to port Mozilla to Amiga systems with 68k processors, before looking at native ports to the more modern AmigaOS 4 (which runs on PowerPC chips) and AmigaOS variants such as MorphOS and AROS.

Various projects to port Mozilla to the Amiga have come and gone over the years; MozillaZine first reported on the launch of an Amiga port in late 1998. The AmiZilla project dates back to 2003 when DiscreetFX started a bounty for the first person to port Mozilla to AmigaOS.

* AmiZilla Project Making Progress on Amiga Port – MozillaZine Talkback