Firefox 1.5 Complete Released

Posted by Sean Fallon on November 29, 2005
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As this article was being written, the final release of Firefox 1.5 had not made it’s way to the Mozilla website - but Nerd Approved has managed to find the file online. So, if you don’t want to wait for the update you can get the download here. The original version was found on Mozilla’s FTP site.

At this point, we are not sure how this release differs from the 1.5 RC 3 release that came out on November 18th - but my guess is that any tweaks were minor. I have been running RC3 since that time, and it appeared to be relatively flawless - as does the full 1.5 release.

The list of changes as of the 1.5 RC3 release are as follows:

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.

Update: Firefox 1.5 was officially released today (11/30/05) and is now available via the Mozilla website.

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