FireFox 1.5 RC3 Out

[jAkUp]

Let your browser update ;) No DL link yet.

[NightFire]

Cool. I thought only the nightly was out.

[jolle]

nothing is happening here (1.5 RC2), any way to manually "check for updates"?
just installed it..

[saturnotaku]

nothing is happening here (1.5 RC2), any way to manually "check for updates"?
just installed it..

Tools/options/advanced and hit the "check now" button under "software updates."

[jAkUp]

It is also under "help"

[jAkUp]

Here is also a DL link:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firefox_d2248.html

[macatak]

It's on Mozilla's main page now...
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

I'm sticking with Beta 1, any later version don't allow me to copy&paste on some forums

[retsam]

here is the ftp site for all the public builds....rc3 is at the bottom


http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

[Rakeesh]

This release is pretty nice, the back and forward browser navigation is a hell of a lot faster. Heres a changelog:

* 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.
* List of notable bug fixes since Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

[saturnotaku]

Flash is still broken with this release, though that's more Macromedia's fault. :mad:

[Tr1cK]

The only thing I have a problem with is the lack of googlebar. So I found a fix.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=26
Instead of going through the process of modifying the file, it looks as if it has already been done. I simply clicked the link and it installed after I OKed it with the blocker.

[stncttr908]

Flash is still broken with this release, though that's more Macromedia's fault. :mad:
Methinks I'll wait for the final in that case.

[Rakeesh]

Flash is still broken with this release, though that's more Macromedia's fault. :mad:

worksforme

I think you are probably having that issue with the adblock plugin. Try this:

tools > adblock > preferences > adblock options > then uncheck "obj-tabs"

Flashplayer 8 has some kind of security mechanism that prevents flash programs from playing if the "obj-tabs" option is enabled in adblock.

[saturnotaku]

Obj-tabs is disabled when using the Filterset.G updater. But when I uninstalled that and Adblock, everything worked. So it's definitely something with the extension - I'm using Adblock Plus so that may be part of the problem. It's not that big a deal, if I really need something with Flash, I can manually unblock it. Other than this little snafu (and thanks AlphaWolf for pointing that out) I really like this build. It's fast, stable and compatibility is up.

[SH64]

The nvnews extension is not supported with the Firefox 1.5RC3 anymore .. Clay ?

[CrazyIvan]

the final version will be released next tuesday (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcwelt.de%2Fnews%2Fon line%2F124826%2Findex.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools).

edit: the translation sucks, but i've only found a german source.