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    Firefox 1.5 beta 1 is out!

    US-english Windows: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...20Beta%201.exe

    US-english Mac: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...20Beta%201.dmg

    US-english Linux: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...staller.tar.gz

    Mozilla’s products — Mozilla (US)
    http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5beta1.html
    Mozilla’s family of products are all designed to keep you safer and smarter online


    Brief summary of changes:
    * 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 support including DHTML accessibility.
    * 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.
    There's basically lots of little changes that didn't make the tiny list...like how there are now error pages instead of a popup error, and it comes complete with a button to try again (which means if an error page pops up when making a post, clicking the button to try again will submit the post in full).

    More detail: Notable bug fixes/changes from Firefox 1.0 to 1.5 Alpha 1: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedg...ses/1.5a1.html

    Notable bug fixes/changes from 1.5 Alpha 1 to 1.5 Alpha 2: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedg...ses/1.5a2.html

    Notable bug fixes/changes from 1.5 Alpha 2 to 1.5 Beta 1: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedg...ses/1.5b1.html

    The rendering engine in Firefox 1.5 is actually a full 2 years of active development newer than Firefox 1.0's.
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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  • #2
    Does anyone else have problems with Firefox crashing on some websites?

    I've noticed it just doesn't like some.

    like Comedy Central, Gamespot, G4TV... there's more, can't remember... but a lot of popular sites don't like it... and some sites hyperlinks don't work!

    Have any of these issues been resolved?
    To us, it is the BEAST.

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    • #3
      Most likely.
      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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      • #4
        Got it, but I can see Q^3 complaint about Firefox. All my extensions are now outdated . I have to wait for updates.
        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
          Got it, but I can see Q^3 complaint about Firefox. All my extensions are now outdated . I have to wait for updates.
          The vast majority of them will likely work, but their max_version is set to 1.0.

          There's an extension out there which lets you load them anyway.
          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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          • #6
            ... do tell where it is .
            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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            • #7
              Nice
              Using it now. The tab drag'n'drop is nice.

              I also notice that "Creative Commons" has been added to the search engine list, I didn't know about that site previously, interesting.

              edit: More first impressions. Color of selected text changed, seems more effective for darker backgrounds. The "Try Again" thing is nice.

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              • #8
                Just installed and opened it. Haven't tested any new features, but so far I'm trying to figure out if it's worth switching from Camino.

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                • #9
                  Camino's becoming a dead end.

                  Google just hired Camino's primary programmer, Mike Pinkerton, to work on Firefox (presumably to help integrate/localize it more with the Mac).
                  "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                  Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Blake
                    Nice
                    Using it now. The tab drag'n'drop is nice.

                    I also notice that "Creative Commons" has been added to the search engine list, I didn't know about that site previously, interesting.

                    edit: More first impressions. Color of selected text changed, seems more effective for darker backgrounds. The "Try Again" thing is nice.
                    It also will instantly mark links as visited, even if you hold CTRL to open them in a background tab. That's one thing I really like.
                    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                    • #11
                      Can you set Firefox to open new tabs to your homepage instead of to a blank page?
                      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                      Stadtluft Macht Frei
                      Killing it is the new killing it
                      Ultima Ratio Regum

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                      • #12
                        Also, is there an extension to block mindless Greek bigotry from loading onto my screen? I've been having a lot of problems with that lately.
                        12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                        Stadtluft Macht Frei
                        Killing it is the new killing it
                        Ultima Ratio Regum

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by KrazyHorse
                          Can you set Firefox to open new tabs to your homepage instead of to a blank page?
                          Tabbrowser Preferences extension handles that and more:
                          Add-ons for Firefox (en-US)
                          https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=158
                          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
                            ... do tell where it is .
                            blueprintit.co.uk
                            http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/buildid/nightly.html
                            This domain may be for sale!


                            It's a tool users of the "nightly" builds have used for a while.

                            When that extension is installed, it adds an item to the right-click/context menu of the extension manager called "Make compatible".

                            It basically forces extensions not flagged as working with 1.4 to work with them, and most good ones will. Use at your own risk.
                            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by KrazyHorse
                              Also, is there an extension to block mindless Greek bigotry from loading onto my screen? I've been having a lot of problems with that lately.
                              Install Greasemonkey (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/) and then write a script to modify posts from MarkG.

                              I'm very tempted to make one which replaces Mark's flag with a Macedonian flag.
                              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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