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Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available
yootje writes "Firefox 1.5 is out, you can download it right here: Linux; Mac; Windows. You can find more info about it in the release notes. Highlights are: Automated update, drag and drop reordering for browser tabs, improvements to popup blocking, better accessibility and better support for Mac OS X. Don't forget to make full use of the mirrors." It's semi-official.
You would think that they could build packages for at least the most popular linux package management systems. Wonder how long til this shows up on the DAG repository...
For the people using Windows:
Gnutella, G2 and ed2k go here.
torrent can be found here.
Yes. The GPG signature is from today, and their have been no additions to the tree since it was locked down. Oh, and that thread on Spreadfirefox is mine! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/20564
I have nothing clever to put here...
Normally this means the server is sending the file as some binary format, file extensions don't matter. Try this Ubuntu torrent which works for me.
These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based upon the order I joined. -Homer Simpson
It seems very nice so far. I'd been using RC3 for a few days now. All extensions carried over for me, although I had to reset my Tabbed Browser Preferences.
One of the nicest new features is the "Unable to Load" page that comes up instead of the alert that interupted your browsing, even while in another tab, on the older versions.
Some of the rumorous new tab features haven't made it in so far, which is a shame. They're supposed to make tabs work more like Opera: Close tab returns to previous tab, and close box on each tab, as well as cleaning up the text in tabs. Oh well, overall very nice though.
put the what in the where?
No, RC3 is just a release candidate. They haven't updated the pages because it's not officially out yet (check mozilla.org, newest is "1.0.7" according to that), however, the FTP directory for Firefox has 1.5 final (which usually means that the offical release for Firefox 1.5 is the next day, so it will probably be out tomorrow or later this week).
Do you remember the 3D FPS game demo using the canvas tag found in FireFox 1.5, I think this is a sign of things to come, and offers a good alternative to XAML support in IE7.
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RC3 build string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Release build string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
RC3 MD5 hash:
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c
Release MD5 hash:
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c
RC3 SHA1 hash:
fb6bed8635ff06e76cfde326e8dc5776b4efdb66
Release SHA1 hash:
fb6bed8635ff06e76cfde326e8dc5776b4efdb66
They would appear to be the same thing.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
See previous discusions about firefox and Acid2. Mainly it involves making serious changes to the Gecko layout engine. The changes were to risky for the 1.5 Firefox release. From the roadmaps it does not look like Firefox 2.0 will pass either.
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Does anyone know why Safari passes, but no other browsers?/ 1336223&tid=121&tid=106this story.
Konquerer does with KDE 3.5 released today. Check out http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/29
This can happen for two reasons.
(1) the server uses content-disposition: attachment. In this case, the server is arguably telling the browser "do not open this file automatically". I'm not sure why Firefox cares that the server says that, though. See bug 236541.
(2) the server uses content-type: application/octet-stream. In this case, I think it's a browser bug. I'm not sure this still happens.
You might be able to tell which it is using web-sniffer.net or LiveHTTPHeaders.
The shareholder is always right.
It's a sneaky Javascipt trick (which I won't go into in case it gives someone else ideas), and seems to be coming only from a.tribalfusion.com for me, so blackhole that in your /etc/hosts file and the annoying popups and pop-unders will disappear completely.
Come on guys, give us 64 bits! Do we dare risk a build from source?
This is my sig.
Please do *NOT* download it from ftp.mozilla.org. Please instead use our redirector, which has a lot more bandwidth:
o s=win&lang=en-USo s=osx&lang=en-USo s=linux&lang=en-US
o x/releases/1.5/
Windows: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.5&
Mac OS X: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.5&
Linux: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.5&
Or, if you need a different language, get it from releases.mozilla.org, which doesn't have as much bandwidth as the redirector but still has *much* more than ftp.mozilla.org:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef
I checked, the torrented file hash matches that in MD5SUMS. Should be OK (unless the NSA is trying to hax0r everyone)
What he meant is the HTTP server isn't configured to send torrents with application/x-bittorrent as the Content-Type. Instead, it sends them as a generic application/octet-stream or worse text/plain which Firefox doesn't know what to do with.
Note that Firefox 1.5 RC3 is the exact same as Firefox 1.5 down to every last bit. So if you already have RC3, you already have the final release. You don't need to download it again.
Why? Well, because RC3 was the last release candidate, and having the last release candidate be exactly the same as the final release is the best way to ensure that all the testing the release candidate gets definitely applies to the final. Otherwise we would have run the risk of any change, no matter how minor, introducing a problem that we didn't foresee.
So they're the same. Right down to the user agent string, the version number, etc. Do an md5sum on both files, and you'll get the same values. You get my drift.
Wait for your distro to have a binary to download or build from source and apply the patch.
These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based upon the order I joined. -Homer Simpson
Looking at my extensions folder:
The only compatible extensions I have installed are Linkification (which takes "h##p://www.boo.com" links and makes them clickable, even if the "http" part has been munged) and Flashblock, which is a godsend.
I just clicked "Find Updates", and not a single one of the plugins has an update available yet. I'm sorry, but I think it's pretty clear that a large number of popular extensions have yet to be updated for 1.5. I also really hope all my extensions don't break yet AGAIN with 1.6, because that'd be at least #3.
Please help metamoderate.
browse to the url "about:mozilla"
OK, but for case (1) ("Content-disposition: attachment"), you've still asked FF to save it to disk automatically. In particular, it SHOULD NOT ask "Do you want to save this?". Ever.
Even if there isn't "; filename=" on the Content-disposition header, you can guess at one by removing the last path element of the request URI. FireFox already asks for filenames much less often than Mozilla, so I don't want to see a filename request, either.
I have heard that manually adding an "application/binary" entry in Helper Applications will prevent that; apparently, FireFox and Mozilla don't actually save the choice you just made for that MIME type.
I think I did it on at least one of my machines, and have since forgotten if I did and/or if it worked. Which isn't very helpful... but Safari saves without prompting just fine.
I'm a big fan of native browser support of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).
For those unfamiliar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG
Essentially it is a W3C standard xml based replacement for Flash animations and vector graphics.
Inline SVG support holds great promise for being able to make some really nice user interfaces.
Does anyone know why Safari passes, but no other browsers?
Someone got annoyed that Safari did not pass and wrote patches to fix it. The KHTML team ported those patches so they also now pass the Acid2 test. Other developers have worked on fixing Gecko so that Firefox passes, but the changes required are fairly radical so they have thus far refrained from implementing them since they are afraid of breaking things. The IE team does not give a rat's ass about old standards, let alone newer ones or edge cases and will likely never pass. So to answer your question, because the Safari/KHTML codebase is neat and because someone felt like fixing it.
So I just upped to 1.5 and Flash objects were not painting.
I have Adblock 0.5.2.039, the latest. So go into Extensions, Adblock, Options and uncheck Obj-Tabs.
Seems to get rid of the block tabs, otherwise it works fine.
It fails, as does Opera, and, even more miserably, IE. See a comparison screenshot.
You can still put IE Inside (tm). See IE Tab extension. I know I do, but only for those Websites that suck.
SHA1SUMS:e808d54200625d5ace427cd050a3f4b913be106a
SHA1SUMS-1.5:7437c6a351787ec8762e598ae1852e22bcca
grep dmg SHA1SUMS* | grep en-US
SHA1SUMS:32788c106884477013303b730dcfa11714b1f538
SHA1SUMS-1.5:32788c106884477013303b730dcfa11714b1
but that's never true. Virtually all software ships with known issues and bugs.
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
If you are using SUSE 10 on x86 machine,
R PMS.suse-projects/MozillaFirefox-1.4.99-3.1.i586.r pm
I believe you can use this RPM:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/
It may be slightly "newer" than the actual release as it is 20051120 build rather than the "official" 20051111, but I believe it is safe to use this until a final RPM comes out.
as the RPM is named 1.4.99 rather than 1.5, there would be no problem upgrading to the official build later.
Personally, I wish they'd whitelist javascript the same as they whitelist pop-ups.
In the meantime, just grab the NoScript extension and do it yourself.
FireFox 1.5, filled with extensionable goodness!
Meaning you may well want to hold off until there is an official release, or until extension writers get a chance to catch up.
I had this "bug" too. I turned off Greasemonkey and the problem was solved. Guess we have to wait for the next version of Greasemonkey
They'd already more-or-less frozen the rendering engine for 1.5 when Acid2 was released in early April. Remember, this was originally planned for a midsummer release as Firefox 1.1. All the Acid2-related work is going on in Gecko 1.9 which will probably form the basis of Firefox 2.0. (Firefox 1.0 used Gecko 1.7, and Firefox 1.5 uses Gecko 1.8.)
Opera was in similar straits, even though they basically wrote the test -- they were just putting the finishing touches on Opera 8.0, which came out barely a week later. Of course, that means they started a new development cycle just afterward, and in-house versions of Opera are reportedly very close to passing.
Opera 9 and Firefox 2.0 are likely to pass Acid2 along with Safari 2.0.2, iCab 3 (if they ever release a final version), and Konqueror 4.0 (or does 3.5 include the fixes?) IE7 almost certainly will not. IE8? Who knows?
No matter WHAT. You plain can't see any flash with adblock on, no matter that the flash content is not blocked. Torturous for people buried in flash constructions...
rhY
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
From http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:1.1_Product_Team:
FIREFOX 1.5 RC3
Firefox 1.5 RC3 was released on 2005-11-17.
If no showstopper issues are identified with this build, it will be released as Firefox 1.5 (Final)
This is the 3rd Release Candidate (RC3) for Firefox 1.5, addressing any regressions or other bugs uncovered in the 2nd Release Candidate (RC2). It is officially branded as Firefox 1.5 and has been released to the community for testing and quality checking. It is of production quality and is also a final opportunity for Extension, Theme, l10n and web application developers to finalize their support for Firefox 1.5 before final release.
Randomly refuses to respond to keyboard input (Can be worked around by Hiding and Unhiding Firefox)
Randomly refuses to respond to mouse scroll events.
Sometimes will refuse to respond to being clicked on until you click on the Dock icon first.
I'm going back to the previous version.
Mmmm.. Donuts
A fully patched IE6 under XP SP2 doesn't go by the extension anymore, FYI.
A quick Google of svg clipart produces the Open ClipArt Library.
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.
Mac Mini with 512 MB RAM running 10.4.3 and it runs just about perfectly -- nice and fast. I do find the text selection does not work properly on occasion, ie. selecting and dragging the text oftens occurs in the wrong direction. On the plus side, Citrix works fine while it does not work for me in Safari. I like the ability to re-order tabs and the tab behavior controls are much more comprehensive then Safari, but I will miss the Flashblock plugin as it does not work (yet) with 1.5 or later (any release candidate).
I found Firefox 1.3 sluggish but 1.5 is swift, so I am switching to Firefox from Safari for now.
The release notes at http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5 -comprehensive.html say that bug "131456 - Memory use does not go down after closing tabs" has been fixed.
/ libc.html as an example (try loading and closing it into a multiple tabs a few times and look at your virtual memory utilization or the about:cache built-in page) he was berated by a developer for reporting a problem with a website and not the memory leak the website triggers!
However if you read the bug text you can see that this years old bug has been closed only because, in the eyes of one developer, perpetually increasing memory usage is only a symptom of a memory leak, not the cause. Presumably users should only report problems for which fixes already exist.
Developers explain that the cause of the problem is actually due to several underlying hard bugs, so a "meta bug" like this one should not be open. Separate bugs should be filed instead on all of the undisclosed problems.
Users were also haranged over and over into providing specific test cases for the general problem. Amusingly, when one user suggested using http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono
See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169676&cid=141 43632 about bug 131456
dating from 2002. The developers got tired of hearing about it and closed it as "RESOLVED".
I especially like it when memory cache size goes 10x above the maximum memory cache size you have set on the browser "about:cache" page.
1.0.7 was working flawlessly for me. I updated to 1.5, and now it seems, there are many different situations where the browser will appear to "lock-up" for several seconds at a time and using 100% cpu utilization. Has anyone else experienced this?
.xyz files to open with XYZ_Application, I should be able to configure the web browser to open the file with the application, regardless of what MIME type the webserver may claim it is supposed to be.
Also, still noticably missing, is the ability to tell the browser to over-ride the preferences of the webserver in terms of mime type vs. file extension. If I want
sigh... I guess it is still better than the alternatives...
I guess with this release, I'm almost as disgruntled as when I "upgraded" from netscape 3.x to the 4.x "communicator" bullshit... I can't complain too much, it is free afterall...
Here take a look at this svg demo.