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

Update now popup is too forceful

[LiquidCoooled]

I was in the middle of typing a posting and this thing popped up taking away focus.
Didn't have full time to check, but hitting return would/could have started the update process off without informed consent.

I realise they want to get it updated, but I think the new regime is just a bit too forceful - it should be on application startup and not checking whilst I'm browsing.

Re:Update now popup is too forceful

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Why do we care?

[TheZeusJuice]

Not to be a troll or anything, but why does slashdot deam every minor release of Firefox to be worthy of a story? Its no different from any other OSS. And also, anyone who uses Firefox would notice and know what the little green upward-pointing arrow on the upper-right-hand corner means.

Re:Why do we care?

[dep01]

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.

Re:Why do we care?

[Jesus 2.0]

Not to be a troll or anything, but why does slashdot deam every minor release of Firefox to be worthy of a story? Its no different from any other OSS.

You just answered your own question. Slashdot deems every minor release of every OSS thing to be incredible breaking news.

I can't count the number of times I've seen front page Slashdot posts that essentially boil down to:

ThingYouNeverHeardOf 0.6.3 Released

Slashdot user Doofus reports that ThingYouNeverHeardOf 0.6.3 has been released. Many cool new features in this version, such as the blarglefier tool no longer causing a crash when run under Ubuntu 4.6. Licensed under the GPL! Is this the end for Microsoft?

Half the time, they never even give you a hint as to what ThingYouNeverHeardOf is supposed to be used for. Is it an email client? Is it an IDE? Is it a MIDI playback library? Does it cook my eggs? Who knows.

Re:This Is Was On Digg.com Yesterday

[Bullfish]

So, this happens on sites all over the net. News is disseminated instantly over a large number of sites instantaneously. What makes slashdot good are the users who make good comments. You want a better site, quit whining and do that. The commentary is why I come here and digg's is not that good. Tech news I can get almost anywhere.

As for politics, more and more it is impacting the nerds of world due to nervous politicians and evil content companies pressuring them. We would be remiss to ignore it.

This thread is for FF RC3. I got mine automatically yesterday with no hitches. Considering how the last time I got an upgrade message it flopped about four times, this was an improvement.

has been just been released

[thebdj]

has been just been released

I hear the new RC has a grammar and spell check that automatically fixes slashdot before it loads...