After a host of test releases and one false start, a new version of the Firefox browser will be ready tomorrow, according to a media alert issued by the Mozilla Foundation today. Firefox 1.5 will be available for free tomorrow afternoon, U.S. Pacific Standard Time, at www.getfirefox.com and www.mozilla.com, according to the open-source group. A complete statement outlining the new features in Firefox 1.5, as well as some additional Mozilla news, will be issued tomorrow at the time the new version is available.

New features in Firefox 1.5 include a better system for updating software, faster navigation using the “Back” and “Forward” tabs, and a redesigned Options/Preferences window that increases the number of category icons and moves them from the left side of the window to the top. Firefox 1.5 also includes new support for Web standards, adding support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JavaScript 1.6 and new versions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). SVG is a language based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) for writing sophisticated two-dimensional graphics, and JavaScript 1.6 is the latest version of the scripting language.

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