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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the getting-close-now dept.

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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  1. Yea but... by MtViewGuy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any news about when will the Mozilla Foundation release the final version? Hopefully, it will be around the first two weeks of December 2005.

  2. Another RC already? by the+computer+guy+nex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I love FireFox as much as the next guy but we need to stop bragging about "100 million downloads !!!" when a new version is out every few weeks.

  3. Unknown upgrade by at_18 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My firefox prompted me a few hours ago about an "important upgrade", which I did. But it didn't say what this upgrade was about, and therefore I don't know if I'm running RC3 or not. It would be nice to know what has been downloaded.

  4. Re:Why do we care? by dep01 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I love firefox.... and slashdot.... but good point, actually. "News for Nerds. Stuff that MATTERS." -- Does another RC matter? Not a whole heck of a lot. Tell me when Firefox 1.5 final is out.. Enough of the RC updates.

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  5. old bug still not fixed by potaz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And the truncating title text bug that arbitrarily drops information from websites still hasn't been fixed. It's now five years old! Hooray!

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45375

    I think Moz is a great project, but I use Opera because things like this are allowed to linger for um, half a decade, instead of being fixed.

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  6. Bugs solved from RC2 by darteaga · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/200 5/11/17/15rc3-available/

    Notice that RC will be the final version if there are no new bugs.

  7. Re:Update now popup is too forceful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was in the middle of typing a posting and this thing popped up taking away focus.

    Actually this is very common behaviour in most Windows (and to a certain extent OSX) apps. I don't know how many times I've been typing away in App A, when App B decides it needs to throw up some stupid dialog right when I'm pressing the key, leading to me wondering WTF I just said ok to. This is a general design flaw in many/most windowing systems today as they assume that the user tends not to multitask much, which may be true for many/most, but certainly not true for me.

  8. Parent is not a troll! by Kiaser+Wilhelm+II · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is serious. I have the same issues, up to 1.5 rc2 and the 1.0.x series.

    I just upgraded tp rc3 but its too early to tell if that was fixed.

    The parent should be modded up - this is a LONGSTANDING issue that has not gotten any attention.

    I have 1GB of RAM (FF usually peaks at about 160MB for me before I restart it) so I dont care that much, but I know lots of users on lo-mem systems who are highly annoyed by this behavior and switched to Opera. I think this kind of thing should be a high priority critical/major bug and receive attention ASAP.

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