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.
Oooh! Features! (Score:3, Interesting)
Apart from the troll. Props to the firefox team. Keep up the good work!
Adolfo
Couldn't wait for the official releas? (Score:4, Interesting)
Pretty sweet (Score:5, Interesting)
Does anyone know why Safari passes, but no other browsers? (Perhaps the Acid just love Apple?)
1.5 RC3 and Final are the same (Score:5, Interesting)
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c - Firefox Setup 1.5.exe
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c - Firefox Setup 1.5rc3.exe
Drag and drop reordering bug (Score:5, Interesting)
No it's not! (Score:2, Interesting)
MozillaZine Forums [mozillazine.org]
Big red letters, you can't miss it: Firefox1.5 is not yet out
new problems introduced (Score:5, Interesting)
Dark alley corners are:
That's all that I can think of right off the top of my head- but the cookie and URL bar problems are driving me nuts.
Re:Pop ups - use NoScript (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Thank God... (Score:3, Interesting)
Good example from nature: not long ago in a lab in VA, an airborn strain of Ebola was discovered killing off the lab monkeys. The virus was confirmed to be airborn, confirmed to be killing the monkeys, and confirmed to have infected humans working with the monkeys, and show to be spreading fast (as airborn viruses tend to be). Why didn't people die in vast numbers?
Genetic diversity.
The airborn strain of Ebola only killed one species of monkey.
I hope IE never goes away, nor FF, nor Opera, nor Safari. Diversity (OS, browsers, etc) is the best defense.
Re:new problems introduced (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Mirrors? That's soooo 2002 (Score:2, Interesting)
There are already torrents available for it, but thats not the real reason. Not everyone has bittorrent installed or knows how to use it, so until bittorrent becomes a more widely accepted protocol for downloading, methinks HTTP and FTP will be around for awhile.
Re:Pop ups. (Score:3, Interesting)
I've even tried completely wiping out my config and seeing stuff w/ default settings. Uhg! I still get pops, but I also get those annoying plugin install notices (which, I've turned off)
So, fresh install, fresh configs.. pops galore.
Re:new problems introduced (Score:4, Interesting)
- The Reload button randomly disappearing on occasion.
- When I switch from one app to FF by clicking on the FF window, if I click into a text area (like the one I'm typing in now) the text area does not have focus. This pains me to no end because if I copy something from another window and then click on the FF window, I have to basically click the textarea twice in order to copy the contents into it. Bah.
Yeah, they have a ways to go with the OS X support.
Re:Using it now.. (Score:3, Interesting)
aaaaaaah!!
I hate that about opera. Good god, I really hope there's going to be something in there that allows you to turn that off. Btw, does anyone know how to turn that off in Opera? It's just so much nicer for browsing... you know, lots of pictures.
Is the Memory Leak fixed yet? (Score:3, Interesting)
I was hoping this bug that's been around for a long time would have been resolved earlier on. I don't have a lot of motivation to try out this new version to see if it's been resolved.
Re:ACID2, anyone? (Score:2, Interesting)
IE7 is also not slated to pass at RTM, although the developers claim it will soon afterwards.
Acid2 is overrated, in any case. If you actually read the documentation on Acid2 [webstandards.org], it's a list of wants from web designers. A good target, but compared with security an usability is not on the top of the list for needs in the browsers of the future.
c'mon firefox! (Score:2, Interesting)
I always dread upgrading FF. Half my extensions always break. Can't FF standardize on some kind of extension format that is forward compatible? Even IE doesn't break when upgrading.
"The following components are not compatible with the new version of Firefox you have just installed:"
FirecastFox 0.5.8
Google Toolbar for Firefox 1.0.20051012
Tab Clicking Options 0.4.1
ieview 1.2.2
Super DragAndGo 0.2.4
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.1.1
Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 2.82
Fasterfox 0.7.8
User Agent Switcher 0.6.1
They have been disabled until compatible versions are installed.
To Firefox's credit, the only ones that were still broken after updating them all were Super DragAndGo, Tabbrowser preferences, and User Agent Switcher. Uggh.
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Re:CPU and memory hogging bug in Firefox 1.5? (Score:3, Interesting)
I reverted back the previous version pretty quickly. This one isn't finished baking yet.
Re:c'mon firefox! (Score:1, Interesting)
Firefox should have an option to force compatibility without having to hack this shit up.
Re:SVG? (Score:1, Interesting)
Animation isn't supported and most of the events (keyXXX)
aren't supported.
Needs a bit of work IMHO
Cheersm
Ben
Re:CPU and memory hogging bug in Firefox 1.5? (Score:2, Interesting)
Is this an attempt at a troll or are you just a yes man that likes agreeing with people? Maybe you're not aware that there is no difference between RC3 and 1.5 final. If you check the install files you will see that they even have the same MD5sum. So you didn't "upgrade" from RC3 to 1.5 at all and in light of that your comments on the relative stability of the two versions seem somewhat suspect.