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New Firefox 1.5, now available
The latest version of the popular Firefox browser will be released today. Version 1.5, which has been in beta for some time, offers a number of enhancements, including an automated update to streamline product upgrades. Faster navigation is also promised, as is improvements to back and forward button performance. But a really interesting feature which I liked was drag and drop reordering for browser tabs. There are also features to better protect against popups, and a quick Clear Private Data button.
In addition there is a report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox and support for SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6 web standards.
There are also more security enhancements than you can poke a stick at. Firefox 1.0 appeared a year ago and the release of 1.5 is expected to come with a big marketing push from the Mozilla Foundation.
User Comments: 8
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KDE 3.5 and Firefox 1.5 all in one day! Hooray!
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It would have been fun to see Mandriva 2006 with these. It was released about two weeks before. At least, when releasing the ISOs, they upgraded to OOo 2.0 but that's all.[Edited by DragonMaster on 2005-11-29 16:16:02]
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Its still not there yet as I can see...
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According to [http://www.technewsworld.com/story/47581.html]TechNewsWorld it will be released tonight. But it is already available through some mozilla mirrors. [url]http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html[/url]
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I've just got 1.5 from the FTP site.[url]ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele
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And now it's available on Mozilla Corp's website, mozilla.com. You can't get it from mozilla.org anymore.
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Its great. Really faster. And the drag and drop reordering for browser tabs is a must see. Really zips when you hit the back button as well.
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Well, I was using betas of 1.5 for long so I've started to use drag and drop a couple of time ago.
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