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[Antony]

Mozilla Foundations released Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1.

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC 1 release notes: (selected)

• Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
  
• 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.
  
• New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
  
• Many security enhancements.

Download Firefox 1.5 RC1:
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC 1 (Mac OS X )
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC 1 (Windows )
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC 1 (Linux )

Edit: unsticky, Fx 1.5 RC 2 released. Antony 11 11 2005

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5

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[Pu7o]

Screenshot here:

(Click image for full screenshot, 1280x1024)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

[Antony]

And the beautiful screenshot from Mac OS X:


UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

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[James]

Thanks for the update, Antony. It's very tempting but it's still a release candidate so I'll continue waiting. But I sure am getting anxious.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

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James
It's later than you think.

Firefox 3.5.3, IE 8

[DJGM]

Go for it! At release candidate stage, is no longer beta, but not quite final. This release is very close
to what'll soon be offered up as Firefox 1.5 final. As long as you install it in a seperate directory to
your main installation of Firefox 1.0.x, you should have no major problems with it at all . . .

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051026 SeaMonkey/1.1a

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[Antony]

[Fulvio]

I have been using beta2, and i got the update by way of Help|Check for Updates. I was warned that it would not be compatible with my latest roboform extention, which I got earlier, today. So, I wasted time uninstalling Roboform. The download was over 600Kb, and after rebooting rc1 started checking my extention, and checking, and checking. Five minutes was long enough, and, I clicked Cancel. I hope that it will behave as well as beta2.
I like the new features of 1.5, and so far, it has not conflicted with 1.0.7, as default browser. That was one of the biggest problems with Mozilla and Netscape, which, constantly grabbed the other's default.
If this continues, I may want to keep 1.0.7, when 1.5 becomes final.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

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[Ron Williams]

Can someone tell me if RC1 has repaired the java applet problems?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)

[Fulvio]

Which problem? Which version Java? I never had an applet problem.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Zone Alarm Firewall; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[Antony]

According to MOzilla Developer News, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 should be released as early as 11th November, depending on the feedback of RC 1.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/416.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.12

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[geffr]

I've been using RC1 for several days nowas my main browser. I'm getting an occasional crash, mostly on ebay & the same issues with fonts I mentioned with 1.05 beta 2. Other then that all seems ok. It does crash more on my Win 98 SE system then any other recent build, but still useable.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

[geffr]

One other comment for Win 98 users like myself; while this build is a LITTLE unstable, the ubiquitous Win 98 memory leak issues appear (subjectively) to be much improved with this release. Normally running NB Pro (Usenet file downloader) along with Firefox requires a reboot (or at minimum a ram flush) on my machine after a couple hours. That no longer appears to be the case.

Geff R

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

[Gregor]

I have been using Beta2 for a long time with SaFire 0.35 theme, PDF Download & Compact Menu without any problems. After installing PR1 Firefox was checking for compatibility for a long time, until the process was canceled.
In any case: Theme and Extensions are working just fine for the moment. Weird.



UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

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[Andrew T.]

I've been using Firefox 1.5 betas and release candidates as my primary browser for quite a few weeks, and I have found it to be reasonably stable, even on Windows 95 (!).

It has never crashed with an illegal operation dialogue yet; as such, I actually find it more stable than Firefox 1.0.x.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

[Mandrake]

I'm finding the recent Mozilla Firefox 1.5 builds to be more stable, and faster, than Firefox 1.0.x.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051102 Hypnopenguin Firefox/1.5

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