Firefox 1.5 Officially Released

Firefox 1.5 has been officially released by the Mozilla organization. In addition to the official release announcement, Mozilla has also launched a new site for Firefox and Thunderbird at www.mozilla.com

Firefox 1.5 introduces several new features, including an improved software update system, faster Back / Forward page navigation, a new options to clear private browsing data, drag-and-drop reordering of browser tabs, a redesigned Options/Preferences window and more robust popup blocking. Standards support is also improved, with support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JavaScript 1.6 and additional CSS properties. Accessibility is much improved (including new DHTML accessibility features), security has been enhanced and Mac OS X support has also been improved.

As many have suspected, RC3 and the final release are one and the same according to the Burning Edge.

SpreadFirefox is also gearing up to launch Firefox Flicks, which looks to be user-submitted video testimonials promoting Firefox.