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Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available
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on Tue Nov 29, 2005 04:39 PM
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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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Re:very nice (Score:4, Informative)
(http://bcable.net/)
Re:very nice (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Tuesday November 26 2002, @07:28PM)
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.
Re:very nice (Score:5, Funny)
Re:very nice (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.paulmischler.com/)
<MontyPython>Three, sir!</MontyPython>
Re:very nice (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Where are the RPMs? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Where are the RPMs? (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Friday February 18 2005, @07:04PM)
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=
P2P downloads: (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.freebase.be/)
Gnutella, G2 and ed2k go here [freebase.be].
torrent can be found here [thepiratebay.org].
Re:P2P downloads: (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Saturday October 20, @06:40PM)
OMG! you will be visited by the MPAA soon! =oP
Anyway, just for the sake of completness, I was just looking at the "Roadmap" for Firefox 2.0,3.0. [mozilla.org]
It seems that the once "sleek, fast and stand alone browser" will continue to be bloated and bloated with features.
Why, o why dont the just freeze the 1.5 release and try to fix EVERY bug in the bugzilla database!
For example, I have installed the 1.5 version, and still the Find function does not work as expected on multiple frames (Java Api Documentation). There has been a bug filed on bugzilla for quite some time now (one year IIRC).
Re:P2P downloads: (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:P2P downloads: (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.arbitraryconstant.com/)
This is exactly it. If I can be forgiven for using a cliche, "extensions are the new tabs". They're as much of a killer app as tabs were, IMO.
Not only do extensions make it possible to keep the base install simple and add features only a fraction of people want (eg mouse gestures, sessions) on an as-needed basis, they allow lawsuitbait features (eg BugMeNot integration) and features too narrow in scope to make it into an official release (eg enhancements for specific websites like Fark).
Naturally, some want a browser that works the way they want out of the box, and perhaps Firefox can't do that for everyone. I have no problem with that. I don't even have a problem with people using IE. What I like is that there's a powerful choice that works well for me, and the fact that IE's market share isn't high enough to let websites start requiring it again (it still happens but it was much more common a few years ago).
Also... now that the Mac version doesn't suck I can ditch Safari. It still has a slightly smaller memory footprint, but it's not significantly faster anymore and there are themes that help Firefox look native. With Firefox's feature lead, it's worth a small memory hit even on my older iBook, and with the ruthless efficiency of the AdBlock and Fliterset.G Updater extensions I even end up saving memory.
Welcome to Officialality Firefox 1.5! (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.misscellania.com/ | Last Journal: Monday October 29, @11:47PM)
A fitting tribute would be to slashdot the mozilla site into obscurity for at least the first 24 hours. I'm sure Microsoft will try even if the general public doesn't manage to do it
The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://lexamb.blogspot.com/)
When I click "Automatically do this for files of this type", stop showing me the prompt box for what to do with this file everytime the file comes up!
This happens a lot, especially with Torrent files. I tell firefox to launch Azureus whenever it sees a torrent. I tell it to always do this automatically for me. What does it do? It prompts me for every godamn torrent file as to whether is should save it or launch it into Azureus.
I torrent a lot of stuff, so this is really, really annoying.
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.anchorweb.org/)
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.int64.org/)
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Insightful)
A file extension is no guarentee of the file type. How many emails with
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Insightful)
Are you telling me that if someone emailed you a screensaver, and the content type said screensaver, that you'd open it? If so, you're retarded.
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.squarefree.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday August 09 2003, @09:27PM)
(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 [web-sniffer.net] or LiveHTTPHeaders [mozdev.org].
Re:The feature that Mozilla is still missing... (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.
Oooh! Features! (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://myspace.com/adolfojp)
Apart from the troll. Props to the firefox team. Keep up the good work!
Adolfo
Couldn't wait for the official releas? (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://carlmenezes.blogspot.com/)
Using it now.. (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Pretty sweet (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.slashdot.org/)
Does anyone know why Safari passes, but no other browsers? (Perhaps the Acid just love Apple?)
Re:Pretty sweet (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.anchorweb.org/)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167091&cid=13
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=148742&cid
Re:Pretty sweet (Score:4, Informative)
Konquerer does with KDE 3.5 released today. Check out http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/29
Re:Pretty sweet (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Pretty sweet (Score:4, Funny)
Heavy Stress on Gentoo Boxes (Score:4, Funny)
I guess we need posts like these...... (Score:5, Funny)
1.5 RC3 and Final are the same (Score:5, Interesting)
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c - Firefox Setup 1.5.exe
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c - Firefox Setup 1.5rc3.exe
Re:1.5 RC3 and Final are the same (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.shoshan.es/)
RC3 was a candidate to be the Final 1.5 version, not a beta.
Changes are expected within beta versions, but not within Release Candidates.
RC3 convinced... it was fine, no bugs needed to be fixed for it... so it was confirmed from a candidate to the actual final product.
Drag and drop reordering bug (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Tuesday September 25, @06:21PM)
Re:Drag and drop reordering bug (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.anchorweb.org/)
Wait for your distro to have a binary to download or build from source and apply the patch.
Halleujah! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.xanga.com/morrighu | Last Journal: Saturday August 26 2006, @09:16AM)
The second prophet was a false prophet called Internet Explorer, which hid its true nature from the people until it was nearly too late since it was sent out by the great deceiver, Microsoft. The great deceiver tried to limit their access to the internet and to turn them aside from anything that the deceiver did not make money off of.
The people groaned and labored to feed the great deceiver, but alas, nothing could fill his belly. The great deciever blessed the heresey of having the browser integrated into the operating system. Loudly did the people cry unto the computer gods for a new prophet to lead them, but the gods were angry since the had given the people Linux. The people ignored Linux and chose to follow the great deceiver.
Finally, the computer gods softened their hearts and heard the cries of the people and sent a third prophet. The people are fortunate that they have not been abandoned for straying from the path of Linux. Mighty indeed is the penguin. A new prophet has been sent to lead us out of the valley of the shadow of ActiveX.
Halleujah!
The heavens opened, the angels sang, and Firefox descended into our midst to releive us from the woe that is Internet Explorer.
2 cents,
Queen B
Wither AMD64 Version? (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.mightyware.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 08, @10:18PM)
where to get Firefox (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.melez.com/)
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
Re:where to get Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.melez.com/)
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 [mozilla.org]Mac OS X [mozilla.org]
Linux [mozilla.org]
new problems introduced (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:new problems introduced (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://assembler.org/)
- The Reload button randomly disappearing on occasion.
- When I switch from one app to FF by clicking on the FF window, if I click into a text area (like the one I'm typing in now) the text area does not have focus. This pains me to no end because if I copy something from another window and then click on the FF window, I have to basically click the textarea twice in order to copy the contents into it. Bah.
Yeah, they have a ways to go with the OS X support.
RC3 and final are the same exact thing (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.melez.com/)
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.
Re:ACID2, anyone? (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @05:30PM)
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 [opera.com] 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?
Many extensions don't work (Score:3, Informative)
Is the Memory Leak fixed yet? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
First impressions: what's new in 1.5? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.the-h.net/)
- New, non-standard "flat" look for the menus (presumably trying to emulate MS-office in windows XP)
- Extension interface broken once again, so no 1.5 support for some extensions
- new "Hey look, we're pretending to be IE!"-style error pages (less-intrusive than error popups, I'm mixed on this one.)
- Some of the more-important functions of tabbrowser extensions seem to be included, but I'm not going to bother to disable tbe to find out if it's "good enough"
- http://www.yzzerdd.com/ [yzzerdd.com], http://www.snopes.com/ [snopes.com] no longer seem to succeed at opening popups (Yes I'm against ad blocking, No I'm not against blocking browser-hijacking.)
- Still seems to have whatever bug makes it sometimes simply "stop responding to all links", but now seems to recover from it after a long delay, rather than requiring browser restart.
- No obvious improvements to the bookmarks panel
- The incredibly stupid favorite-icon bug is still there. I dont know what idiocy causes this, but it certainly
So, verdict for the moment: Less fun to look at, more good.
Re:SVG? (Score:4, Informative)
Deer Park? (Score:3, Insightful)
As an analogy, imagine demonstrating Linux to your CIO and the first thing he sees is "Now booting Zonked Quokka"...
Re:Thank God... (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday December 14 2004, @04:42PM)
Re:Pop ups. (Score:3, Informative)
(http://jasonrumney.net/)
Re:Finally (pun) (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://phroggy.com/)
Welcome to open source. Very few other people are getting paid for it either. The Mozilla Foundation does have some employees, but the vast majority of the work is done by volunteers.
Re:Thank God... (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Get the NoScript extension. (Score:4, Informative)
In the meantime, just grab the NoScript extension and do it yourself.
FireFox 1.5, filled with extensionable goodness!
Re:SVG (Score:3, Informative)
For those unfamiliar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG [wikipedia.org]
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.
Re:Finally (pun) (Score:5, Funny)
That's why I'm still using Windows 3.11
Re:Mirrors? That's soooo 2002 (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Finally (pun) (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.pocketgamer.org/)
Yeah, everyone else just pays to beta test Windows...
Re:x64 (Score:3, Insightful)