Mozilla Introduces Firefox 1.5 and Ups the Ante in Web Browsing
New automatic update system makes Firefox an "install once and forget it" application for all types of Web users
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Nov. 29, 2005 - One year after the debut of Firefox 1.0, and more than 100 million downloads later, Mozilla Corp. today released Firefox 1.5, the latest version of its acclaimed open source Web browser, available now as a free download from www.getfirefox.com. Firefox 1.5 builds upon the success of its predecessor to deliver an improved browser with significant performance and usability upgrades, security and privacy enhancements, best-in-class support for Web standards, and greater customization options.
“With dozens of enhancements, Firefox 1.5 will draw many new users to the improved Web experience it affords,” said Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla Corporation. “Firefox is proof of our passion for promoting choice and innovation on the Web and making the Internet accessible and productive. Firefox 1.5 is the easiest browser to install, use, customize, and keep up-to-date and secure.”
For those of you who want the Noia 2.0 Theme remeber to DL the new version.
Also, some people have been complaining of the flash not loading. This is in conjunction with AdBlock. Go to Tools->Adblock->Preferences Then click on Adblock Options Then un-check Obj-tabs
Just downloaded it! Works great - it's very stable, and runs faster on my PC! Also, when you can't access a page (due to a e.g. timeout), you don't get the annoying pop-up box that tells you that - instead, you are redirected to an internal firefox error page that you can view later if you are browsing something else at the moment (the page contains a "try again" button - neat!).
Unfortunately, some existing plugins that you may have installed with your old firefox version cannot be used with the 1.5 version Well, in time, I'm sure that the authors of your favorite plugins will release a 1.5 compatible version soon
Anyway, highly recommended! Straight to the download page everybody!
I had two skins: "Brushed" and "Silver", when I checked what was going on inside the "themes" option (under the "tools" menu), I found out that they were grayed out with a small label underneath it - "Disabled - not compatible with...".
Hopefully, there will be new versions of these skins, compatible with FF 1.5
Or have they included the tuning in this new version of Firefox?
Might have to snag me a copy of 1.5 later.
You could do the way told in that 'tutorial' or if you want to speed up your connection and page rendering without having to go into the about:config menu you also could use a great extension called Fasterfox in which you can do the same:
There are 5 settings (which you can set it in ->edit ->prefereces-> fasterfox) namely: 1 default = non optimized 2 couteous = rendering tweaks only, no increase on web server load 3 optimiced = network optimizations for increased performance within the RFC specs 4 turbo charged = Maximum performance, exeeds RFC specs 5 costum = advanced options
Following info will be quoted since it commes from the extension site itself
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Quick Description
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.
* Added German (de-DE) localization. Special thanks to Gerald Frankl and Oliver Roth. * Added Spanish(es-ES) localization. Special thanks to Raul Gonzalez Duque. * Updated Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) localization. Special thanks to Marcelo Ghelman. * Increased max version to 1.5.
Well what can you say about it really apart from that its like firefox 1 but better, thats about it its faster more stable (not that version 1 wasn't stable) and it has a few cool (but more importantly usefull) features. which are implemented very well and add to the excellent useability of the original version, I haven't really found any obvious flaws yet apart from some extension incapatibility but thats not really a problem with firefox. Lets just hope the extended advertising capaign works and more people at least try this great alternate browser.
Has anyone else have a problem where their scroll bar has disapeared? Because I updated my firefox to 1.5 and I don't have a scroll bar anymore. I don't know if its a setting or something with the theme I have... If anyone could give me some help, that would be greatly appreciated.
With the sites I visit on a daily basis I haven't noticed much difference at all in the way that firefox functions. All I could notice were a few interface changes that weren't too much different from how they were before.
http://people.mozilla.com/~beltzner/overview-of-firefox3.swf I saw this a few days ago but it
recently popped up on Digg. Thought it was a cool look at Firefox 3. The new address bar seems to
be the biggest addition to Firefox 3 and honestly I hate it with a passion. I use Firefox 2 on my
windows system, but both work and my roomates computer ( which I use more then she does. >. First I
don't want my porn history randomly popping up while I'm searching for "big" trucks or
something ridiculous like that. Also it's kind of intrusive as it just seems out o...
Hi, I've tried to make a webpage in HTML using the frameset tag. Here is the code of the
webpage Sai's Makeshift Wiki And it's not displaying in Firefox. (I
mean is shows a blank page) It will show up in safari (I'm a mac user), all pages individually
work on firefox, just not the above page. Any ideas as to why? Thanks...
Hello, I have a question to ask since the 1st day of my download of firefox ... Whenever i open a
pdf file online using firefox, the firefox is get not responding and my comp got hanged ... i have
to manually end the firefox program via windows task manager .. I tried to wait the pdf to load, but
it seems that it takes forever .. so im guessing it's the trail version's bug .. but after a
few updates, I still have the problems with my firefox ... Is this my computer's problem or
firefox problem ? If it's a firefox bug, it's impossible that no1 report ...
If you are using broadband connection and using Firefox then follow the simple steps provided below
to make your Firefox work faster for you: The catch here is by enabling pipelining in Firefox you
can tell your browser to make several request at the same time, which means the site will load
faster. 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and press Enter. Scroll down and look for the
following entries: - network.http.pipelining - network.http.pipelining.maxrequests -
network.http.proxy.pipelining 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.pipelining"...
If you've given the newly-released Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 a spin, you've probably noticed that
there aren't a whole lot of eye-popping new features. However, there are a few subtle
improvements that make it a nice upgrade. In addition to built-in spellchecker, Firefox 2.0 also
has close buttons on every individual tab - a much-needed feature (especially on Mac OS X.)
There's also better (but still not great) RSS integration. When you click on a site's feed
icon (at the far end of the address bar), a preview page with the option to choose your feed rea...
Though this ahs been out for a while thsoe who dont have it get it-.- this explorer blocks pretty
mcuh every pop up... better then those pop up blcokers... to get firefox dl it from the following
site provided below FireFox ...
I don't know if it has been posted or not, but Firefox 1.01 is now officially on the mozilla
site, http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ there are no new features, but there are numbers
of bug fixes and security patches. you should upgrade from 1.0 asap....
I hope this wasn't already posted. I searched the forums for it, but didn't see it... so
anway... I got this from another forum.... We all know how excellent Firefox is... But want it to
be even faster? If so, follow the instructions below. 1:- Type about:config in the address field.
2:- Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true". 3:- Set the value of
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100". 4:- Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to
"true" 5:- Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0" Line 5 you might notice is not the...
ISP speakeasy add Firefox as default browser, http://www.speakeasy.net/software/firefox/ it is
said speakeasy uses a customized version firefox, at first I thought they grab the code and make a
version of themselves, then I check this webstie out, LOL, they just made a extension to the
standard firefox, well you can call that a customized version....
I have stopped using firefox a month ago because it lags or hangs my system and eats soo many
resources... so I have decided to use opera (the beta version) it's fast but it renders a little
fast but full of errors on the page... means that sometimes the layout of the page is not good as
mozilla engine... or gecko engine... so I have decided to use Moox.ws build... it's fast!
god it's fast!!! try it for your self... you won't loose anything!
http://www.moox.ws try it for yourself today! P.S Is there a browser available for win...
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