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."

Comments

Much faster, Plugins are updated, Source

[tronicum]

I tried RC1 and now I swichted at my work PC to RC3, too. It checks if your plugins are working and gets you the latest updates (in my case adblock+ and pdf download). Compared to the 1.4 debian package it renders pages much faster, but (at least with Linux) the font rendering changed a bit. Even this textarea text is now smoothed (a bit to much for my taste) but I enoy the speed.

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).

Re:A bit late :P

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Update now popup is too forceful

[Southpaw018]

I believe this was addressed as part of the RC2 to RC3 update in the "Background tab steals foreground focus" bug.

Re:Yea but...

[mlefevre]

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.

Re:Update now popup is too forceful

[Pieroxy]

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.

Re:Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[dolphinling]

To quote Asa Dotzler,

For those wondering why this is called Firefox 1.5 and not Firefox 1.5 RC2, it's because this is a genuine release candidate. The build you have, if no problems are found, will be Firefox 1.5. If we called it RC2 in the actual client, it wouldn't be a real release candidate because we'd have to make changes to the name and then create new builds.