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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Firefox 1.5 RC1 - Yes, That Means "Nue"

Mozilla just released a new version of Firefox, 1.5 Release Candidate 1.

RC1 is, of course, the development extension of 1.5 Betas 1 & 2 and fixes some of the bugs found in both of its previous incarnations.

Here's a quick run down of what's new:
  • 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.
  • Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
  • Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.
  • Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
  • Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
  • Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
  • New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
  • Many security enhancements.
  • List of notable bug fixes since Firefox 1.5 Beta 2
Be warned, though, some of your extensions may not work with this latest release. I'm still waiting for some of mine to get updated for 1.5 Beta 2.

Anywho, check out both the Release Notes and the download page for more info.

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