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."

Nice.

[illtron]

Can anybody remind me what the name of the extension is that lets you use your other extensions? I can't stand that it won't let you use them by default until they've been updated.

Copy & Paste sorted?

[LiquidCoooled]

1.5 suffers from some serious C&P bug in windows where it won't let me use the clipboard under various circumstances.

anyone know if its been rectified?

So what's new

[Cardinal Biggles]

Forgive my ignorance. I have not yet looked into what Firefox 1.5 is all about.

Why no 1.1 - 1.4 ? What's the major-but-not-major-enough-for-a-2.0 newness in this?

The changelog only lists the changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2 which is not very informative.

Flash fixed?

[NineNine]

Could anybody using this please tell me if they've fixed the (currently non-working) ability to disable all Flash? In IE, I just uninstall the Active X control. In Firefox, you can disable it, but it doesn't work. I certainly hope that they're fixing bugs before adding more features...

Re:Incremental Update

[dumdumdum]

Yes incremental update does actually work. If you skip an update or 2, at the time of update it will download all those incremental updates on after the other. If the total size of updates is greate than some specified value it will download the full update

Re:Nice.

[nogginthenog]

I've had luck unzipping the extension, changing the version number in the XML file and re-zipping.

Re:So what's new

[Anonymous Coward]

Try scrolling down to the bottom of the change log. It includes a link to the change log for the previous version.

They've got to sort this out before the final

[tritonic]

I'm looking forward to the new version as much as anyone, but I do have some concerns about the amount of unfixed bugs in the codebase. How does a bug like Bug 115174 get overlooked for three and a half years? A quote from the comments:

...the form may be being sumbitted again when "Save Page As, HTML Only" is selected. What really concerns me about this is that, on a less smart web page, a user's payment may be submitted twice, when all the user wanted to do was save a copy of the payment receipt. This is more than just annoyance, it could cause people's checks to bounce unexpectedly.

I know this has happened to several people (me included - luckily I managed to cancel the transaction in time). Surely the mozilla guys have a responsibility to fix this one...?

Memory hog?

[Antifuse]

Have they at least fixed the problem where if you use Windows FF in a "one window" mode (tabbed browsing, all new windows in new tabs instead) and leave it open for a couple days, the memory never seems to get released? That's my only real quibble with Firefox (and it doesn't prevent me from using it, I just have to shut down FFox every morning when I get to work and restart it). It's kinda concerning to have one tab open, look into process explorer and see the FF is using 180mb of RAM.

newsreader?

[timeOday]

Is Mozilla's usnet news reader being updated at all? I'm still using the "suite." They still have it on their website, but I can't tell if the browser is kept up to date with firefox, and if the newsreader is updated at all.

Automatic update, in a few days?

[amrust]

I just now tried to force a manual update (using Beta 1 now), and it won't update. Why would waiting for the incrimental automatic update to kick in work in a few days, if asking manually right now will not?

Maybe they don't have the Beta 2 on the server that autoupdate looks at, or something. Probably to avoid congestion?