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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. Only en-US so far... by iworm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The update, at the time of posting, is only available for en-US builds so far. Now I know that that's all that matters, but if you're running RC1 non-en-US then the update might be a little time away yet.

    Perchance that's why it's not been publicised yet, and further perchance that's what the poster or editors might have noticed? Sorry, dreaming there for a moment...

  2. advancements/innovation? by xikzantric · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems like most of the advances that Firefox made vs. IE have now been neutralized (popup blocking, tabbed browsing, etc.). What new ideas/innovations are the Firefox team making these days to stand out in the browser wars?

    1. Re:advancements/innovation? by Ythan · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I think extension support is the single most significant feature of Firefox. Sure you can add functionality to IE but it's not as easy as packaging up some Javascript. This extensibility lets Firefox support new and unimagined features without adding bloat. It wouldn't surprise me if IE moves in this direction eventually just to stay competitive.

    2. Re:advancements/innovation? by rizole · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Are you on crack? Just check out these babies and then come back and talk to me about innovation:

      Bork Bork Bork

      Eggon

      Firesomething

      It's not just about tabs and security you know. Firefox extends and enhances my productivity and gives me extra functionality, functionality that makes my co-workers all go "Ooooohhhhhh...that's so coool! Show me how to do that"
      In an increasingly technologically savvy and cynical workforce (our admin is incompetent and an asshole) I'm re-introducing a sense of wonderment in technology by showing my colleagues how to find out what the weather is doing right now without compromising the pile of shite that is our network.
      Back in the day, all this PC, IT, WWW stuff was new, exciting and compelling. There were problems but this was a new fronter and most of us seemed to want to make it a nice place to be.
      Things have moved on, grown up and become less romantic but for me and my colleagues firefox is reinvigorating the interest in computing and giving us all a little frisson of excitement. We can play without getting fucked.
      And if we can play without getting fucked that means that we can learn and grow.
      I'm sorry that my stance is so idealised and romanicised but the innovation and ideas that are coming out of the firefox team is to provide me and my friends and colleagues with a product that does not allow bad people to violate our growth and health.

  3. Re:YEAH by WiFiBro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For what purpose? Would XUL be cool?
    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/

  4. Re:Hooray, SVG support! by ReinoutS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's strange. Last time I checked, OO.o2 Writer couldn't import SVG images, which I found very annoying. But Draw can export them?!

  5. Adblock Extension by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have been unable to get the Adblock Extension working under any of the 1.5 version releases till now. Any ideas??

  6. Re:Fire--- by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except that I use GNOME all day, and have for years. There are occasional little bugs, like all the software that irritates me. This font bug happens not to occur in Mozilla. It's irritating in Evolution. But certainly not enough to make me switch my entire environment. Especially Evolution - switching to KDE won't make Evolution work any better, as Evo will continue to use the GNOME libraries. As usual, the solution to a cosmetic bug is to reconfig or fix it, not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

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  7. Re:Try Aethera. by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "So many problems"? I've got exactly one problem, which I work around, which emerged recently, which I expect to solve shortly, through upgrade or otherwise. I assure you that I'm facing no productivity decrease from it. You're obviously just cheering for your preferred app. Which means you're ignoring whatever bugs your app has - that any app has. Not exactly a reliable opinion to motivate my switching my entire desktop environment.

    If you're able to do such a switch yourself on that kind of basis, you're probably not very productive yourself, regardless of your rate - I mean real amounts of production, which I produce voluminously and to great profit, thank you.

    Really, if you want people to be receptive to your advice, you've got to offer just the helpful insights, and skip the patronizing insults to our own insights and experience.

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  8. Firefox 1.5-- and FUD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It turns out that it's not just Firefox 1.5 that's available today-- the powers-that-be at my work decided it was also a good day to release some FUD. The mandate came down that we had to remove Firefox after our IT department sent out this email:

    "Some browsers are open source and thus advertised as free, but they are not without cost. For example, there are security issues because the developers focus more on functionality than on security for this type of software. Firefox is a good example - it has gained in popularity over the last year so that now it is a target of hackers and writers of viruses. Several magazine articles have recently documented the security concerns with Firefox compared to IE. Firefox did not fare well."

  9. Download Resuming by ThePeices · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One feature id really like to see firefox support is download resuming. Adding Getright-like features to the download manager would be a great feature. There isnt even an extention available to do this....

  10. New 'save link as ' sucks. by barnaby · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Linux the GTK only filepicker (right click -> save page/link as) is awful
    (IMO). Forcing this change on every Linux user because some folks at red
    hat think it is a good idea to more fully comply with Gnome is awful.

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3188 60&highlight=filepicker

    How about giving those of us that have been using Mozilla for five years a
    pref to use the XUL filepicker that we are used to?

    I save upwards of 20 files a day and am very used to the defaults the way
    they are.

    I'm staying with Firefox 1.0.x at this point.

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  11. Re:Does it fix the friggin' clipboard bug? by DarkEdgeX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, this happens to me as well. I usually do Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy from the address bar to an open chat window in another application, and sometimes it will, for seemingly no reason, not work. Sometimes I'll even try Ctrl+X (cut), and sure enough, when I do this the text disappears from the address bar (indicating it recognized the cut operation), but it still won't paste! Just to verify it's not the chat app but Firefox, I open Notepad and still can't paste.

    Oddly, if I beat the unholy shit out of Ctrl+C it will, sometimes, eventually work. Sometimes.

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  12. Re:Firefox 1.5rc2 is nearly ready to be announced by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hmmms, I'm using 1.5RC1, but I can't use Help->Check for updates (it's greyed out, in settings everything on, but Firefox is greyed out too). Where should be problem? (Linux, install in home directory with rights to delete, update for extensions works well).