Firefox 1.5 Released

Thanks Halo,will give it a whirl.With a ghost image as backup,just in case.LOL

 

If it wasn't so ugly, even with different themes, I'd try it.

Yes, I am that shallow

 

Please note that if you are currently running 1.5 RC3, it will not autoupdate to the new 1.5, so you have to do it manually.

 

Before downloading the new FF, shold I save my bookmarks? If so, how? Thanks

Jack

 

It should automatically transfer them onto the new version.

I've been a Firefox user for almost 10 months and it's great. 1.5 is even better at rendering and that leads into faster page loading.

A person here stated that the interface is ugly.....how so? I think Firefox has the best original interface out of all the browsers (IMHO) without having to go and download extra themes.

 

Thanks womfalcs, downloaded and every thing fine. Actually, where is the diff look from the previous????????/ Looks the same to me.

Jack

 

You've never had the pleasure of using Camino to know what I am talking about.

 

Here are the release notes of FireFox 1.5 if you didnt know.

• 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.

Release Notes

 

http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/skins/firefox_camino.html



I hate theme's personally. Well, maybe the default theme, is a theme also.

Also, I only have one extension, Forecast fox.

 

At that point I may as well use Camino

 

I've seen and used Camino, Konqueror, and a few others.

But, I'm content with FF. Been using it for quite a few years.

Now, I wonder if there are any skins/programs that make apple computers look like windows.

 

That would be blasphemous, not to mention counter productive.

Why anyone would want to make their OS look uglier, I've no idea

 

Though, making ones MAC look like windows, then send it into a shop, and attempt to run /install MS type of programs on it, find that it doesn't work, and require a rebuild would be LOL.

 

Know how long that would stump MS support now that it went to India?

I'd be willing to bet it would be escalated over and over.

 

Hrm, I've had an "English" individual help out. Though, perhaps this was an English individual who moved to India.

Something I hate doing. Talking to that evil activation female voice on that activation number. To many re-installations (ordered by boss/policy).

Question, does MS actually listen to the conversations with the robot voice? I hope not. Co-worker makes "suggestive" comments with her!

 

There are a couple left in Canada (New Glasgow to be specific).

Soon, they will be gone too, from what I am hearing.

 

Has anyone else had problems with Firefox 1.5 freezing during midload on a page? The page will be loading and then suddenly the throbber'll freeze in mid-spin, I can't switch to any other tabs, and if I hit the back button the title bar changes but it stays frozen at that same page. Basically, I have to shut FF down and restart it as it locks up the whole program.

This's happened three times on on my Mac at work and once on my PC at home.

m19

 

Bookmarks are not in the Program Files folder, they're in the profile folder, which is in various obscure locations depending on your OS. See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder

Anyway, this may require a new Firefox profile; re-installing the browser doesn't change the profile.Try creating a new profile(don't delete the old one yet): http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new

Make sure that you have it created in the default location, or make a new, empty folder to put it in if you create a profile in a different location.

If the problem doesn't exist when running a clean profile, then do this: http://the-edmeister.home.comcast.net/tips-html/tips-restoring_your_browsing_data.html

<edit> in 1.5 you can also transfer the extensions folder to the new profile>