Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available 646
yootje writes "Firefox 1.5 is out, you can download it right here: Linux; Mac; Windows. You can find more info about it in the release notes. Highlights are: Automated update, drag and drop reordering for browser tabs, improvements to popup blocking, better accessibility and better support for Mac OS X. Don't forget to make full use of the mirrors." It's semi-official.
Where are the RPMs? (Score:4, Informative)
P2P downloads: (Score:5, Informative)
Gnutella, G2 and ed2k go here [freebase.be].
torrent can be found here [thepiratebay.org].
Re:very nice (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Informative)
Using it now.. (Score:5, Informative)
One of the nicest new features is the "Unable to Load" page that comes up instead of the alert that interupted your browsing, even while in another tab, on the older versions.
Some of the rumorous new tab features haven't made it in so far, which is a shame. They're supposed to make tabs work more like Opera: Close tab returns to previous tab, and close box on each tab, as well as cleaning up the text in tabs. Oh well, overall very nice though.
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Canvas tag support is a great feature (Score:2, Informative)
Re:very nice (Score:5, Informative)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Release build string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
RC3 MD5 hash:
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c
Release MD5 hash:
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c
RC3 SHA1 hash:
fb6bed8635ff06e76cfde326e8dc5776b4efdb66
Release SHA1 hash:
fb6bed8635ff06e76cfde326e8dc5776b4efdb66
They would appear to be the same thing.
Re:Pretty sweet (Score:5, Informative)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167091&cid=13
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=148742&cid
Re:Pretty sweet (Score:4, Informative)
Konquerer does with KDE 3.5 released today. Check out http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/29
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Informative)
(1) the server uses content-disposition: attachment. In this case, the server is arguably telling the browser "do not open this file automatically". I'm not sure why Firefox cares that the server says that, though. See bug 236541.
(2) the server uses content-type: application/octet-stream. In this case, I think it's a browser bug. I'm not sure this still happens.
You might be able to tell which it is using web-sniffer.net [web-sniffer.net] or LiveHTTPHeaders [mozdev.org].
Re:Pop ups. (Score:3, Informative)
Wither AMD64 Version? (Score:3, Informative)
where to get Firefox (Score:4, Informative)
Windows: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.5&
Mac OS X: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.5&
Linux: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.5&
Or, if you need a different language, get it from releases.mozilla.org, which doesn't have as much bandwidth as the redirector but still has *much* more than ftp.mozilla.org:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef
Torrent is safe. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Informative)
RC3 and final are the same exact thing (Score:5, Informative)
Why? Well, because RC3 was the last release candidate, and having the last release candidate be exactly the same as the final release is the best way to ensure that all the testing the release candidate gets definitely applies to the final. Otherwise we would have run the risk of any change, no matter how minor, introducing a problem that we didn't foresee.
So they're the same. Right down to the user agent string, the version number, etc. Do an md5sum on both files, and you'll get the same values. You get my drift.
Re:Drag and drop reordering bug (Score:4, Informative)
Wait for your distro to have a binary to download or build from source and apply the patch.
8 out of 10 not compatible here (Score:3, Informative)
Looking at my extensions folder:
The only compatible extensions I have installed are Linkification (which takes "h##p://www.boo.com" links and makes them clickable, even if the "http" part has been munged) and Flashblock, which is a godsend.
I just clicked "Find Updates", and not a single one of the plugins has an update available yet. I'm sorry, but I think it's pretty clear that a large number of popular extensions have yet to be updated for 1.5. I also really hope all my extensions don't break yet AGAIN with 1.6, because that'd be at least #3.
Re:Halleujah! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Informative)
OK, but for case (1) ("Content-disposition: attachment"), you've still asked FF to save it to disk automatically. In particular, it SHOULD NOT ask "Do you want to save this?". Ever.
Even if there isn't "; filename=" on the Content-disposition header, you can guess at one by removing the last path element of the request URI. FireFox already asks for filenames much less often than Mozilla, so I don't want to see a filename request, either.
I have heard that manually adding an "application/binary" entry in Helper Applications will prevent that; apparently, FireFox and Mozilla don't actually save the choice you just made for that MIME type.
I think I did it on at least one of my machines, and have since forgotten if I did and/or if it worked. Which isn't very helpful... but Safari saves without prompting just fine.
Re:SVG (Score:3, Informative)
For those unfamiliar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG [wikipedia.org]
Essentially it is a W3C standard xml based replacement for Flash animations and vector graphics.
Inline SVG support holds great promise for being able to make some really nice user interfaces.
Re:Pretty sweet (Score:5, Informative)
Does anyone know why Safari passes, but no other browsers?
Someone got annoyed that Safari did not pass and wrote patches to fix it. The KHTML team ported those patches so they also now pass the Acid2 test. Other developers have worked on fixing Gecko so that Firefox passes, but the changes required are fairly radical so they have thus far refrained from implementing them since they are afraid of breaking things. The IE team does not give a rat's ass about old standards, let alone newer ones or edge cases and will likely never pass. So to answer your question, because the Safari/KHTML codebase is neat and because someone felt like fixing it.
Flash Problem Resolution (Score:2, Informative)
I have Adblock 0.5.2.039, the latest. So go into Extensions, Adblock, Options and uncheck Obj-Tabs.
Seems to get rid of the block tabs, otherwise it works fine.
Re:ACID2, anyone? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Thank God... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:very nice (Score:3, Informative)
SHA1SUMS:e808d54200625d5ace427cd050a3f4b913be106a
SHA1SUMS-1.5:7437c6a351787ec8762e598ae1852e22bcca
grep dmg SHA1SUMS* | grep en-US
SHA1SUMS:32788c106884477013303b730dcfa11714b1f538
SHA1SUMS-1.5:32788c106884477013303b730dcfa11714b1
Re:very nice (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Brilliant. (Score:3, Informative)
If you are using SUSE 10 on x86 (Score:2, Informative)
I believe you can use this RPM:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/
It may be slightly "newer" than the actual release as it is 20051120 build rather than the "official" 20051111, but I believe it is safe to use this until a final RPM comes out.
as the RPM is named 1.4.99 rather than 1.5, there would be no problem upgrading to the official build later.
Get the NoScript extension. (Score:4, Informative)
In the meantime, just grab the NoScript extension and do it yourself.
FireFox 1.5, filled with extensionable goodness!
Many extensions don't work (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I still have a bug (Score:2, Informative)
Re:ACID2, anyone? (Score:4, Informative)
Opera was in similar straits, even though they basically wrote the test -- they were just putting the finishing touches on Opera 8.0, which came out barely a week later. Of course, that means they started a new development cycle just afterward, and in-house versions of Opera are reportedly very close [opera.com] to passing.
Opera 9 and Firefox 2.0 are likely to pass Acid2 along with Safari 2.0.2, iCab 3 (if they ever release a final version), and Konqueror 4.0 (or does 3.5 include the fixes?) IE7 almost certainly will not. IE8? Who knows?
Re:where to get Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
Hmm, it looks like Slashdot stripped the &lang from these URLs. The correct URLs (in HTML mode this time with me escaping the ampersands) to get Firefox 1.5 from our redirector (which has the most bandwidth and thus is the most likely to get you the file fast) are:
Windows [mozilla.org]Mac OS X [mozilla.org]
Linux [mozilla.org]
Hidden Flash content with adblock on..... (Score:2, Informative)
rhY
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Re:very nice (Score:5, Informative)
FIREFOX 1.5 RC3
Firefox 1.5 RC3 was released on 2005-11-17.
If no showstopper issues are identified with this build, it will be released as Firefox 1.5 (Final)
This is the 3rd Release Candidate (RC3) for Firefox 1.5, addressing any regressions or other bugs uncovered in the 2nd Release Candidate (RC2). It is officially branded as Firefox 1.5 and has been released to the community for testing and quality checking. It is of production quality and is also a final opportunity for Extension, Theme, l10n and web application developers to finalize their support for Firefox 1.5 before final release.
Re:Mac OS X review (Score:3, Informative)
Randomly refuses to respond to mouse scroll events.
Sometimes will refuse to respond to being clicked on until you click on the Dock icon first.
I'm going back to the previous version.
Re:P2P downloads: (Score:2, Informative)
(And no, FasterFox doesn't make FF render pages at the speeds of IE or Opera).
Re:8 out of 10 not compatible here (Score:2, Informative)
These extensions also give the message: "Disabled, not compatible with Firefox 1.5"
Wish I would have waited a couple of weeks before I upgraded.
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:SVG? (Score:4, Informative)
No problems here... (Score:3, Informative)
I found Firefox 1.3 sluggish but 1.5 is swift, so I am switching to Firefox from Safari for now.
Re:CPU and memory hogging in Firefox 1.5 is far wo (Score:2, Informative)
However if you read the bug text you can see that this years old bug has been closed only because, in the eyes of one developer, perpetually increasing memory usage is only a symptom of a memory leak, not the cause. Presumably users should only report problems for which fixes already exist.
Developers explain that the cause of the problem is actually due to several underlying hard bugs, so a "meta bug" like this one should not be open. Separate bugs should be filed instead on all of the undisclosed problems.
Users were also haranged over and over into providing specific test cases for the general problem. Amusingly, when one user suggested using http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono
Re:CPU and memory hogging bug in Firefox 1.5? (Score:2, Informative)
dating from 2002. The developers got tired of hearing about it and closed it as "RESOLVED".
I especially like it when memory cache size goes 10x above the maximum memory cache size you have set on the browser "about:cache" page.
I regret "upgrading" to 1.5 (Score:1, Informative)
Also, still noticably missing, is the ability to tell the browser to over-ride the preferences of the webserver in terms of mime type vs. file extension. If I want
sigh... I guess it is still better than the alternatives...
I guess with this release, I'm almost as disgruntled as when I "upgraded" from netscape 3.x to the 4.x "communicator" bullshit... I can't complain too much, it is free afterall...
Re:SVG? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Wither AMD64 Version? (Score:1, Informative)
c++ -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align - Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -pedantic -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -fPIC -shared -Wl,-h -Wl,libmozz.so -o libmozz.so adler32.o compress.o crc32.o deflate.o gzio.o infback.o inffast.o inflate.o inftrees.o trees.o uncompr.o zutil.o -ldl -lm
It sounds like the build failed at zlib. Firefox bundles it's own version of zlib, primarily for Windows since it's not a standard library there. You can use the configure flag to force it to use your own (64-bit enabled) instead. BTW, you should be using a
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Re:Many extensions don't work (Score:1, Informative)
There should be warnings about problems like these, that are likely to crop up, so people will know what to expect before downloading. Transparency usually is a good thing.