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Firefox 1.5 RC1 Released
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CmdrTaco
on Wed Nov 02, 2005 08:12 AM
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jgaynor writes "The Firefox team took another step towards version 1.5 this morning as it made public release candidate 1 of it's popular browser. Users running 1.5 beta should have already received notice via an automated update dialogue box. New features include improved Pop-up blocking, enhanced automated update, better OS X support and faster back and forward page navigation buttons. A full list of features can be found in the release notes as well as the downloaded page." My copy is 24 seconds away from downloaded ;)
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1.5 Beta 2? (Score:4, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Friday February 11 2005, @04:09AM)
Re:1.5 Beta 2? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:1.5 Beta 2? (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, right. For me, it keeps downloading and installing the 1.5 beta 2 over and over!
If you're gonna download it (Score:5, Insightful)
Changelog (Score:5, Informative)
New browser features
* 313529 - Support importing home pages from (some) other browsers and multiple versions of Firefox Start.
* 220590 - [Mac] Delete (backspace) key should go back on Mac, too.
New web developer features
* 302188 - Support
* 230909 - Make the dom.max_script_run_time pref work. (This pref controls the "this script is running slowly" dialog.)
New extension developer features
Nothing new since Firefox 1.5 Beta 2.
Notable bug fixes
* 313300 - Change default for browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction from 0 to 2. (Make "Force links that open new windows to open in... new tabs" not apply to window.open with specified width, height, or other features.)
* 312527 - Need to reduce padding for bookmark menu items.
* 245418 - Menus and contextual menus open on wrong screen when using dual screens.
* 312227 - Not able to type in textbox of the main window after download completes.
* 309027 - Saving image does not open the save location window sometimes.
* Many reliability fixes for software update.
* 284474 - Converting to UTF-8 a url with an unescaped non-ASCII chars in the query part leads to an incompaitbilty with most server-side programs. (Fixed by backing out the change for 261929, Send urls in UTF-8 by default (images/links with non-ASCII chacters not displayed).)
* 245392 - Installer options for shortcuts don't work (update/install adds unwanted icons to desktop/quick launch, creates empty folder in start menu).
* 282750 - Extremely slow scrolling of ESPN.com.
* 310825 - window.focus() in a background tab can steal focus from foreground tab.
Java plugin (Score:4, Informative)
(http://geophile.com/)
But does it run (Score:2, Funny)
(http://www.boozepoint.com/)
Kudos To The Firefox Team (Score:4, Informative)
ctrl+tab on Mac OS X (Score:5, Informative)
(http://alpha.edtinger.at/)
1) Quit Firefox
2) Go to Firefox.app, Choose Show Package Contents (my Finder show the german
text so I can only guess what's the wording in english) and go to
Contents/MacOS/chrome/
3) Backup toolkit.jar and rename it to toolkit.zip
4) unpack toolkit.zip and go to content/global/bindings/
5) open tabbrowser.xml
6) Replace (in line 1977 in my file)
this.mTabBox.handleCtrlTab = !/Mac/.test(navigator.platform);
with
this.mTabBox.handleCtrlTab = true;
7) Create an archive of the content folder
8) Rename it to toolkit.jar
9) You can now use ctrl+tab again
b4n
IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.pattensoap.com/)
I wish Firefox added more cutting edge stuff. MS will win the war if this is what is going to compete against IE 7.
Maybe in the final release we will see some better features added.
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:5, Interesting)
In terms of cutting edge stuff I'd really like to see IE support SVG, XForms, more complete CSS, and other Web 2.0 features. I guess we just have different views and priorities on that one.
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:5, Insightful)
In contrary, Firefox can be used on the internet - which I consider as a standard feature that IE clearly lacks of.
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.initialized.org/)
Firefox is ultimately a lightweight browser that can be easily expanded to suit an end-user's individual preferences. There are freely available extensions that will convert Firefox into the most feature-rich browser imaginable.
For the common end user, another is the phishing filter, which is pretty good.
It's funny that you would mention it. The current development builds of Mozilla Thunderbird actually have a "scam detection" filter, even though I feel that such technology does often add a false sense of security to the equation. Maybe it will be shared with an upcoming Firefox build.
I wish Firefox added more cutting edge stuff.
This subject has been beaten to death here at Slashdot, but I'm afraid that the Trident rendering engine is still many miles behind the competition. Gecko is definitely cutting edge by comparison, even though I understand that the Microsoft team is striving to improve their engine.
MS will win the war if this is what is going to compete against IE 7.
If there is indeed a browser war happening, Microsoft certainly has the advantage. For most people, after all, the preinstalled Internet Explorer is synonymous with "the Internet." However, I don't believe that Firefox 1.5 will be up against Internet Explorer 7.0. Instead, it's likely that Firefox 2.0 ("The Ocho") will be released [mozilla.org] alongside Vista, and that they will directly compete for the market.
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Tuesday July 27 2004, @01:15AM)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.h
So yeah, I think the Firefox crew has some time to add in these new IE7 features (at least the ones that make sense) without having to worry too much.
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.compumania.com/)
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview
As for phishing, check out these extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/quicksearch.php?q=phis
IE has not innovated in a very long time while other have been trying hard to innovate to just get through the market leader-ship barrier that IE has put. It's going to be very challenging for the IE team to introduce any feature that would be outside the "catch-up" with other browser features. I'm glad to see that IE is going to introduce nifty features from all over the place, nonetheless.
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.nexusuk.org/)
Will IE7 feature Clippy too? "It looks like you're downloading a virus, would you like help installing it?"
Being serious, IE7 is still not standards complient and still doesn't support XHTML.
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:5, Informative)
They were not the first for any of those 3 items you mentioned. Firefox was just playing catchup to other programs out there. It's just that they implemented them properly and all in one application.
Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/lombardo)
Everything is well integrated with XUL/Javascript.
This opens the door to many applications that were not possible before without resorting to Java/Flash/ActiveX/...
Think of a Gantt chart editor in your browser.
Think of a graphical editor in your browser.
Think of a CAD in your browser.
SVG has the potential to move the kind of operations you can perform in a browser to the next level.
Extensions Again (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Extensions Again (Score:5, Informative)
AutoUpdate Issues (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.frogsporn.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 26 2006, @05:30PM)
I've been running 1.5 beta 2 since it was released, and for some reason the autoupdate to 1.5RC1 got stuck in a loop where beta 2 would just keep downloading and applying the upgrader, without actually having any effect. AutoUpdate is one of the key new features in 1.5 to keep users browsers up to date (and hence, patching holes rapidly, keeping FireFox's security edge over IE).
Hopefully this is just the result of issues in beta 2 and older profiles, rather than an indicator of problems in the AutoUpdate code.
Well, that was ... (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Tuesday September 24 2002, @12:01PM)
I'm now on 1.5RC1
Thanks
gus
Posting this from RC1 and ACID2 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Posting this from RC1 and ACID2 (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.anchorweb.org/)
There were no plans to make 1.5 pass the Acid2 test [mozillazine.org]. Firefox 1.5 is based on Gecko 1.8. Firefox trunk builds [mozilla.org] have made some progress as can be seen in bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=198232 part of bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289480.
DO NOT use 1.5 and a trunk build on the same profile [mozillazine.org].Wish they'd fix bug 270553 (E4X - DOM) (Score:1, Troll)
(http://www.altiva.fr/)
Here's the URL (no link since they block
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2705
Pop-up blocking (Score:4, Interesting)
I am *really* looking forward to pop-up blocking improvements. It seems that when I first started using firefox (back in the early days) it caught the vast majority of pop-ups. That situation seems to have gotten worse lately. For example, I visit a certain guitar tab web site. Let's say I want to view 10 different tabs at once... using Firefox's tabs, I just click away. Unfortunately, this also means I'm greated with 10 new pop ups. This happens every time and has really brought back the days before firefox (and no pop-up blocker).
Re:Pop-up blocking (Score:4, Informative)
If 1.5RC1 doesn't solve this issue, I highly recommend installing Flashblock [mozdev.org], which ensures no Flash executes unless you specifically click on it. For these "hidden" Flash animations, you can never click on them, so no more popups for you.
Installer stinks (Score:2)
(http://www.myspace.com/lykachamp)
I hope it passes the acid2 test like Safari (Score:1, Offtopic)
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/ [webstandards.org]
I'm rooting for firefox to catch up -- it is usually the heavyweight in this area but it has been passed up.
Not any more... (Score:2, Funny)
Tempting fate, hey?
Sick bastard (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.stevenvansickle.com/)
Sure, brag about it because you got to post the story. Now that I'm reading about it, mine's 24,000 seconds.
<griping>Curse you slashdot effect</griping>
Download (Score:1)
24 seconds? (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.djc.id.au/)
Killer feature (Score:1)
I wouldn't be bitching but it comes placed up high in the changelog before Improvements to product usability and Better accessibility...
Autoupdate sucks! (Score:1)
problems w/ first 1.5 beta (Score:2, Interesting)
General comments... (Score:5, Interesting)
Spoke too soon (Score:3, Informative)
(http://jon.gaynor.org/)
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jgaynor/images/ff.bmp [rutgers.edu]
Google shows others (if only a few) have had this issue [google.com] with older moz builds.
1.5 release? (Score:1)
(http://www.u2boy.nl/)
Firefox & OpenDocument (Score:1, Interesting)
Such ability would make much easier the introduction of OpenDocuument-ready apps (i.e. OpenOffice 2.0).
Is there any technical problem to create such feature/extension?
Here's a small problem... (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.iki.fi/wwwwolf/)
This is kind of off-topic but also very much on topic, because it does involve firefox update.
Does anyone know how to make SVG files, you know, scalable?
If I put images to web pages with <img> tag, and specify width and height, the image gets scaled.
But if I do what is recommended for SVG - that is, I create a PNG rendering of the image for backwards compatibility, then use <object data="foo.svg" ...><image src="foo.png" .../></object>, with width and height specified on both img and object tags, I get a properly scaled PNG image in Firefox 1.0 (which can't interpret the object type in question, so it falls back to the <img> tag, it as it should), and an improperly scaled SVG image in Firefox 1.5 and all other SVG browsers. Some SVG-enabled browsers (MSIE with AdobeSVG, FF1.0 with Inkscape plugin) show original-size SVG images, FF1.5 seems to be really nice and shows scrollbars on the image.
I tried making a small SVG file which uses <foreignObject> to scale the picture, but it didn't seem to work at all with SVG images in FF1.5, plus, it was an awful hack!
So what's supposed to be the web-standards-compliant trick of placing and arbitrary-sized SVG image on a web site, then having the browser scale the frigging scalable vector graphic file to the specified width and height?
I've looked around everywhere, nobody seems to know - anybody here know?
Re:Here's a small problem... (Score:4, Informative)
(http://blog.codedread.com/)
It's possible I misunderstood you, but I think the problem may be that the SVG image itself is specifying the size. Look at the element and see if the width/height are being specified. Ideally, the <svg> element should state width="100%" and height="100%". Then this should allow the user agent to properly scale the SVG image inside an <object> tag by specifying the <object>'s width/height. However if the <svg> element specifies width="400px", then maybe you're stuck because the author of the SVG has stated the width is 400 pixels, end of story.
I can't remember what the behavior of the SVG or HTML spec say with respect to this when conflicts occur... Specs like CDF [w3.org] will help to clarify some of these issues.
Grammar Nazi (Score:2)
(http://www.dentar.com | Last Journal: Tuesday February 11 2003, @11:00PM)
First Impressions (Score:1)
One feature I wish they would include that was present in 1.0.7 was opening a new tab when I click with my scroll button on the tab toolbar. Does anybody know a good work-around or solution to this?
Popup blocker with Adblocker extension and a good list of stuff to block has transformed the internet in to a productive time waster again :).
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You called it. (Score:1)
And I did, and it was good.
And updated!
Anyone else have trouble updating (Score:2)
(http://www.ducktapeandglue.com/)
All I want is... (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://justin-cook.com/wp)
2. Hurry up and release Minimo 1.0!!!
Download (Score:5, Funny)
So you will be reading Zonk's dupe of this story on your
newly downloaded & installed shiny Firefox.
CLIWWW (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/~Doc%20Ruby/journal | Last Journal: Thursday March 31 2005, @01:48PM)
No QT version? (Score:1)
(http://zlogic.da.ru/)
If only they had a QT version of Firefox, I'd get rid of Konqueror this instant.
It doesn't seem too difficult to port it to QT because not just plugins but also Firefox's core is built upon XUL. Port XUL to QT and I think that's all you need.
And it's not an ideological issue(Trolltech makes $$$ etc.) either because the Windows version of Fx relies on Microsoft's widget set.
And Gnome apps look bad in KDE and don't connect well with other kde apps. For some app I launch twice a week that's ok, but for a browser that's unacceptable. It's probably the most often-launched app on loads of PCs.
And coming soon... (Score:1)
Note: I-for-one-have-downloaded-Firefox-3-bazillion-tim
Is the Mac version still confused about tab focus? (Score:2)
I was assured this had been fixed in b2, but it clearly had not. I'm not about to trust RC1 until someone can tell me for SURE this problem has been fixed, once and for all.
i was supposed to get a dialog box? (Score:1)
Portable Firefox 1.5 RC1 (Score:3, Informative)
(http://johnhaller.com/)
Portable Firefox: Deer Park 1.5 RC1:
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox
For the unfamiliar, Portable Firefox allows you to carry your whole web browser along with all your bookmarks and extensions with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. It is a repackaged version of the popular Mozilla Firefox browser designed with portability in mind, so it has all the same great features of Firefox, but there's nothing to install.
Dear lord it took a while. (Score:1)
Google Toolbar (Score:1)
faster buttons? (Score:1)
(http://quest.dfxwebs.com/)
How exactly do you make the buttons faster? The shadowing toggle time of the buttons has decreased or what? This makes absolutely no sense.
Pathetic (Score:2)
Pathetic. My copy downloaded in 2.92 seconds at 1701KB/s.
Full update vs. small update (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Friday February 11 2005, @11:52AM)
XP Pro, SP2, NTFS drive, I can't update or reinstall any program that's been run in that Windows session. Gaim, Winamp, Firefox, and several other programs (hell, it was one of the reasons I quit WoW - in WoW's case I had to boot into safe mode to update the program). I have to reboot or rename the main executable file (the one being overwritten) to get the install to work.
Luckily, for some reason FF didn't do that this time, but for all the 1.0.x updates I had to do this, and for all the beta releases the small patch always failed, defaulting to the larger patch.
It's frustrating as hell, and when I mention it to tech-savvy friends or on message boards, nobody has any idea, and it looks like it's a problem only I have - even though it's a problem I can replicate on my desktop, my laptop, and my work computer.
Does anybody else ever have this problem? Is it Windows File Protection, or what?
Holding left-click still pegs the Mac's CPU (Score:1)
Built-in updater didn't work for me (Score:1)
(http://darah.com/)
Anyone else experience that?
SPAM (Score:2)
I hope this isn't the warning signs of imminent slashdot spamming...
Re:PLEASE (Score:1)
(http://www.deadenddesign.com/)
Re:My experience (Score:2)
(http://www.hipersonik.com/)
Re:Adblock? (Score:1)
(http://www.locals.ca/)
Re:My experience (Score:2)
Re:My experience (Score:1)
Re:Beta's are great but.. (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:Adblock? (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.spreadfir...amp;id=12239&t=1)
Until Adblock can work with RC1...
I'm using both Adblock 0.5.2.039 and the Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.2.6, both with no problems or issues (that I can tell.)
Re:I hope they fixed the plugin in manager (Score:1)
(http://www.crimperman.org/)
Couldn't you just Adblock [mozilla.org] the swf files or install Flashblock [mozilla.org]?
Re:My copy... (Score:1)