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Digital Arts Online has a thorough break down of some of the snags the Firefox development team has encountered as it continues work on the browser's 3.1 release. TraceMonkey, the JavaScript engine that's responsible for the browser's performance boost, seems to be what's holding its actual release back.

According to the forum posts the article points to, both Firefox developers and those focusing specifically on TraceMonkey agree that a decision has to be made -- but whether it's better to release Firefox 3.1 without TraceMonkey, release Firefox with TraceMonkey disabled by default, or give the developers a set amount of time before making the decision at all -- might be a sticking point.

By way of Glyn Moody's Open Enterprise blog comes word that Mozilla's Creative Director John Slater is gearing up to better organize and expand Mozilla's visual design community through the Mozilla Creative Collective.

The Mozilla Creative Collective hopes to harness the enthusiasm and talent that made the Spread Firefox campaign such a success. Slater plans on running regular challenges on the MCC site, as well as integrating a job board to unite artists with projects in need of design work.