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Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available

Posted by Zonk on from the frabjous-day dept.

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.

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  1. P2P downloads: by J0nne · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the people using Windows:
    Gnutella, G2 and ed2k go here.
    torrent can be found here.

    1. Re:P2P downloads: by Seumas · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I realize that every individual has their own set of priorities and concerns with their browser, but that's exactly what's great about extensions. Put the necessary stuff in and leave the optional stuff optional. Keep the footprint small and avoid both bloat and insecurity in the process.

      I don't see a lot of things in the 3.0 roadmap that are questionable. Do you? They are things that will improve browsing in general and would be of most use to the most people with the least negative impact. This isn't like cramming ForecastFox into every installation by default or anything.

      In fact, I don't think you've read through the entire list because in most cases, they are simply improving current functionalities and interfaces. The footprint is already there. The functions and features largely already exist. Improving on them is a GOOD THING because you're squeezing more return out of the existing investment.

      The aim is for "Less than a 5.0 MB download on Windows".
      The current Win32 download is 4.98MB

      After all these modifications and improvements, where is this bloat you speak of? 4.98MB to 5.0MB is an increase of about 4/10ths of one percent.

  2. Using it now.. by bhsx · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. Pretty sweet by Hao+Wu · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Still doesn't pass the Acid 2 Test.

    Does anyone know why Safari passes, but no other browsers? (Perhaps the Acid just love Apple?)

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  4. I guess we need posts like these...... by 8127972 · · Score: 5, Funny

    .....To kill the time between Google posts.

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  5. Re:Where are the RPMs? by MarcQuadra · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's not Mozilla's job at all. Their job is to produce the best web browser, it's up to all the distribution maintainers to provide packages for thier flavors.

    Mozilla already invests a tremendous amount of time, effort, and money in maintaining a three-platform build farm http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=F irefox. Do you really want them spending their time trying to figuring out the nuances of the top five distributions as well?

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  6. Re:very nice by Martin+Blank · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  7. 1.5 RC3 and Final are the same by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

  8. new problems introduced by SuperBanana · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Highlights are: Automated update, drag and drop reordering for browser tabs, improvements to popup blocking, better accessibility and better support for Mac OS X

    Dark alley corners are:

    • Nightmarish cookie management. You can now search (which is nice), but you can't select more than one cookie at a time (the usual key modifiers do nothing). Hitting delete does nothing. I filed a bug about the selection thing and the answer was "oh well, next release, not going to make it for 1.5" Said bug was filed almost a month ago.
    • Select text in the URL-bar on the Macintosh. Hit the left arrow key, which should put you at the start of the block of text. But doen't- unlike the behavior in the text entry boxes on a webpage. WTF?
    • Every. Single. Time. You. Download. Something. You. Get. Asked. What. To. Do. Even. If. You. Checked. Do. This. Every. Time. ARRGGGGGGGG. Why can't it remember these preferences!?
    • Keyboard shortcuts randomly stop working. Command-W being the most obvious, as you go to close a tab or window...and nooooothing happens.
    • Plugin "security" is completely non-sensical. If I'm visiting a website of a plugin author, you're forced to navigate to the prefs panel and then go back and click the link again. Instead of blocking the installation of anything, why doesn't this do what IE does with DirectX controls and such, ie say "hey, this page WANTS to do this, SHOULD I let it?", with an option of "Yes please"? Instead we get "I blocked this. Just thought you'd like to know. Go here if you want to enable it." Especially since it encourages two very insecure things: a)permitting the entire hostname access b)permanently (since few users are likely to go BACK and DELETE the entry)

    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.

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  9. Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  10. RC3 and final are the same exact thing by mykmelez · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  11. Re:very nice by topical_surfactant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice job, dude. You may have just discovered why they call it a release candidate.

  12. Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... by greed · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  13. Re:Finally (pun) by cowboy76Spain · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awesome. I've been waiting for a while now for this to be finalized. I hate beta-testing or QA'ing software and not getting paid for it.

    That's why I'm still using Windows 3.11

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  14. Re:where to get Firefox by mykmelez · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hmm, it looks like Slashdot stripped the &lang from these URLs. The correct URLs (in HTML mode this time with me escaping the ampersands) to get Firefox 1.5 from our redirector (which has the most bandwidth and thus is the most likely to get you the file fast) are:

    Windows
    Mac OS X
    Linux
  15. Re:very nice by smartcat99s · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  16. Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dumbest post to be moderated as insightful ever!

    A file extension is no guarentee of the file type. How many emails with .scr extensions are actually screensavers?