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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.
No clue. I havent had any update download notices since RC2 hit just about five minutes ago.
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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?
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
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...
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 (popup blocking, tabbed browsing, etc.). What new ideas/innovations are the Firefox team making these days to stand out in the browser wars?
And perhaps you should ask on the Ubuntu forums? We're not really technical here, we just pretend to be ;)
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
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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Unbuntu does all their debugging in sanskrit.
And the heiroplyphics for configuration...
Double-Click here for instant highlight.
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.]
* 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).
Working in a DevOps shop is like playing in a band made up entirely of keytarists.
Now I can embed SVG images into my pages. Exported from OpenOffice Draw, of course. "This site best viewed with a modern browser. Get Firefox 1.5 now, you Neanderthal!"
You spoiled kids. Links is all you really need.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
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
For what purpose? Would XUL be cool?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/
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.
O lord, bless this thy holy hand grenade, that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.
Debunked, but still a common misconception.
I have been unable to get the Adblock Extension working under any of the 1.5 version releases till now. Any ideas??
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
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1 .5.html
What could Sony possibly have to do with this? Oh wait, just came across something called $sys$firefox_install...
/me runs as sharp objects are hurled in my direction
Do you pay any attention? The new 1.5 Firefox has binary updates, eliminated that problem all together.
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
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
... 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...
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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"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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I also had problems with 1.5 and adblock, but turning off Adblock's 'Obj-Tabs' feature seemed to fix it.
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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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....
In Linux the GTK only filepicker (right click -> save page/link as) is awful
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(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=318
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.
Barnaby
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
How about the Acid2 test? Does it improve on it's performance in that area? With browsers like Safari and Konquerer passing it, are there any real efforts at Mozilla to get some standard compliance in that area?
No released version of Safari passes it. I think what's happened is that the development team announced that they hope to pass it soon, but because you are wearing the rose tinted glasses that come free with every Mac, you have misinterpreted that statement as "Safari passes it!".
Hope this helps.