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For the upcoming version release of the open-source browser,Mozzila is rewriting a large scale of the Firefix code.
According to Window Snyder most of the components in the current version of Firefox are being touched, programmers are replacing a lot of older code to increase performance, make the code base more modular and handle new security threats, like phishing and malicious Web sites.
Some components that are written in native code are being rewritten in managed code to reduce memory management flaws, like buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Managed code executes in a virtual machine, so there is less space for memory management issues to occur.Firefox programmers also are working on technology to help users fend off the growing number of malicious Web sites.

In recent months, malware writers began shifting their focus from spreading their malicious code via e-mail to embedding it in Web sites where it lies in wait for unsuspecting users. Researchers at security company Sophos noted that the percentage of infected e-mail has dropped from 1.3%, or one in 77 e-mails in the first three months of 2006, to one in 256, or just 0.4% in this year's first quarter. In the same time period, Sophos identified an average of 5,000 new infected Web pages every day.

Mozilla technicians are working on technology to deal with this advancing threat in Firefox 3, which is due out later this year.
All browsers are trying to figure out how to protect users from malicious sites,and they're also looking at adding security features to specifically deal with phishing attacks.

Applications, specifically browsers, give users too many pop-up questions to deal with and the questions often aren't very clear. Out of frustration, many users just begin pressing 'OK' to any security question that pops up.

Mozilla's technicians are working to make that security user interface more useful in the upcoming version of Firefox. The Cpmpany has hired extra people just to work on the security UI.