Mozilla Browser Bug Fixed

Developers of the open-source Web browser Mozilla released a new version of the software this week after pulling an earlier version marred by a bug that prevented some Web site content from being displayed.

Mozilla 1.2.1 is available now as a free download on the Mozilla.org Web site. Mozilla.org is an open-source group backed partly by Netscape Communications, now a division of AOL Time Warner, which contributed the initial technology behind the Web browser.

The new release appeared less than a week after Mozilla.org released version 1.2 of the software. A bug quickly discovered in that release affected some pages running dynamic HTML, a Web programming language that allows elements of a Web page to change after it has been loaded.

Fixing the Flaw

The developer group pulled the original download from its Web site over the weekend and has posted a corrected version in its place.

The latest release adds only a fix for the bug while including all the features added to the bungled 1.2 release. One new feature of 1.2 allows users to set their home pages to include a single view of multiple Web pages. The release also allows users to customize the software to display toolbars as text or icons.

Mozilla 1.2.1 can be installed on Windows XP and on earlier Microsoft operating systems dating back to Windows 95. A version of the browser is also available for Mac OS X and for various flavors of Linux. Full support details are available online at Mozilla.org.

Mozilla.org is urging users who installed Mozilla 1.2 to upgrade to the new release.