Even with the incredible success that Firefox has seemed to enjoy, one cannot dismiss the fact that there is always room for growth and yes, even improvment. Neowin.net presents us with a good look at tweeking, as well as the future of this incredible browser that has changed the way that we surf the Internet.

Now that Firefox is firmly establishing itself in the browser market (download graph), we can look forward to subsequent milestone releases by the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox 1.1 (Dubbed “Deer Park”) is slated for release in March of this year, and will be the end result of the post 1.0 “Aviary Branch - Trunk” merge. Mozilla also plans to release 2 additional milestone builds of Firefox before 2006. (With Fx 1.5 “The Ocho”, and “Firefox 2″ being released near year end)

Firefox 1.0 was developed away from the stability-focused Mozilla code “trunk”, allowing developers to integrate additional functionality into the browser. Features like the find bar and plug-in locator, were added to Firefox after the 1.0 code branch (”Aviary”) was created off the code trunk. Mozilla is planning to create a new code branch in preparation for Firefox and Thunderbird 1.1. The Gecko 1.8 branch will split from the Mozilla trunk following the scheduled release of Mozilla 1.8b on February 9th.

Tweaking Firefox has become a topic of some debate, ever since the big launch party back on November 9th. Enabling features like proxy pipelining and tuning the initialpaint.delay settings, seem to create an all-around faster browsing experience. Firefox developer Asa Dotzler cleared up some of the myths surrounding these popular tweaks a few weeks back: