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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3 Released
Jasper Bryant-Greene writes "It doesn't look like the official website has updated yet, but Firefox 1.5 RC3 has been just been released. MozillaZine has the scoop."
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You're a bit late. :P
If you're running any of the 1.5 release candidates you might have automatically downloaded the latest incremental update a while ago, and hit 1.5 proper.
I got updated to 1.5RC3 a few days ago (probably around when you submitted the article...) and tonight I got bumped up to 1.5. I think they must be releasing via the auto update first to stagger the release load...
Good work Mozilla. I can't wait to see the source to look if they cleaned it up yeat. Last time I built mozilla from scratch is was filled with switches which where not supported for ages (like native qt support).
look under your help->about dialog, 20051111 is the build date at the very bottom for rc3
No. It may say "Firefox 1.5" in the About box, but it is one of RC2 or RC3 at this point. It doesn't say "RC" in the version string because then it would not, in fact, be a candidate for release; they would have to change the version string and rebuild.
Mozilla are doing thing The Right Way, which is rare these days. They even follow the proper definition of Alpha & Beta, which is even rarer.
They fixed the drag-and-drop crashes I was seeing all the time in RC1/2. It was getting really annoying having the browser lockup all the time whenever I accidentally dragged a tab or some text.
I believe this was addressed as part of the RC2 to RC3 update in the "Background tab steals foreground focus" bug.
ACs are modded -6. I don't read you, I don't mod you, I don't see you. Don't like it? Don't be a coward.
They haven't officially announced a date, but they are expecting to release 1.5 final by the end of this month. But of course it depends on feedback from testing RC3, sorting out the publicity stuff, localisations, etc etc.
You don't count twice in that 100 million my friend. If you are getting your updates via the update server (as any good 1.5 user should be) you aren't counted. If you go to getfirefox.com and download from the same IP address as before, you don't count. I am sure there are some duplicates, but I highly doubt it is any kind of problem like you are wanting to make it out to be.
Unstable Apps: Our Android Apps Don't Suck
1. Updates aren't counted
2. Download.com, Google, and other mirrors aren't counted
3. Bundled installations (IE with a Linux distribution) aren't counted.
4. Some single downloads are installed many times in offices etc.
5. FTP, apt-get, etc. aren't counted
Only people who go to mozilla.org and download from there are counted.
The worst one is when you're downloading some stuff with IE. Hopefully this happens only once per windows install (when you download Firefox).
IE is downloading its stuff in windows temp folder. If you are unlucky and decided to save the file in another drive, at the end of the download it will move the file to wherever you wanted it. The move dialog then pops up and the selected button is... Cancel !!!
So if you happen to press Space or Enter at that time, you are in fact cancelling your download.
Just plain insane.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
To quote Asa Dotzler,
There are 11 types of people in the world: those who can count in binary, and those who can't.
Actually, the dialog doesn't pop up. It's there the entire time and always has the cancel button. So the chances of that happening are pretty much zero unless you alt-tab to it and press enter - which is hard to do accidentally. The text in the download window changes to tell you it's moving the file, but it's the same dialog and it doesn't pop up or focus itself. Just tried it in IE 6 to make sure.
Gnome stops windows from stealing focus, when they want focus they just start glowing very lightly in the window bar. I would think OS X has a similar feature.
Regards,
Steve
Gnome is really nice in this matter. Not even IM windows (I'm using skype) can't steal the focus. They just blink in the taskbar. Open source can do things really nice sometimes, and Ubuntu and its components is one of those examples.
I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow...
TweakUI says it will, but it doesn't really work. Apps continue to steal focus left and right.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
How great of both TFA and the Firefox 1.5 "What's New" page to not mention the Unofficial Firefox 1.5 RC3 changelog from The Burning Edge.
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
RC3 has now been linked on the main Mozilla.org page. Please use the regular download page instead of the link in the article so that a mirror can be chosen instead of hammering that one site.
You want Fasterfox for this:
Block Popups:
A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.
Fasterfox
fak3r.com
Second the HTML specs do not say exactly how things should be rendered. This bug is open because it is some people are saying "I think the spec should work like this" where the spec does not absolute.
There isn't any serious disagreement over what the HTML spec says here. The reason it hasn't been fixed yet is that fixing it requires fixing bug 228673, which is in a fragile part of Mozilla's code (XUL layout) whose original authors have probably left the project. I see a patch and "[reflow-refactor]" in 228673, so it (and the tooltip problem it causes) will probably be fixed early in the Gecko 1.9 cycle for Firefox 3.0.
The shareholder is always right.