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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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If I remember right, both Evolution and Firefox rely on GTK or Gnome libaries for the fonts & character sets. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Have you done any other updates recently?
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ltwally writes "Although not posted on the Mozilla website yet, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 is out. You can grab it here.
What exactly is wrong with waiting for the official announcement? Posting the link - and inciting a
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
It seems like most of the advances that Firefox made vs. IE have now been neutralized [snip] What new ideas/innovations are the Firefox team making these days to stand out in the browser wars?
Security.
Internet Explorer still is an ActiveX exploit away from wiping you files.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Despite all those features, as long as technical people can recommend firefox as a means to prevent spy/ad-ware to non-technical people it'll continue to spread.
Innovation is great, but adding features for the sake of adding features is what caused a lot of trouble for IE in the first place.
Am I open minded towards open source, or closed minded towards closed source?
"Is there really a browser war, or is this the megalomaniac in we geeks that says any open source project just has to kill, crush and conquer? Isn't this what makes Microsoft evil?" I don't know, I'd like to visit relatives without having to "fix" their computer.
Am I open minded towards open source, or closed minded towards closed source?
And they are even working on an amazing copy of the Web Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer, and some sort of GreaseMonkey userscript tool.
Well the best reason is of course to look cool and impress your family at birthday parties. A good second is MS-bashing, always fun.
For me, I love Firefox because
- I can start typing in a page and FIND things
- I can easily write userscripts for Greasemonkey to improve websites. For example on a forum I can keep my personal blacklist, reorder the page, detect trolls easily, etc.
- a very very easy search engine chooser built-in.
- a very clean RSS checker extension (Sage) without the need of nasty things.
As a developer:
- it actually gives meaningful errors, contrary to IE.
As a geek:
- the wonderful new toy called Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG), check out the amazing 'living; images at http://overstimulate.com/projects/canvas/
NOW a mod finally uses their mod points on me to mod this post down as troll, instead of using them on my other non-trollish posts??? Is all of Slashdot going to hell, or do we just have a bad batch of mods?
NO~, I read Slashdot because I think it's stupid.....
Did it occur to anyone that maybe the mozilla folks didn't feel ready to announce the release?? If they did, don't you think the announcement would have been added to their site?
Yeah, okay. Let's talk about personal responsibility here.
First, you don't have clue one how mozilla feels about it. If you did, you would have said so, and hopefully supported your claim. So your point is pretty much moot, since mozilla is perfectly capable of speaking for mozilla.
Second, if mozilla wants an announce before or when the release is made, they need to publish the announcement before or when the release is made. It would be completely unrealistic for mozilla to expect folks not to download and share free software posted to a publicly accessible server.
Third, mozilla is not prevented from officially announcing the release.
Fourth, it is easy to use your own reasoning to refute your point: Did it occur to you that if mozilla cared they could have taken any of the above actions? If they do, don't you think they would have done something about it?
The short of it: Slashdot simply is not about being fair.
Other things:
* Firefox attracts more geek attention with the possibility of making extensions, XUL, etc
* Opera has been flying below the radar using the wrong UserAgent by default, only now changed in the specs you link to, so apparently a very low percentage of webusers seems to be using it, while Firefox seems to have taken a serious part of the market. Campaign among Opera users to change that, and stats may change radically.
* if i read the specs you link to, many (not all) items are following what ff already did. Well actually they are very close. I like seeing they do Xpath, Canvas, and that they improve xmlhttprequest.
I also had problems with 1.5 and adblock, but turning off Adblock's 'Obj-Tabs' feature seemed to fix it.