Firefox 1.5 released

YES!!! The long awaited sequel is here. Get the official update of Firefox. It’s available on Windows, OS X, Linux and some 20 odd language versions. 20 times 3 makes 60, not? See all versions.

This release comes with a revamped preference panel, tabbed browsing enhancements, loads of bugfixes, faster back- and forward, … in short it just got better. How much, you’ll have to find out yourself.

BUT If you plan to upgrade, please make sure none of your critical extensions break. If they do, persuade the original extension creator to fix his/her extension ASAP. Or take a look at the Mozilla Quality post: “Some help testing Extensions for Firefox 1.5“.
Personally, the only extension that hasn’t been updated for me, are the Furl Tools.

And as of this release the new mozilla.com site is live as well. (As opposed to the former .org one)

On a sidenote: I expect the Portable Firefox version to be released very soon.

Go Get It!

Update: This final release seems to have the same timestamp of FF RC3. Which some of us have been running since November 11th. I must admit, I have not run into issues since. Some extensions reserved.
And it seems mozilla.com is favoured over mozilla.org. I see former links pointing to .org redirected to the .com.

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8 Responses to “Firefox 1.5 released”

1. John T. Haller Says:
   November 30th, 2005 at 9:44 am

   Portable Firefox 1.5 Final will be coming out later today. Until then, you can keep using Portable Firefox 1.5 RC3 since, as you noticed… Firefox 1.5 Final and Firefox 1.5 RC3 are the same. A few final changes are being made to Portable Firefox before the 1.5 Final release. Stay tuned

2. Mark Hutton Says:
   November 30th, 2005 at 11:03 am

   Hi,

   I’d just like to mention that I have created a modified version of furltools that works with Firefox 1.5+ perfectly..

   It’s available here: http://www.influenced.net/articles/2005/11/29/furl-toolbar-furltools-firefox-1.5/

   It’s a nice stop-gap solution until they release an official version

3. Caspar Says:
   November 30th, 2005 at 2:12 pm

   @John: Well that’s even sooner than anticipated.

   @Mark: The *hacked* Furl Tools seem to be working. Thanks. I’ve mailed them a while ago and they said they were working on it.

4. John Says:
   December 5th, 2005 at 5:31 pm

   Nice release but still buggy. Putting my laptop in standby mode while FF is running is a definate no-no: CPU shoots to 99% usage when I switch it back on.

5. Caspar Says:
   December 7th, 2005 at 12:29 am

   Hi John,

   Although Firefox looks like the culprit, it may well be the OS’s fault, or hardware or rogue extension, or … (who knows)

   Personally I never use standby on a Wintel laptop as it’s never worked for me. Windows never comes back up or I have trouble like you described.
   On the contrary. My iBook constantly falls asleep and comes back up with Firefox running. And I never experienced a lock-up like you.

   But let’s assume it is Firefox’s fault. A quick look at Bugzilla with: ‘firefox standby‘ shows other people having the same trouble. Did you contribute to these bugreports already? It might help getting this fixed for you. (The more people report, the greater the urgency. :-))

6. Jack Thomas Says:
   December 7th, 2005 at 6:36 pm

   Regarding Furl

   Well,
   I guess I like it; but one of the things I liked best with the previous software was using Furl and the icons. The icons have disappeared, I can’t seem to get them back, and my Extensions function shows that Furl is incompatible with FF1.5.

   Am I just being dumb here, or is there a work-around, or will I just have to wait?

   Thanks,
   jack@troamail.org

7. John Says:
   December 7th, 2005 at 7:04 pm

   Hi Casper,

   Hadn’t reported yet but will do so.

   The one extension I really miss is Checky (the validator).

8. Caspar Says:
   December 7th, 2005 at 10:18 pm

   @Jack Thomas: Take a look at comment #2. That’ll do it.

   @John: I’m not familiar with Checky. In the mean time you can validate with Web Developer toolbar and inside Firefox with HTML Validator. I use these on a daily basis.

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