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Firefox 1.5 RC1 Released
jgaynor writes "The Firefox team took another step towards version 1.5 this morning as it made public release candidate 1 of it's popular browser. Users running 1.5 beta should have already received notice via an automated update dialogue box. New features include improved Pop-up blocking, enhanced automated update, better OS X support and faster back and forward page navigation buttons. A full list of features can be found in the release notes as well as the downloaded page." My copy is 24 seconds away from downloaded ;)
I hope the new release makes it easier to get the java plugin working in RH9 or FC[34]. I've tried a number of different documented procedures with 1.0.6 and have never been able to get it working.
Help > Check for updates
Yeah, right. For me, it keeps downloading and installing the 1.5 beta 2 over and over!
Kudos to the Firefox team. My web browser notified me of this update and it was automatically applied without a hitch.
With bug 275519 "[Mac] Support Command+Option+Arrows for tab switching (like Camino)" they decided to drop support for ctrl+tab under Mac OS X. As it's now a RC let me give you a how-to to reenable ctrl+tab. I hope it's easier in the final release (copied from my comment in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27551 9).
1) Quit Firefox
2) Go to Firefox.app, Choose Show Package Contents (my Finder show the german
text so I can only guess what's the wording in english) and go to
Contents/MacOS/chrome/
3) Backup toolkit.jar and rename it to toolkit.zip
4) unpack toolkit.zip and go to content/global/bindings/
5) open tabbrowser.xml
6) Replace (in line 1977 in my file)
this.mTabBox.handleCtrlTab = !/Mac/.test(navigator.platform);
with
this.mTabBox.handleCtrlTab = true;
7) Create an archive of the content folder
8) Rename it to toolkit.jar
9) You can now use ctrl+tab again
b4n
If you can't find a newer version of the extension use this extension to enable it.
b uildid/nightly.html
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/
~Freyr
I had that too (though not all people do). Download and run the rc1 installer from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ That should fix things.
Watch your extensions, some seem to not work with latest release. For me, Forecastfox and IE View.... Yes, you can modify the extension to make it work, but it's a bit of a pain and later on seemed to give me problems...
Dies not pass acid 2, however, they ain't the only ones. That company in Redmond has issues too.
Gorkman
If anyone's curious, here's the changelog from 1.5 Beta 2:
:-moz-read-only and :-moz-read-write pseudoclasses.
New browser features
* 313529 - Support importing home pages from (some) other browsers and multiple versions of Firefox Start.
* 220590 - [Mac] Delete (backspace) key should go back on Mac, too.
New web developer features
* 302188 - Support
* 230909 - Make the dom.max_script_run_time pref work. (This pref controls the "this script is running slowly" dialog.)
New extension developer features
Nothing new since Firefox 1.5 Beta 2.
Notable bug fixes
* 313300 - Change default for browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction from 0 to 2. (Make "Force links that open new windows to open in... new tabs" not apply to window.open with specified width, height, or other features.)
* 312527 - Need to reduce padding for bookmark menu items.
* 245418 - Menus and contextual menus open on wrong screen when using dual screens.
* 312227 - Not able to type in textbox of the main window after download completes.
* 309027 - Saving image does not open the save location window sometimes.
* Many reliability fixes for software update.
* 284474 - Converting to UTF-8 a url with an unescaped non-ASCII chars in the query part leads to an incompaitbilty with most server-side programs. (Fixed by backing out the change for 261929, Send urls in UTF-8 by default (images/links with non-ASCII chacters not displayed).)
* 245392 - Installer options for shortcuts don't work (update/install adds unwanted icons to desktop/quick launch, creates empty folder in start menu).
* 282750 - Extremely slow scrolling of ESPN.com.
* 310825 - window.focus() in a background tab can steal focus from foreground tab.
"A week in the lab saves an hour in the library"
If 1.5RC1 doesn't solve this issue, I highly recommend installing Flashblock, which ensures no Flash executes unless you specifically click on it. For these "hidden" Flash animations, you can never click on them, so no more popups for you.
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
Worked on all of my home machines well - choked to death on my work machine. Here's a nice screen:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jgaynor/images/ff.bmp
Google shows others (if only a few) have had this issue with older moz builds.
IE7 won't be released until Windows Vista is released (late next year). Firefox 1.5 is coming out this year, and Firefox 2.0 is supposed to come out sometime next year (followed by a 3.0 even I think [???]). I know Ben Goodger has posted and/or linked to roadmaps in the past.. ahha, here it is--
t ml
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.h
So yeah, I think the Firefox crew has some time to add in these new IE7 features (at least the ones that make sense) without having to worry too much.
All I know about Bush is I had a good job when Clinton was president.
You can get the tab preview feature in Firefox through the following extension: (compatible with FFox 1.5RC1)/ index.html
h §ion=A
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview
As for phishing, check out these extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/quicksearch.php?q=phis
IE has not innovated in a very long time while other have been trying hard to innovate to just get through the market leader-ship barrier that IE has put. It's going to be very challenging for the IE team to introduce any feature that would be outside the "catch-up" with other browser features. I'm glad to see that IE is going to introduce nifty features from all over the place, nonetheless.
I wish Firefox added more cutting edge stuff.
Dude, what plant are you smoking? I'm pretty sure it was Firefox who came up with tabbed browsing, extensibility for custom applications, integrated pop-up blocking, and many other 'cutting edge' features. Microsoft is just playing catch up with most of these!
I concede that the visual display of tab content you describe does sound like nothing Firefox currently offers (that is, I conceded without having searched through the thousands of available Firefox extensions). But in any case, I don't think your statement above can be uttered with a straight face.
HA HA HA HA HA, like Opera wasn't there ages before FF!
Global warming is a cube.
It's possible I misunderstood you, but I think the problem may be that the SVG image itself is specifying the size. Look at the element and see if the width/height are being specified. Ideally, the <svg> element should state width="100%" and height="100%". Then this should allow the user agent to properly scale the SVG image inside an <object> tag by specifying the <object>'s width/height. However if the <svg> element specifies width="400px", then maybe you're stuck because the author of the SVG has stated the width is 400 pixels, end of story.
I can't remember what the behavior of the SVG or HTML spec say with respect to this when conflicts occur... Specs like CDF will help to clarify some of these issues.
Something Witty Goes Here
"Dude, what plant are you smoking? I'm pretty sure it was Firefox who came up with tabbed browsing, extensibility for custom applications, integrated pop-up blocking, and many other 'cutting edge' features. "
They were not the first for any of those 3 items you mentioned. Firefox was just playing catchup to other programs out there. It's just that they implemented them properly and all in one application.
Until Adblock can work with RC1...
I'm using both Adblock 0.5.2.039 and the Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.2.6, both with no problems or issues (that I can tell.)
AFAIK, updating has usually been under the help menu. For instance, take a look at iTunes and Adobe.
1. go to google.com
2. right-click the search input box
3. select "add a keyword for this search..."
4. type Name: "Google", Keyword: "g", Create In: "Quick Searches"
5. type "g KEYWORDS" or "g 2+2" in the address bar
6. optionally, use toolbar customization to remove the extra search box.
Set up a quick search for google then.
Create a new bookmark, enter:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%25s
for the location, and a short keyword... like "gg"
Then when you go into the address bar, just type "gg search terms"
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
Someone on here suggested the Nightly Tester Tools Extension to force old extensions to work. I found it to be a lifesaver and works with just about every extension I've tried.
http://www.popularculturegaming.com -- my blog about the culture of videogame players
The account that is running the firefox process needs to have administrator rights on the computer to preform updates.
These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based upon the order I joined. -Homer Simpson
I've also released a test version of Portable Firefox based on the new release for anyone that would like it portable... or anyone that wants to try it out without messing with their local profile or Profile Manager.
/ deer_park/
Portable Firefox: Deer Park 1.5 RC1:
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox
For the unfamiliar, Portable Firefox allows you to carry your whole web browser along with all your bookmarks and extensions with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. It is a repackaged version of the popular Mozilla Firefox browser designed with portability in mind, so it has all the same great features of Firefox, but there's nothing to install.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
The default adblock version does work to block ads, but clicking the Adblock button in the lower right shows nothing, and should show all the blockable elements. There's a new dev build (0.5.2.054) at the Adblock Forums which seems to work better for me with Firefox 1.5rc1.
I tried the "Help | Check for updates" option. It downloaded the update and prompted me to restart Firefox. I did, but FF wasn't updated. I tried 2 or 3 times to update it through Firefox's new update feature, all to no avail. I finally downloaded the full installer, and I'm now (finally) running Firefox 1.5RC1.
w00t?
I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
I don't think I'd want all those things in a browser. Then again, since there's rather more to CAD than the graphics (which is a tiny portion of any serious CAD package), I don't think I'll stress over my job writing libraries used in CAD software just yet.
What will be cool about SVG, assuming it works in practice, is having all those CGI scripts that do simple database look-ups able to render simple but effective graphical representations, rather than just displaying data in ugly and/or unhelpful tabular text formats. As long as major sites don't do a Flash with it (must... make... everything... use... cool... new... feature) and stick to the same niches where things like Flash are actually useful (presenting graphical data where this actually enhances the user's experience) this should be great.
Once the browser with 90% market share supports it too, of course. ;-)
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.