Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released


 

Need I say more? Only one small warning, all or almost all your plugins will probably cease to work, well until they’re updated at least.


 

10 Responses to Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released

  1. Rowan Lewis says:

    I’ve a small blog entry that will help you get those extensions working anyway: Extensions In Deer Park

  2. Griffith says:

    Doesn’t work, at least not for me.

  3. David says:

    1.5 Beta is pretty good. Faster, less memory leak, moveable tabs. :) I love it. The good thing is that I am not dependant on any plugins, so it is great for me.

  4. Rowan Lewis says:

    *cough* Doesn’t work eh?

    Well, that’s really useful information, not.

  5. Griffith says:

    The extensions don’t work, nor does the work-around Rowan mentioned, not the program itself.

  6. Rowan Lewis says:

    The workaround does work :)

    Some extensions require you set the value to 1.0 or 1+, and some extensions just won’t work at all.

  7. Griffith says:

    Allow me to re-phrase: The workaround didn’t work for me ;)

  8. buzzer says:

    Much of the extensions work, just by changing the ‘max-version’ entry in the ‘install.rdf’ file in the extension xpi package. However, two extensions very useful to me are not working:
    MenuX and File title.
    (Why ‘File title’ is not a default feature in firefox is beyond me)
    Hope they will come out with updates soon.

    Btw, my greatest disappointment with this firefox beta is that RSS handling in is still very poor! It even got worse!
    –They moved the icon up to the address bar for no reason, and now, without submenu, you cannot choose what kind of RSS you want to link to in case there’s more than one in the page;
    –all the rss live bookmarks are still always updated without my consent as I launch the browser (when I am on a slow connection this is a nightmare);
    –there are no options at all for RSS in general, and the about:config entries for RSS are still useless;
    –there’s no easy way to ‘create live bookmark’, via a button (you still have to go to bookmark manager every time!!! this is, like, crazy!!) and you cannot import OPML! Thunderbird can, c’mon! (But also Thunderbird has incredible flaws in handling RSS, like that you have to forcefully update all the RSS at once)

  9. findpart says:

    huge memory leak issue with version 1.5 when using tabs under 5 of them but browsing for hrs.

  10. mark says:

    Get the latest Firefox 1.5 beta2 menux on my site: http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=mozilla&content=c_menux_install.php

    -mark

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