09-10-2005, 11:11 AM
Firefox 1.5 beta release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/...beta1.html
Download the 1.5 beta here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
email client Thunderbird 1.5 release notes and download: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderb...beta1.html
( warning: the Firefox 1.5 beta suffers from the same security flaw as the current 1.06 release--details here: http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...ml#msg1410)
Download the 1.5 beta here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
email client Thunderbird 1.5 release notes and download: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderb...beta1.html
( warning: the Firefox 1.5 beta suffers from the same security flaw as the current 1.06 release--details here: http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...ml#msg1410)
Quote:Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5 Beta 1:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
* Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
* Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
* Improvements to popup blocking.
* Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
* Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
* Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.
* Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
* Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
* Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
* New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
* Many security enhancements.
Quote:Here's what's new in Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
* Spell check as you type.
* Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams.
* Podcasting and other RSS Improvements.
* Deleting attachments from messages.
* Integration with server side spam filtering.
* Reply and forward actions for message filters.
* Kerberos Authentication.
* Auto save as draft for mail composition.
* Improvements to product usability including redesigned options UI, and SMTP server management.
* Many security enhancements