Firefox 1.5 Released

[drgrudge]

Head here for more:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5.html




Download: (at your risk,it's RC but better than the betas and deer parks)
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5.html#download

[Keith Sebastian]

The 1.5 line spacing between entries in Bookmarks dropdown (ALT+B) is fixed. Back to single line spacing.

Keith

[gxsaurav]

what about extension support, does it support the previous one,many of the extensions I use haven't been updated in a long while

[Choto Cheeta]

i have seen this with evry new FF version... they r very slow to supprot the Adblock install or may b its the extesion which is slow in reacting with the news relese to make it self support that new version...

Ablock is the only resion i am using FireFox..... if it doesnt work then there is no resion for me to stick to this browser.... :cry:

btw the screenshot (http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Mozilla-Firefox-Screenshot-5787.html) doesnt look any different from the 1.0 version...

i hope it has lot of different thing in action...

[drgrudge]

By the way I tried this yesterday. I am not satisfied, 1.0.7 was better.
There are still lot of bugs to be fixed.

Do you guys see the blinking cursor thing in all the parts of the page? It comes in images, ads and other not editable areas as well...
Favicon problem as well...

There is no kickass features in this wrt to 1.0.7 (IMO and for my needs), but the speeds are really fast and the page rendering is good and not to forget the autoupdate of just .5mb to the new version.


RC2 /final RC will be out on nov. 11th hopefully, I will update and update here.

[kato]

some ppl out there are making themes for these RC and beta releases rather than for the 1.0.7 .Like the Black Japan theme which i like the most.

drgrudge why did u say to download RC1 at our own risk

[icecoolz]

Couple of things. The toolbar customizations does not work once your browser is restarted. And neither do the Add Engines feature for the Search bar. Which I find extremely wierd esp since its a RC and not a Beta.

[drgrudge]

No, icecoolz.

The toolbar customizations did work for me, what do you mean by toolbar customizations exactly?

The add engines do work, I got IMDb, Torrentspy, Merriam webster thesaurus/dictionary on it and deleted all others as I dont use them.


By the way, did you see the the blinking cursor thing in all the parts of the page? It comes in images, ads and other not editable areas as well...
Screenshots:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/uploads/post-84383-1131328684.gif

http://www.neowin.net/forum/uploads/post-84383-1131328697.gif

I took the above to get support at Neowin.

[icecoolz]

My search engines did not have any in them and no matter what I did I could not add any search engines at all. No idea why tho. And the toolbar customization is where in you can customize and add buttons such as new tabs, downloads and so on.

And yea I saw the blinking cursor. Everywhere!! I have no idea why they did that tho....

[drgrudge]

Yeah, my toobars work good and is customisable as well :D

Ice, do you know that not all have the cursor thing, as far as I know, only we both have it :lol:

By the way, it's fast dont you think so?

[whim_gen]

^^
Yeah,even I too have that damn cursor everywhere.
I had thought that it was due to some of the modifications I did using the extensions :?:
It turns out that it is a bug huh?
Damn cursor

[kato]

its not a bug for me though i dont see it. Did u all do a clean install or installed it upon the 1.0.7

[drgrudge]

I installed on top of 1.0.7, it's not due to extensions, I tried to disable the extensions and saw the result, it still it persists.

[icecoolz]

The speed is def up there. I have to give it that. And thats the only reason why I am sticking to it despite the toolbar and search engine irritations. And the cursor thing is defenitely wierd. When I browse some other forums the cursor doesnt even show in the quick reply boxes!! But speed is a def posotive.

[drgrudge]

RC2 is now available as updates.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

The built is not yet available as d/l, only update as now, but only MAC users were able to d/l :lol:

Hope it fixes the bugs that I had in RC1. Can't wait to update :D

[kato]

hey i feel everyone is facing different sets of problem its like some face this problem and some face other.Though some problems are same for some people.
I have a problem sometimes some of the pages dont load and some load only half

Offtopic: My connection berserk too my phone is dead but i can connect to internet i m on dataone

[drgrudge]

Dudes, we can update now... RC2 is just 380+kb update from RC1. Firefox will show it as 1.5, but many say that this is RC2 only..

[mail2and]

RC2 is now available as updates.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

The built is not yet available as d/l, only update as now, but only MAC users were able to d/l :lol:

Hope it fixes the bugs that I had in RC1. Can't wait to update :D

MAC is a networking term. i.e. NIC MAC address

Mac is Apple's OS :)

Btw, Camino v1 also had an update... it is in beta stage.. it fixed the blinking cursor bug. Did it fix in Firefox?

[drgrudge]

I dont care abt MAC/Mac...

The blinking cursor thing is not with all the users. Only some of us expeirence it.
Yes, for me that is not yet fixed.

[Vishal Gupta]

Today I installed this new 1.5 RC2 :D
Yes! I found it a little bit faster than previous ones!

And I'm not facing ne blinking cursor problem!

But I found 3 things irritating, which were not in previous versions (like 1.0.7):

1.) The dotted rectangle, which appears whenever we select nething like when we click on tabs:

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1773/untitled16vm.jpg

2.) I found on many sites, that it can't display list boxes properly:

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1341/untitled28jk.jpg

3.) The hand icon, which appears when we want to customize the toolbars in firefox, earlier there was not ne hand icon.

[delhibhai1000]

Do u hav Java & Javascript on? ( for d Display box prob)

[drgrudge]

For all the ppl with the blinking cursor thing, it's a "feature" of FX and not a bug :D

Tools>Options>Advanced>General>Allow text to be selected using the keyboard. Turn this off and off goes the annoying cursor! It can be also enabled/disabled using F7 key.


By the way, in case anyone wants to d/l: (5 mb)
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5rc2/update/mac/en-US/

[drgrudge]

Dudes, RC3 is now available for download. Use your auto update in case you have RC2 or beta installed already.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5rc3/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.5rc3.exe

[icecoolz]

I just updated it. Still my search engines and the bookmarks and customize toolbar doesnt work. Damn I am just gonna uninstall and do a fresh install.

[Vishal Gupta]

thnx drgrudge :D
I hv firefox 1.5 RC2 installed and hv not faced ne problem yet, except 2 or 3 little problems, which I mentioned earlier...

Will update to this RC3 too :D

[bala4digit]

iam gona download it!!!!!

BYE!!!

-MOJOJOJO

[drgrudge]

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Released
Tuesday November 29th, 2005

The final release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is now available for download from GetFirefox.com for most major operating systems or from the mirrors. Users of the release candidates should receive the update soon.

Firefox 1.5 introduces several new features, including an improved software update system, faster Back / Forward page navigation, a new options to clear private browsing data, drag-and-drop reordering of browser tabs, a redesigned Options/Preferences window and more robust popup blocking. Standards support is also improved, with support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JavaScript 1.6 and additional CSS properties. Accessibility is much improved (including new DHTML accessibility features), security has been enhanced and Mac OS X support has also been improved.

More details can be found in the 1.5 Release Notes, and the support forums staff is available for questions.
Head here for more:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html

The auto update thing is not working as of now.. I don't want to d/l 5mb instead of 400kb :P

[shwetanshu]

me cudnt wait so just dl the whole setup

[Vishal Gupta]

Very strange!!!!

that the Auto Update is not detecting the new version?

But I'll definitely d/l this new version after completing this post :D

[cvvikram]

Thanx for the info dude....i have downloaded it and using it :D :D

[shwetanshu]

hey the themes and extensions page had a makeovr, now u can add search engines like imdb, ebay, espn, bit torrent. check it out.

http://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox

[gxsaurav]

downloaded & installed, lets see if it can make me switch from IE 6 SP2(maxthon) or not

although, i don't find speed advantages

[QwertyManiac]

Well, i was almost right , it was releasing on 29th and well... it released today... :( Great browser

[drgrudge]

Hmm. .. those who have 1.5 RC3 already installed need not update as RC3 is same as 1.5 Final :d
That's why FX din't update :P

[QwertyManiac]

Lol, thats some intresting news, but y 1.5 RC3 then ?

EDIT - Both file's size are the same :p