Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 out

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driz

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at first i couldnt quite see too much inprovement! apart from the better menus and better worded dialog boxes etc. i'm liking the location of the rss feed, it was out of the way before and people unaware wont of took any notice, now their intrigued to click and learn.

the best feature so far i think is something i'm not sure what has changed but it has cause my forums look perfect now, their we're some glitches before such as things a little off angle but now its fine, so hopefully that'll stay.

but that dotted box that appears when you click a link! dam thats annoying as if you have a link on the far right then the right border (which is 1px) makes a horizontal scrollbar appear cause the line is going off the page! so hopefully Mozilla will fix that!

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driz

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anyone else noticed the new error page on sites that it cant connect to? such as http://www.nothingisheresogoaway.com/

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whoah thats pretty cool! now they just need to work on the interface a little, IE needs to be more like IE7 with the URL at the top and the Files etc at the bottom... and then the tabs in between that.

EDIT: hey even better, try viewing the source!!!

in IE the error page is an actual HTML file, but in firefox its coded in, better i thinks...

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andychien2004

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I like this Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1, even though a lot of my extensions and themes ain't working at the moment. I'm not bothered with it cos they will get updated soon and be working again. I like the beta seems to be very quick, the web pages loads faster, then Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6. for me. I think it will be better than the new IE7.

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Caleb

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Your extensions are not "broken". They simply fail a compatibility test.

Every extension has a file called install.rdf, in that file there's a section called maxVersion. If maxVersion is lower than the current version, then Firefox automatically disables the extension because it considers it to be incompatible.

You can easily fix this, but do it at your own risk.. because even though the extensions will load, they might not be actually compatible with some of the changes in this version.

You can either wait for an updated version.. or hack the install.rdf yourselves.

Steps:

1. Close Firefox

2. Open %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<your profile>

3. Delete extensions.rdf

4. Go to the extensions folder.

5. Now you'll have to go to every folder there and edit its install.rdf file with a texteditor such as notepad.

6. You will see something like this:

    &lt;em:targetApplication&gt;
      &lt;Description&gt;
        &lt;em:id&gt;{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&lt;/em:id&gt;
        &lt;em:minVersion&gt;0.8&lt;/em:minVersion&gt;
        &lt;em:maxVersion&gt;1.0+&lt;/em:maxVersion&gt;
      &lt;/Description&gt;
    &lt;/em:targetApplication&gt;

Instead of that 1.0+ (or whatever you will have as the maxVersion) change it to 1.4, save the install.rdf.

Note: Firefox' current internal version is 1.4.. and once 1.5 Final is out, the internal version will change to 1.5, so you will have to do this again for all of the extensions.... If you think that by the time 1.5 Final is out the extension won't get updated, then change the maxVersion to 1.5 instead of 1.4.

After doing it for every extension, start Firefox and it should detect everything.

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trigger_my_passion

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Looks like a theme problem. Try switching back to default.

Am I the only one that finds this to be slower and worse than 1.0.6? The two extensions I use (Adblock and Filterset.G updater) work fine under 1.5b1 with no upgrading.

The new options panel is messed up for me though:

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Caleb

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Thanks. They'd better sort that out or i'm staying with 1.0.6. No way am I using luna just far firefox.

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The bug on this was reported many months ago, and people requested blocking, yet it was denied... I don't see this bug getting fixed for 1.5 Final.

I don't use luna either, but for me, only the bottom part of the "Privacy" pane is cut off, the whole prefwindow is more or less OK.

Are you using a theme in Firefox aswell ?

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Borbus

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Are you using a theme in Firefox aswell ?

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Not at the moment, I would be using Qute but I can't be bothered to look for a compatible one or hack it to make it work.

edit: Just noticed the new error pages, they're very nice, They have a try again button on them too which could be useful.

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supernova_00

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If you guys have just recently downloaded Firefox 1.5 beta 1, use a branch or trunk nightly build and you hate the way the new menus look...this extension is for you. Thanks to a bunch of folks over on mozillazine.org forums, we have put together this extension to bring back the classic menus, this is especially nice for all the Windows 2000 and below users and users of XP non-luna themes.

Download link

if the link isn't working copy and paste the link into the browser and hit enter. For some reason the link isn't triggering the install notification for me.

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IceDogg

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Is there any easy fix to get all extensions working without tedious editing?

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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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drgrudge

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Is there any easy fix to get all extensions working without tedious editing?

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IceDogg posted this at the Mozilla section:

With this version I had several extensions that was disabled as  not being compatible. I wanted to share an extension that will make these extensions work for you so you don't have to edit files to get them working. It's easy to do. It's called Nightly testers tools.

Edit: They are right this is a nightly, but I thought I would post this for when you need it. What you'll do is right click on the "incompatible" extensions in the EM and I think it's called enable or make compatible.. something like that. and then it will work.

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