Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC2

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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2, or RC2, is now available for download. This release of the next major Firefox update is aimed at testers, extension/theme authors and Web developers. The final release of Firefox 1.5, which will be widely promoted to end-users, is scheduled for release sometime this month.

This release does not contain any major new features since RC1. There were several fixes to the new automated update system. RC1 users that want to help test software update, should wait for the automatic update to be triggered sometime in the next few days. The incremental update from RC1 to RC2 is just less than half a megabyte.

Download: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC2 | 5.0MB

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(3 replies) #1 Mad_Griffith on 11 Nov 2005 - 18:34

nice! can't wait for the italian release

when will the FINAL be released?

#1.1 danlu on 11 Nov 2005 - 18:41

sometime this month

#1.2 Hurmoth on 11 Nov 2005 - 18:58

Won't be long... I think this is the last RC, unless they find some major issues with this one. I say within the next week, maybe two at the most.

#1.3 AJCrowley Esq on 14 Nov 2005 - 15:29

My RC2 just updated to what appears to be final, though I don't see it available for download yet.

EDIT: Or not....

Last edited by 8585 on 14 Nov 2005 - 16:03

(5 replies) #2 icat on 11 Nov 2005 - 19:13

Hell...if they release v.1.5 final soon, I gonna kill myself: I've downloaded v.1.0.7 some days ago, then will have to d/l again...eh...

#2.1 Hurmoth on 11 Nov 2005 - 19:15

It's only 5MB, unless you're dial-up, shouldn't be a huge deal... certinaly not worth killing yourself over

#2.2 Noxerus on 11 Nov 2005 - 19:15

But after you download 1.5, you won't have to download any new versions!

#2.3 Hurmoth on 11 Nov 2005 - 19:29

Right, completely forgot about that

The new automated update system will download all new updates for you and prompt for you to install them at your convience. (Most updates will probably be around half a megabyte to a full meg)

#2.4 VLR on 11 Nov 2005 - 19:55

Automated download? Finally, that way they will stop circulating wrong numbers of time FF was downloaded.

#2.5 Airlink on 11 Nov 2005 - 20:20

OK, thanks for the advance warnining of your impending suicide, icat.

#3 cork1958 on 11 Nov 2005 - 19:46

1.07 all the way to 1.5? I guess I'm going to have to learn to like Firefox a little more than before, seeing it's installed as default on Ubuntu Linux. There's also the Mozilla browser, which I think I like better. Can't get that stupid Opera to install AND put the icon where it's supposed to go. Got that to work on 1 machine correctly, but can't on other 3 for some reason. If it isn't going to install TOTALLY correctly, I'm not going to use. I can start it with a simple run command though. Just isn't right though!! I have to admit, I like Firefox better on Linux than Windows, for sure.

(3 replies) #4 Computer Guru on 11 Nov 2005 - 19:58

Guys, I have found 2 major glitches in RC2. I need to submit them ASAP. Can someone tell me where to go?

#4.1 tiagosilva29 on 11 Nov 2005 - 21:20

Simple, man.

Go to Bugzilla.
Search your bugs. If they're not reported, then do it.

#4.2 supernova_00 on 11 Nov 2005 - 22:09

explain what they are so i can get someone to look into it if its not already known.

#4.3 Computer Guru on 13 Nov 2005 - 07:45

ok, i went there and i'm disgusted. response was fast.
i filed FF breaking XHTML + CSS Div designs if you have any css ppadding values.
it was quicly filed as a duplicate of a bug that existed since ONE POINT ONE
and they say: fixes available
1) change code so it works in FF but breaks in IE
2) Leave it broken

I gave them a piece of my mind.... why dan't they jsut make it work like it did in 1.0.X?????

(1 reply) #5 insanekiwi on 11 Nov 2005 - 19:58

thanks for the update

now i just gotta wait for my localized version.

#5.1 WindowsNT on 15 Nov 2005 - 08:40

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.

Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

Local builds appear to be out, my auto-update kicked in and installed it

(1 reply) #6 CrisCr0ss on 11 Nov 2005 - 20:31

Can we get them extensions ported already jeez

:edit:
all my extensions are working fine with Nightly Tester Tools...

Last edited by 97802 on 11 Nov 2005 - 20:40

#6.1 DELTA75329 on 12 Nov 2005 - 20:05

Sorry for the n00b question, but I was wondering how can I go about doing the same. I assume I need the nightly tester tools - where do I find those?

(6 replies) #7 drgrudge on 11 Nov 2005 - 20:43

Still I have the blinking cursor all over the page of the browsing area

I thought they would fix this bug, when they updated from RC1 to RC2.

#7.1 SQ1 on 11 Nov 2005 - 21:21

Are u sure that's a firefox problem? I never seen that on mine...

#7.2 Airlink on 11 Nov 2005 - 21:52

Well, it is Release Candidate software, after all. You all know it's not final, so don't expect perfection yet.
That comes with the 1.5.x releases.. (Just kidding. 2.0 is already in the works.)

#7.3 imarubberducky on 11 Nov 2005 - 22:23

um, thats a feature of firefox - not a bug. Tools>Options>Advanced>General>Allow text to be selected using the keyboard.

#7.4 Spitfire_x86 on 11 Nov 2005 - 22:29

It can be also enabled/disabled using F7 key

#7.5 bush on 11 Nov 2005 - 22:43

yeah, annoyed me to, but it was just a simple f7 switch

#7.6 drgrudge on 12 Nov 2005 - 02:32

imarubberducky,
Thanks a lot man. The "bug" is fixed now

(1 reply) #8 mikeyj on 11 Nov 2005 - 20:54

i hope they hurry up with the good release soon

#8.1 Airlink on 11 Nov 2005 - 21:54

You meant the "Final" or "RTM" build, right?
Should be out soon, but it's hard to say exactly when. It will be finished when it's finished and that's all I'm saying.

(7 replies) #9 bush on 11 Nov 2005 - 22:42

but it's pretty bad. resource hog and slow. they have to do something with it or else i'm switching.

#9.1 djurbino on 12 Nov 2005 - 01:02

re : resource hog

That's because IE is nothing more than a GUI for MS' html rendering engine, whereas FF contains actual features. If you include all the 3rd party apps and tools that you have to run with IE to get it to perform the same functions as FF, it's a resource hog too.

#9.2 altecxp on 12 Nov 2005 - 02:06

how does that explain Firefox using 150+MB of memory? with out any plug-ins or anythign

#9.3 Eclipse™ on 12 Nov 2005 - 02:32

QUOTE

It only uses ~30MB for me, and I've never seen it go above 50.

#9.4 Hurmoth on 12 Nov 2005 - 04:01

Firefox isn't slow for me, but it does eat a lot of memory for me though. I'm currently up to 68MB right now with no tabs and no extensions... if I open up more tabs then it climbs to 100+ MB which is ridiculous.

(But that isn't going to make stop using it though)

#9.5 Airlink on 12 Nov 2005 - 08:50

Oh yeah, with my 2048 MB of DDR2 that just makes me SO concened about FF being a "resouce hog."
I'm sitting here writing this blurb with Firefox and a Flash animation playing on a second webpage on monitor #2 and I'm still only using 5% of my phyisical RAM. Those of you crawling along with 32-256 MB need not apply, but honestly: Who in their right mind still runs with less than 512 MB of RAM? What, the DIMMs aren't cheap enough for you yet?

#9.6 Hurmoth on 12 Nov 2005 - 15:53

There's still a lot of businesses that only buy 256-512MB, my company is one of them. Shoot we just recently started buying systems with HyperThreading in them

#9.7 Ned on 14 Nov 2005 - 03:41

I have the latest nightly build with three tabs open taking up 33 MB...

It went up to 72 MB with 18 tabs open...

The memory will probably increase if I shuffle through them some...

Nope, actually now I'm down to 64 MB....

I have nine extentions installed by the way...

Closing the tabs doesn't free the memory up though...

But clearing the cache does. I'm back down to 37 MB.

Last edited by 76077 on 14 Nov 2005 - 03:58

(1 reply) #10 warwagon on 12 Nov 2005 - 02:17

The Update featuere in Firefox works SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO well i'm really impressed, now it really can reach the masses

#10.1 Ned on 14 Nov 2005 - 03:52

It's pretty good for the typical updates from beta to rc1 to rc2, but if your using nightly builds you quickly find that if you don't update for a week you are better off downloading the full version rather than each and every nightly update up to the current build date. (7 updates and restarts)

#11 Coneneo on 12 Nov 2005 - 03:46

25MB here. BTW, I'm glad they fixed the auto update feature. Partial update from beta2 to RC1 didn't work for me.

(2 replies) #12 e2zippo on 12 Nov 2005 - 08:07

123MB here, and climbing, two tabs open, what's the deal!

#12.1 mr_demilord on 12 Nov 2005 - 12:55

Must be something wrong with your PC, it is 25MB here with 2 tabs open.

#12.2 altecxp on 12 Nov 2005 - 20:20

Every machine I use Fx on goes over 100MB at some point, Win Xp, 2000, Older systems and newer. It happens on all of them, and it gets worse when I visit Neowin.

#13 Lee69 on 12 Nov 2005 - 11:00

thanks it auto updated for me.

#14 greg098 on 12 Nov 2005 - 11:20

33MB here

#15 dacbo on 12 Nov 2005 - 20:24

it still hasnt auto-updated for me...

didnt for RC1 either

could it be 'cos i'm behind a proxy?

(3 replies) #16 Quick Reply on 13 Nov 2005 - 11:43

I installed it, but it doesn't say anywhere that it's RC2. As far as visually, it looks like it's the final version.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.

Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

#16.1 ScorpionKing on 13 Nov 2005 - 13:47

i wouldn't count on it. they had to do a emergency respin to taken in a couple of fixes that fix a couple of crashes.so expect a higher number than 20051107 on the final build. so you may have to redownload for the final version.

#16.2 2xSilverKnight on 13 Nov 2005 - 17:51

omg stop this misinformation .. youworse than CNN lol

you will be auto-updated to the final when it's out.

#16.3 ScorpionKing on 14 Nov 2005 - 01:49

2xSilverKnight,they corrected them selfs the info it's been corrected. so either way people can get it by autoupdate or by download. ff 1.5 final should be released in a couple of days.

Last edited by 97844 on 14 Nov 2005 - 03:59

#17 versiondub on 14 Nov 2005 - 03:31

I wish they would make the cursors more congruent with OS X - they look so contrived now. The GUI itself needs to be revamped in order for me to even think about using it instead of Safari.

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