Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Released

Anonymous Cow writes "Almost a month after the release of Firefox 1.5 beta 1, the second beta of Firefox 1.5 has been released. Firefox 1.5b2 can be downloaded from Mozilla.org. A changelog outlining the changes in this release is also available. The official announcement is over at MozillaZine." From the announcement: " This release does not contain any major new features since Beta 1. Improvements to automated update system, Web site rendering and performance, along with several security fixes are included in this release. Beta 1 users that want to help test software update, should wait for the automatic update to be triggered sometime in the next few days. The incremental update from Beta 1 to Beta 2 is 700K bytes."

Wait a minute....

[Anonymous Coward]

Does it run in my browser?

Just wait a couple more hours.

[Anonymous Coward]

Beta 3 should be out with the security fixes in just a couple of hours.

Re:no mention of my favorite bug

[Associate]

Wipe your other hand off and type with both hands.

Re:Copy & Paste sorted?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, because Linux is well known for its excellent clipboard support.

Bug-specific

[dmccarty]

Does anyone know what this bug means or what it solves?

New extension developer features: 310976 - Treat 1.5.* as 1.5.infinity.

(In this case, "inifinity" is 2,147,483,647 ;-)

Also, my favorite bug:

Linux-specific bugs: 287523 - [GTK] Insensitive (disabled) check/radio buttons can't be distinguished in some GTK themes.

I DON'T USE RADIO BUTTONS YOU INSENSITIVE, uh, oh wait nevermind.

Re:Memory hog?

[fool36]

I would love to see this cleared up. I am told that people don't normally leave a browser open for any extended period of time, but i do - and have to restart FF every 3 days or so.

I blame Microsoft for creating an OS that is now stable for days and even weeks at a time.