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Firefox 1.5 Final released - 11/29/2005
Thanks alot Chachazz, for the heads-up!
Firefox 1.5
is the next version of our award-winning Web browser.
Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5:- Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
- Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
- Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
- Improvements to popup blocking.
- Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
- Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
- Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.
- Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows.
- Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
- Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
- Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
- New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
- Many security enhancements.
The Burning Edge» has more detailed lists of new features and notable bug fixes.
Release Notes» | Download»
Available on ftp:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...ses/1.5/win32/
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...x/releases/1.5
You can also download Firefox 1.5 from here:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product...win&lang=en-US
download the file Firefox Setup 1.5.exe
Last edited by Mobo; 11-30-2005 at 12:52 PM.
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