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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.
Drag and drop reordering of tabs? Like Opera version a "couple of them ago"? :-P
Apart from the troll. Props to the firefox team. Keep up the good work!
Adolfo
Yeah, the download is available. But it hasn't been officially released yet. Come on people! Let's make the launch a nice event by downloading it then! I wanted to post the exact same thing but didn't because after so much hard work on the part of the Firefox Team, I don't mind waiting a few hours to make their release a huge success. And no, I'm not going to download it until it's officially announced. That's my little way of helping to recognize the official launch.
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
Does anyone know why Safari passes, but no other browsers? (Perhaps the Acid just love Apple?)
I suggest you read Slashdot
If you already have Firefox 1.5 RC3 installed, don't bother with this. It's the exact same file, the md5 sums are even the same:
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c - Firefox Setup 1.5.exe
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c - Firefox Setup 1.5rc3.exe
The downside of "drag and drop reordering" is that accidental dragging of the current tab to the current page causes 100% CPU utilization for several seconds, the page is reloaded and the form entries are lost without a warning. Observed with Firefox 1.5 RC1 and RC2 on Linux.
MozillaZine Forums
Big red letters, you can't miss it: Firefox1.5 is not yet out
Dark alley corners are:
That's all that I can think of right off the top of my head- but the cookie and URL bar problems are driving me nuts.
Please help metamoderate.
I use NoScript now -- basically a whitelist of what sites can and can't use javascript, flash or java. For me, it's solved the popup problem entirely.
Actually, having one browser used universally everywhere, whether its FF, IE, Opera, etc., is more of a security threat. Diversity is the best time-tested defense against viruses as well as the best way to insure survival.
Good example from nature: not long ago in a lab in VA, an airborn strain of Ebola was discovered killing off the lab monkeys. The virus was confirmed to be airborn, confirmed to be killing the monkeys, and confirmed to have infected humans working with the monkeys, and show to be spreading fast (as airborn viruses tend to be). Why didn't people die in vast numbers?
Genetic diversity.
The airborn strain of Ebola only killed one species of monkey.
I hope IE never goes away, nor FF, nor Opera, nor Safari. Diversity (OS, browsers, etc) is the best defense.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
Seriously, why wouldn't they distribute it using a bit torrent?
There are already torrents available for it, but thats not the real reason. Not everyone has bittorrent installed or knows how to use it, so until bittorrent becomes a more widely accepted protocol for downloading, methinks HTTP and FTP will be around for awhile.
I've even tried completely wiping out my config and seeing stuff w/ default settings. Uhg! I still get pops, but I also get those annoying plugin install notices (which, I've turned off)
So, fresh install, fresh configs.. pops galore.
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
"Close tab returns to previous tab"
aaaaaaah!!
I hate that about opera. Good god, I really hope there's going to be something in there that allows you to turn that off. Btw, does anyone know how to turn that off in Opera? It's just so much nicer for browsing... you know, lots of pictures.
Have they fixed the memory leak yet? This is the biggest thing that's turned me off to FireFox. I reboot my computer about once every two months and in that time FireFox stays open. After a while I noticed FireFox is not properly releasing the memory it uses. 400MB of RAM was used above normal and FireFox was only claiming 120MB of it; closing down FireFox released all 400MBs of RAM. This is a normal thing and IMHO is not acceptible. FireFox's FAQ lists some 3rd party utility that keeps track of windows and tabs and restores them when the program is started up again. Another forum member suggested reducing the allowable cache size; this hasn't worked either.
I was hoping this bug that's been around for a long time would have been resolved earlier on. I don't have a lot of motivation to try out this new version to see if it's been resolved.
IE7 is also not slated to pass at RTM, although the developers claim it will soon afterwards.
Acid2 is overrated, in any case. If you actually read the documentation on Acid2, it's a list of wants from web designers. A good target, but compared with security an usability is not on the top of the list for needs in the browsers of the future.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
I always dread upgrading FF. Half my extensions always break. Can't FF standardize on some kind of extension format that is forward compatible? Even IE doesn't break when upgrading.
"The following components are not compatible with the new version of Firefox you have just installed:"
FirecastFox 0.5.8
Google Toolbar for Firefox 1.0.20051012
Tab Clicking Options 0.4.1
ieview 1.2.2
Super DragAndGo 0.2.4
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.1.1
Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 2.82
Fasterfox 0.7.8
User Agent Switcher 0.6.1
They have been disabled until compatible versions are installed.
To Firefox's credit, the only ones that were still broken after updating them all were Super DragAndGo, Tabbrowser preferences, and User Agent Switcher. Uggh.
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640YB ought to be enough for anybody.
I don't get massive CPU use, I get a big obnoxious grey bar at the bottom that cuts my display area for webpages by 1/3, and I can't get rid of the darn thing with any of the options it has. Apparently it doesn't like my dual display setup. Its buggy on either display, either graphics card. Of course, its still there when I disable the other display, so may just not like the graphics card period.
I reverted back the previous version pretty quickly. This one isn't finished baking yet.
Freedom is merely privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all.
Firefox 1.5RC3 supports SVG but barely.
Animation isn't supported and most of the events (keyXXX)
aren't supported.
Needs a bit of work IMHO
Cheersm
Ben
I'm getting this now, too. I _thought_ RC3 was stable, but I can't keep 1.5 up for more than 1/2 hour or so before it pins the CPU (winXP).
Is this an attempt at a troll or are you just a yes man that likes agreeing with people? Maybe you're not aware that there is no difference between RC3 and 1.5 final. If you check the install files you will see that they even have the same MD5sum. So you didn't "upgrade" from RC3 to 1.5 at all and in light of that your comments on the relative stability of the two versions seem somewhat suspect.