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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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    "hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
  4. 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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    dinosaur comics
  5. 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.