Boy, just as we were getting used to having version 1 of Firefox around, now we can get 1.1 coming out of beta! This is cool to be sure! Then again, what about version 1.1 wasn’t cool?

Firefox 1.1, the next significant upgrade of the popular open-source browser, will go into beta, or preview, in six to seven weeks, a Mozilla Foundation engineer announced this weekend.

Asa Dotzler, one of the ten original Mozilla employees, wrote on the SpreadFirefox.com site that version 1.1 will enter a developer-only phase within a week to ten days, with a “general preview” version five to six weeks after that.

If Mozilla sticks to this schedule, the public beta of Firefox 1.1 should show in the May 21 - 28 time frame. [Read the rest]