FireFox 1.5 available

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:35 am

Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5:

* 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.

Windows Installer 5103 KB
Linux tarball 8248 KB
MAC installer 9667 KB

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:24 am

got it, like it.
my extensions atm:

web developer (stuff like validators etc)
google page rank status (i once had a 3 and would have missed it without that extension )
disable targets for downloads
color zilla - gets colorcodes -.-
noscript - disables javascript generally, with a whitelist for safe pages
pong! -.-
forecastfox - just in case im gonna leave my flat
tabbrowser extensions - more control over tabs

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:27 am

I'm gonna wait for the final release because not all the extensions I use have been upgraded to 1.5, and I rely on them too heavily.

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:22 pm

tabbrowser extensions kicked, tabmix plus installed. tbe wasn't able to open js-popups in a new tab since ff 1.5. sucks.