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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Ulatoh on December 01, 2005, 11:46:52 AM

Title: FIREFOX
Post by: Ulatoh on December 01, 2005, 11:46:52 AM

Firefox 1.5 is out. discuss.

Title: FIREFOX
Post by: lolfighter on December 01, 2005, 11:57:54 AM

What's there to discuss?

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Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on December 01, 2005, 12:53:01 PM

ZORRA EN FUEGO!

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Post by: Fewlio on December 01, 2005, 04:52:12 PM

It's not as broken so it is good, as in 1.0.7 was too broke for me to use(but the beta 1.5 worked oll). Final is much faster and efficient than the beta version, although I'm still having issues when it comes to embedded flash objects, I can hear but still not see. Seems to have fixed performance issues more than anything else. Final version broke my hammertime extension too, when it's just a stop button with a sound file.

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Post by: Malevolent on December 01, 2005, 07:24:43 PM

I guess I should check it out. Although, I probably won't until it pops up like crazy telling me there is a new version. Can you turn that off btw?

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Post by: LowCrawler on December 01, 2005, 07:25:30 PM

its FOR THE WIN

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Post by: DarkScythe on December 01, 2005, 11:09:39 PM

what changed exactly in 1.5? i'm using 1.0.7 and it seems fine.. tho for some reason sometimes it eats up all my CPU and i dunno why

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Post by: SwiftSpear on December 01, 2005, 11:47:57 PM

"blablabla is out, discuss" threads are really stupid when they don't include changelogs.

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Post by: holy_devil on December 02, 2005, 10:55:09 AM

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Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5:

    * 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.

http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/rele...prehensive.html (http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5-comprehensive.html)


changelogs =o enjoying the new version a bunch personally

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Post by: DarkScythe on December 02, 2005, 11:53:11 AM

hm sounds good, tho if that's the entire changelog it's kinda small lol
ability to reorder browser tabs? YES! lol

are you guys upgrading from 1.0.7 to 1.5 or from something else? thinking about upgrading but i dunno if all my extensions are compatible with 1.5 or not..
also dont feel like reconfigging lol

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Post by: Lightning Blue on December 02, 2005, 03:20:48 PM

IE 6.0 SP2 (winXP) with built in popup blocker.

Love it to death and no complaints at all.


You can say all you want about security holes and all that, but I keep it patched and ain't a dumb user on top of it.

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Post by: holy_devil on December 02, 2005, 05:39:27 PM

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IE 6.0 SP2 (winXP) with built in popup blocker.

Love it to death and no complaints at all.


You can say all you want about security holes and all that, but I keep it patched and ain't a dumb user on top of it.

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http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/12/02/2249220...tid=217&tid=172 (http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/12/02/2249220.shtml?tid=113&tid=217&tid=172)

just antoher reason why ie fails :p

also the plugins seem to switch fine, most are updated as well. new firefox autoscans for updated versions :o

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Post by: Fewlio on December 04, 2005, 07:44:48 PM

Hey I love IE also, but I just had way too many problems when using it. I'd still use IE right now if it didn't have a tendency to crash explorer whenever something went wrong, it's like a BSOD without all the stuff I loved about win98 :(. I miss win98.

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Post by: Dubbilex on December 06, 2005, 05:32:37 AM

If my theme is compatible, I'm sold.  Improved tabbed-browsing is cool and all, but I like my setup too much to change before they do.

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Post by: LowCrawler on December 10, 2005, 10:54:09 PM

i use noia 2.0, and its compatible and awesome :D

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Post by: devicenull on December 11, 2005, 11:27:45 AM

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IE 6.0 SP2 (winXP) with built in popup blocker.

Love it to death and no complaints at all.


You can say all you want about security holes and all that, but I keep it patched and ain't a dumb user on top of it.

[snapback]54458[/snapback]

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/12/02/2249220...tid=217&tid=172 (http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/12/02/2249220.shtml?tid=113&tid=217&tid=172)

just antoher reason why ie fails :p

also the plugins seem to switch fine, most are updated as well. new firefox autoscans for updated versions :o

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Woah, someone on ./ says IE is bad.  Thats never happened before!