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Firefox 1.5 RC2 Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-close-you-can-taste-it dept.

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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  1. What exactly is wrong... by sczimme · · Score: 3, Insightful


    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 /.ing - seems like a rude gesture toward an organization techies generally profess to love. 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? (Despite the summary, it appears that 1.5 RC2 was actually there yesterday (09 Nov).)

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    1. Re:What exactly is wrong... by Miphnik · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The official announcement many of us have already received is Firefox updating itself with the new release. Not much point in keeping it quiet if the Mozilla folks have already released it!

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  2. Re:advancements/innovation? by zulux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Re:advancements/innovation? by sedyn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Re:advancements/innovation? by WiFiBro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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/

  5. Re:YEAH by robfoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I also had problems with 1.5 and adblock, but turning off Adblock's 'Obj-Tabs' feature seemed to fix it.