Firefox 1.5 Released

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Chris Vogel
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Firefox 1.5 Released

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The Mozilla Corporation have uploaded Firefox 1.5. They should soon announce the release officially.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/

Yes, they skipped some numbers.

I personally think this is a big release, and I can’t wait to try it! You can see a detailed list of bug fixes by visiting these changelogs. (The changelog for 1.5 isn’t there yet. Reading all the changelogs after 1.0.4 should be just as informative.)

Anyway, here are what I consider to be the most exciting bug fixes (from the changelogs):<ul><li>278531 - Generic request prioritization (loadgroup prioritization) (e.g. for each HTTP host, load images with lower priority than pages).</li><li>216466 - Use error pages instead of dialogs for e.g. HTTP networking errors.</li><li>298293 - Fast back and forward (bfcache).</li><li>179656 - Allow drag-and-drop reordering of tabs.</li><li>305642 - Turn on bsdiff-based binary updates so that future security updates to Firefox can be half a megabyte or smaller.</li><li>222654 - global/scrollbars.css for native scrollbars different on Mac (many Firefox themes break scrollbars on Mac).</li><li>310957 - Switch Win32 SVG renderer from GDI+ to cairo.</li><li>SVG IS ENABLED BY DEFAULT!</li></ul>Many, many, many changes have gone into Firefox since the last release. Too bad I have too much homework to update. :cry:

EDIT: The release is now official.

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Firefox 1.5 Released

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Woah, I'm like so behind, using 1.0.6. LOL I'll have to grab it when I get the chance. Tons of homework here too. :o

# 216466 - Use error pages instead of dialogs for e.g. HTTP networking errors.
# 298293 - Fast back and forward (bfcache).

Good stuff, those popups get really annoying when can't connect to a site, and that happends often with my isp.

Same with fast back/forward, since I find sometimes it actually wants to reload the page when hitting back button.

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Chris Vogel
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Firefox 1.5 Released

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Red Squirrel wrote: Woah, I'm like so behind, using 1.0.6. LOL  I'll have to grab it when I get the chance.  Tons of homework here too. :o
You’re only one release behind! :P Everything after 1.0.4 in the changelogs is a developer release.

(A certain other member never upgraded to 1.0.7 either. :ph34r: )

If you have already downloaded Firefox 1.5 RC3, keep in mind that it differs from Firefox 1.5 final in name only.

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Firefox 1.5 Released

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Thanks for the info

I'm going to try it---again

Its fast right now just installed it. B)

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