diff --git a/package/x11/mozilla/mozilla.conf b/package/x11/mozilla/mozilla.conf
index 40c5d20e2..63599a60c 100644
--- a/package/x11/mozilla/mozilla.conf
+++ b/package/x11/mozilla/mozilla.conf
@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
 main_mozilla() {
+
+	# fix the milestone.txt - if present and needed
+	if [ -f config/milestone.txt ] ; then
+		if ! grep -q $ver config/milestone.txt ; then
+			echo "Warning: Wrong version info in milestone.txt - fixup."
+			sed -i '/^[^#].*/d' config/milestone.txt
+			echo "$ver" >> config/milestone.txt
+		fi
+	fi
+
 	export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1 BUILD_OFFICIAL=1
 	export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=$root/usr/lib/mozilla-$ver
 
diff --git a/package/x11/mozilla/mozilla.desc b/package/x11/mozilla/mozilla.desc
index 055bf46b8..067a7b3e9 100644
--- a/package/x11/mozilla/mozilla.desc
+++ b/package/x11/mozilla/mozilla.desc
@@ -21,19 +21,16 @@
 [COPY] 
 [COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-[I] Fullfeatured (but fat and slow) web browser
+[I] The most full-featured and standarc compliant web browser
 
 [T] Mozilla is one of the most exciting WWW developments at this point.
-[T] Completely redesigned from scratch it makes a stable and easily
-[T] extensible web client.
-[T]
 [T] While Mozilla is standard compliant and has an excellent rendering
 [T] engine, it's default XUL-based interface is considered to be over-
 [T] crowded and bloated. On slower processors even trivial tasks such
-[T] as pulling down a menu is less than responsive.
+[T] as pulling down a menu might be less than responsive.
 [T]
-[T] There is a project (Galeon) which provides a small gtk+ based GUI
-[T] for the excellent Mozilla HTML rendering engine called Gecko.
+[T] There are project which provides a native GUI for the excellent
+[T] Mozilla HTML rendering engine called Gecko.
 
 [U] http://www.mozilla.org/
 [U] http://www.mozillazine.org/
@@ -47,8 +44,8 @@
 
 [L] MPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.6
+[V] 1.7rc1
 [P] X -----5---9 531.000
 
-[D] 433787143 mozilla-source-1.6.tar.bz2 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/src/
+[D] 2863280715 mozilla-source-1.7rc1.tar.bz2 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7rc1/src/