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Firefox 1.5 RC2 Available
ltwally writes "Although not posted on the Mozilla website yet, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 is out. You can grab it here. As of right now, it is available for Linux (i686), Mac OS X and Windows. Happy updating!"
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It will automagically do the update (after asking you first). Mine did about 3 hours ago.
My Help->About still says plain old 1.5, however.
How come my Firefox installs on Ubuntu 5.10 contain weirdly illegible text? Like some kind of greyed/stippled Sanskrit characters. When I select (highlight) the text, or scroll it (by line) off then on the visible window area, becomes legibile. This started happening in Evolution, too. Not Mozilla or other apps. It started with my dist-upgrade to Ubuntu 5.10. I can't find any reference to others with this problem on the Web. What's going on?
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No clue. I havent had any update download notices since RC2 hit just about five minutes ago.
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Modify your shortcut: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1
If you're running RC1 already, the posted links have .MAR files available to perform an update without redownloading the entire binary. Windows users should be careful because .MAR is associated with Microsoft Access in Office 2003 (maybe earlier versions but this is all I checked with). Anyway, info on how to update with .MAR files is here:
Manually Installing a MAR File
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It is a bug in RC1 - the only "what's new" entry for RC2 is "several fixes to automated update system". I was getting the same thing on Beta 2 for RC1 - I eventually uninstalled Beta2 to install RC1 fresh.
1 .5.html
The transition from RC1 to RC2 was smooth, however.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/
[DISCLAIMER: This post is a work of satire and should not be misconstrued as a holy text upon which to base a religion.]
There is nothing wrong for people updating from 1.5-beta or 1.5-RC1 as the update is only around 360Kb.
Its probabably preferable for moz.org to let as many people grab the tiny update before anouncing the availablility of the 5Mb full installer.
When 1.5 goes gold however, you will have a very valid point, because I know that _I_ will be replacing my existing Firefox Setup 1.5 Beta 1.exe with the final version.
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It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Fuck Beta
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* Fixed: 314241 - "Report broken web site" toolbar button is broken when using "small icons".
* Fixed: 313490 - Enable IDN for .org.
* Fixed: 313894 - Reporter chrome is registered twice.
* Fixed: 313360 - Profile locking doesn't work if the profile is located on a FAT partition.
* Fixed: 314754 - "Extension compatibility updates" check never completes.
* Fixed: 314684 - Endless update loop from firefox 1.5 beta2 to 1.5 rc1 if 1.0.x was ever installed
* Fixed: 312777 - Negative margins cause floated elements to be placed to the right of incorrect earlier boxes (since March 2005).
* Fixed: 312363 - document.write into iframe results in broken-lock icon
* WFM: 314484 - Firefox 1.5 RC1 topcrash [@ 0xffffff4d] [@ js_GC]
* Fixed: 309044 - Flashplayer 8 "Bad NPObject as private data!"
* Fixed: 314258 - ExtensionItemUpdater:checkForDone: Failure in listener's onAddonUpdateEnded.
* Fixed: 315017 - [Linux] Undetermined progressmeter doesn't work.
* Fixed: A few potential security holes.
* Fixed: 313414 - Add a way to do "sandboxed" http connections that don't modify the cookie list.
* Fixed: 314465 - Implement a non-copyingCompareUTF8toUTF16.
* Fixed: 263042 - Ship both autocomplete impls with the new-toolkit
* Fixed: 264308 - Implement DOM Level 3 UserData API.
* Fixed: 314218 - New version of JEP (0.9.5+a), please land on trunk and branch.
* Fixed: 147670 - Wrong (last or empty) tooltip text displayed for dropdown list menu items.
* Fixed: 226094 - Support JavaScript Core for WinXP AMD64.
* Fixed: 314549 - Various bugs involving containers not actually fixed for subframes.
* Fixed: 312036 - History.dat contains entries deleted from the "date and site" view.
* Fixed: Several fixes for specific DHTML performance tests.
* Fixed: 312804 - No longer shows loading-image.gif when loading images
* Fixed: 309706 - Stack overflow crash [@ jpinscp.dll + 0xaa87] (since Sept 22).
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Yes to me that was the most noticable change. Especially the first time you run it is very fast. They also worked on the speed of going forward and backward.
Why hasnt anyone posted this yet?
FF rc2 @ mozilla
Under Windows XP, Firefox has become my browser of unchoice, because it's clipboard functionality is totally borked. I posted to bugzilla, and saw that about a million other people have too.
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Debunked, but still a common misconception.
You're not being very clear. What do you need those languages for exactly?
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To work on the page, the xpath thingy is amazingly strong, for example (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/authoring.html).
And AJAX is quite fun, with the xmlhttpRequest method.
Did you see SVG for making 'living' scriptable images? http://overstimulate.com/projects/canvas/
I cannot imagine PHP has much value on the userside, especially with security in mind.
Check this project though:http://www.moztips.com/wiki/index.pcgi?pag
The Firefox 1.5rc2 release is nearly ready to be announced. When it is, we'll update our website to point you to the installer files with links that use our load balancer. A note: going to our FTP site directly will hammer all mirrors evenly which is bad for those smaller mirrors that aren't as bandwidth-laden as our bigger mirrors.
If you can't wait for your Firefox 1.5rc2 fix, though, feel free to download Firefox 1.5b2 or 1.5rc1 and then use software update (Help -> Check for Updates...) to grab the 1.5rc2 update. The updates for both to 1.5rc2 are less than a meg!
Chase, the build/release guy at Mozilla
Have you tried Inkscape?
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memory problems
I haven't seen any memory leaks since I upgraded to 1.5. Normally if I leave Firefox
pointing to a page that refreshes often, the memory will swell to 150MB on my Windows box within 24 hours.
But I haven't seen that problem with 1.5.
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http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1 .5.html
XForms and SVG!
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Do you pay any attention? The new 1.5 Firefox has binary updates, eliminated that problem all together.
Well it doesn't seem to work with the w3c's svg test suite....
What are they doing? With 1.5...
1. Improved the rendering engine (through Gecko)
2. Better tab behaviour (drag and drop placement, better default behaviour)
3. New faster updates that don't require a reinstall
4. SVG support
And more, but I can't remember every big change from the changelog at the moment. Don't forget that this is a minor release, not a major release. It's mostly refining and improving features from 1.0. You can expect bigger changes in 2.0. With any luck, 2.0 will be out in time to greet IE 7.
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For a really cool use of SVG (it uses png if SVG isn't available), check this out. That is pure javascript/css/html.
Regards,
Steve
Not really, but it eats noticeably less RAM
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
From the release notes:
"New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6".
Isn't enough?
If you are using a Beta version (and not a Release Candidate), then it checks on the Beta/Dev branches, which means that it has a news version (new build) pretty much every day.
Try doing this: go to the config page (type about:config in the address bar), then search for "app.update" and set the values:
app.update.channel to release app.update.url to https://aus2.mozilla.org/update/1/%PRODUCT%/%VEThat should do the trick and grab the updates from the Release files (aka stable branch) instead of the beta/dev files
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
Just in case some don't know, in the upcoming IE 7, ActiveX is at least now an opt-in feature.
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" It seems like most of the advances that Firefox made vs. IE have now been neutralized "
Most? Most? I think not. After three years of complete stagnation IE has come within 50 or 60% of the features of firefox I rely on daily. These come immediately into mind.
Find as you type, mouse gestures, flashblock, adblock, live bookmarks, nuke anything (great for printing!), web developer, foxylicious, and of course bork bork bork!.
Whenever I am forced to use IE I feel like somebody tied my hands behind my back.
evil is as evil does
... and it just now gets posted on Slashdot?
Why all the fuss about Release Candidate #2... with some minor bug fixes, when Opera released a technical preview of their next generation browser, Opera 9.0/Merlin?
Sometimes I wonder if Mozilla has been putting some of their advertising dollars at work here...
Portable Firefox has been updated to the 1.5 RC2 release. For the unfamiliar, Portable Firefox allows you to carry your whole web browser along with all your bookmarks and extensions with you on a USB thumbdrive, iPod, 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 Firefox designed with portability in mind, so it has all the same great features, but there's nothing to install.
Portable Firefox 1.5 RC2
And if you're a fan of the portable apps, Portable Gaim 1.5 Beta was released to day, as was Portable Apps Suite, a preconfigured suite of portable applications including Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, NVU, OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, FileZilla and Gaim.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
IANAMD (I am not a Mozilla developer), but I assume there is no RC2 in the version string because for once they are actually adhering to the meaning of "release candidate". If they find no show-stopping bugs in this build, the exact same file you just downloaded will be rechristened "Firefox 1.5". If they had to change anything (even the version string), it wasn't technically a "candidate for release".
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Something that happens automatically, but on whose mechanism the speaker doesn't want to elaborate, either because it is trivially obvious, or exasperatingly complex.
More than mere navel gazing.
Sure, not a problem. For more cool javascript stuff checkout:
Some more demos from dojo (the editor one is neat, after you select your toolbars, it lets you edit the text of the page on the fly.
Another site, OpenRico, has a neat javascript library. The link takes you to their live grid which updates in realtime through AJAX, but above the grid you'll see their other demos that you can click to view.
Here is another site, ActiveWidgets, their 1.0 version is just a very customizable grid that can be made to look like anything from an excel spreadsheet to a listing of files in a directory (look at the examples linked to from their front page). If you scroll down on this page you'll see links to examples for their 2.0 beta. Check out all 3, you can make your website essentially appear like a native WinXP dialogue (I think that is WinXP, I run Fedora though).
Keep in mind all of this is in javascript/css/html, its also all opensource (you can search for other projects like these, a notable site is scriptaculous). Its really neat to see javascript finally being used to its full potential, web apps should get really interesting in the next few years.
Regards,
Steve