Mozilla Firefox Version 1.5: From Beta to Final Release

[accentnepal]

Does Firefox periodically call home? Every week or two I hear my hard drive whirrling and then poof! something goes out, sometimes followed by an announcement that Firefox updates are available. There is no indication that something evil is happening, but I still am uncomfortable telling someone where I have been, or whatever.

I got a neat little add-on to FF that gives pagerank in a little box on the bottom. I have forgotten where I got it, so I guess I won't update for a while.

[bargainbloodhound]

I got a neat little add-on to FF that gives pagerank in a little box on the bottom

The Mozilla site had a few extensions with page rank (including one that also had alexa rankings).  There is also a google toolbar for Firefox.  None of them are compatible with the 1.5 beta.

[mandy]

Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. This is the first release candidate of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback.

more info and downloads: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
releases notes: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/...s/1.5.html

changes from Firefox Beta 2:

What's new in Firefox 1.5 RC1

This page lists the improvements in Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 over Firefox 1.5 Beta 2. Last updated October 27, 2005.
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 :-moz-read-only and :-moz-read-write pseudoclasses.
    * 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.

[regic]

Mozilla released the production version of Firefox 1.5 on Tuesday.  More information and downloads are available at: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

release notes: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html


EDITED TO ADD MODERATOR'S NOTE: p.s. I merged the following 3 topic threads into this thread:

Mozilla Releases New Beta Versions of Firefox and Thunderbird
Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Released October 7
Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 Released November 1st

[Nat]

I downloaded the final version of Firefox 1.5 and it went smoothly - no problems so far.  I just love Firefox.