Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 out


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Download here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...releases/1.5b1/

Direct link to Win32 build: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...%20Beta%201.exe

Release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/re...s/1.5beta1.html (thanks fro0ty)

wait for them to add in the exe files and such ;)

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/me wonders if they will put the RSS support back

but I think not. It's been scrapped from 1.5 and will be in "The Next Big Thing" aka 2.0

Edit : Oh dammit. They completely removed RSS support :angry: Edit 2 : Actually, there's some kind of strange RSS support in Firefox 1.5. You can add live bookmarks and they link you directly to the page.. I guess it isn't a bad thing after all.

But they finally updated their menus to look more like other XP-applications in the default theme!! Woohoo!! I waited a long time for that! It's looking great.

Edited by PsykX

Just installed the Mac version. Nice clean installation; typical drag-n-drop into Applications. Started ok. I'm able to post this message ok ;). Think I'll still have preference for Safari, due to integrated spell checker. I know that Firefox has a spell checking extension out there, but it really doesn't compare if you ask me.

Ummm.... hmmm... looks nice :).

It is cool how much choice there is with web browsers these days, across all platforms.

It's supported in some kind of way, completely different from Safari though.

Edit : The updates.... there's a bunch of them

Gecko rendering engine updated (good for website developers especially, they can do some more stuff that would not display well with firefox before)

Options menu better

Tabs drag and drop

Better support for Mac OS X

etc... I'm 100% sure you'll find this information if you google it or if you search through neowin.

if any of your extensions or themes not working with this beta try out this extension

http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/f...id/nightly.html

when u got it installed, right click on ur extension or theme and click make compatabile (spelling?) Ive done it to Tabbrowsing Preferences and AquaFox theme!

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