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."

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Feature request

[Hard_Code]

Yes, this is the wrong place to post this but I'm going to do it anyway.

Since pre-1.0, Firefox has had a bug whereby sometimes typing in the search field completely locks up the machine (I believe by spiking the CPU). I believe this happens on both Windows and Linux, although I am mostly using a Windows desktop so notice it more there. I can't seem to find some criteria to reproduce it. It seems random. It locks the machine (all applications unresponsive as well as OS control sequences) for about 5-15 seconds at a time.

As for a feature request, I tend to be very strict about cookies, which unfortunately means that I am forced to endlessly click through "do you want this cookie?" "huh?" "how about now?" "how about this cookie?" "you wanna cookie?" dialogs. It would be really cool if these could be queued to some docked pane which allowed the site to load asynchronously. Unless a site is doing something really funky with frames or javascript, it shouldn't expect to immediately receive a cookie it just sent, so in the majority of cases I don't think these requests actually have to be acknowledged before the page is rendered (or simply block any pending pages - in the case of no frameset, say, 95% of the time - this will mean totally asynchronous rendering).

Question from a Hockey fan

[rynix]

Is there anyone out there who is creating torrents of the hockey games yet ?