Comments on: Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released

By: mark

mark — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:42:04 +0000

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

-mark

By: findpart

findpart — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:57:24 +0000

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

By: buzzer

buzzer — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:14:37 +0000

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)

By: Griffith

Griffith — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:35:05 +0000

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

By: Rowan Lewis

Rowan Lewis — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:54:02 +0000

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.

By: Griffith

Griffith — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:42:15 +0000

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

By: Rowan Lewis

Rowan Lewis — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 03:08:35 +0000

*cough* Doesn’t work eh?

Well, that’s really useful information, not.

By: David

David — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:03:59 +0000

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.

By: Griffith

Griffith — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:40:51 +0000

Doesn’t work, at least not for me.

By: Rowan Lewis

Rowan Lewis — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:17:41 +0000

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