Three months after Apple Computer bypassed it for a smaller, faster Web browser, Mozilla.org has refocused its coding efforts on a smaller, faster version of its own product.

In a new roadmap released Wednesday, AOL Time Warner's open-source browser development group Mozilla.org said its next build would be based on its Phoenix version, which it introduced in September 2002.

Under the new plan, Mozilla will abandon its XPFE toolkit for creating the browser's user interface. Instead, the main Mozilla code will come from the Phoenix project, a stripped down version of Mozilla written with Extensible User Interface Language (XUL). XUL, introduced four years ago by Netscape and Mozilla engineers, renders the browser with standard Web technologies, rather than platform-specific computer coding languages.

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