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[beanboy89]

The Mozilla Foundation has made the second beta release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 available. Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is expected to be the last beta release, followed by at least one release candidate, and a final Mozilla Firefox 1.5 release in November.

[Alice]

Posted at http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7501
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Released
Friday October 7th, 2005

[DJGM]

Try as I might, it refuses to run . . .



That message always comes up, even though there's no other instances of Firefox running.
So, like it suggests, I reboot the computer. Which makes not a single shred of difference!

What gives?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 SeaMonkey/1.0a

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[Alice]

I believe that's the message you now get in Firefox 1.5 beta if a firefox process is still running OR if a parent.lock file exists in the profile folder. Try the following, from the suggestions to unlock your profile at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

[geffr]

I decided to give the beta a try. So far, it's subjectively a bit faster
then 1.07, although identical on actual speed tests. I installed to a
new folder, so am able to go back & forth between the beta & 1.07.

The only problem I've run into so far is an issue with not rendering an
oddly sized font tag <+1.5> that every other browser I've ever used has
rendered fine. Most of my themes & extensions are disabled, but it is a beta...

I wish there was an option to view & select specific privacy (form) data
to delete rather then all or nothing.

Very stable so far. It also seems to load a bit faster on Win 98.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

[Gregor]

Autoupdate function in F1.5beta1 did not perform an update, despite the "alert me" function enabled. I installed it over Beta 1 without any problems.
A few extensions, which I have installed were all updated - working:
- PDF Download
- Compact menu
- Reporter

I am using SaFire 0.35 Theme at the moment without any problems. At the moment Beta 2 is working fine & a bit faster than previous version.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

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[Alice]

[Fulvio]

This has nothing to do with Firefox, but it is close. I got the Thunderbird nightly of 10-20, yesterday, and, today the auto-update worked. The User Agent says that it is 1.5.

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

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