Firefox 1.5beta1

...is out:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

Been using it for a little while now and not noticed any issues. Not noticed anything particularly new and improved about it either. A couple of sites that had problems with Firefox before now render correctly. Also like the "Report Broken Website" menu option you can use to inform the Firefox team about non-standards compliant sites

One slight snag is that most of the existing themes and extensions haven't yet been marked as 1.5beta1 compatible so you can't use them. Since my favourite theme (Qute) is amongst those I've had to make the switch to the iFox theme which I may end up sticking with. Makes FireFox look just like Safari on a Mac!

Michael.

 

I wonder if scrolling DIVs will now work properly in Firefox.

 

Give me a link to an example and I'll tell you

 

I downloaded firefox for my new laptop the other day. It seems fine to me! The only thing is that with this laptop the scrolling thing (the side of the track pad should be like a scroll bar) doesn't seem to work in either Opera or FireFox. Any ideas?

 

I've used it for two or three weeks and it works.
A couple of changes like being able to drag and drop tabs so as to reorder them across the page plus a small image (v small icon like picture) displays on the left hand part of the tab - it can catch you out if the image on page is hidden the image on the tab is not!
Paging back and forth seem a lot quicker, bookmarks are automaticaly backed up each day an stored in your profile and nothing to do with the new release but I am quite fond of the NoScript extention.

As I only use a small subset of functions and extensions for what I do each day it looks like a winner.

Is this the same as making SlashDot look OK?

 

Wonder if my Logitech Marble mouse track ball will now work in it, the scroll doesn't work in firefox at the moment, would like to see that fixed.

 

I thought that feature (the image on the tab), had been about for a while. Being able to reorganize tabs is a good thing.

Firefox ran great on my desktop, but seems to take aggggggggges to start up on the laptop.

 

Tenson, the scroll wheel on my Microsoft mouse works perfectly well with Firefox on my PC. Strange that the "edge scrolling" feature of your trackpad doesn't work with FF or Opera, I thought that sends the same signals as a scrollwheel.

Michael.

 

Strange indeed! I just use the up and down arrows instead lol! Still if anyone has a bright idea.

 

Seems quicker to me.

 

I'm using 1.0.7 which I think is the current release, so what happened to 1.1.x to 1.4.x?

 

Always bugged me that the programmatic browser name of Firefox computed as "Netscape Navigator 5.0" or similar.

 

I've never managed to get the email notifier working on Broadband either.

 

Actually,I'm struggling with the 1.5,I keep getting a blank page

 

1.5beta1 does seem to be a bit quicker...but then I recently upgraded from 1Mbit to 4Mbit ADSL so that might have something to do with it

Michael.

 

don't seem to be able to drag and drop tabs

 

I'm not sure all the extensions are available Mo.

Michael,I'm on 2mb and its definately faster than the previous version,although I do occassionally get a blank page

 

No probs with dragging and dropping tabs here (that's not an extension Saab, it's a feature of the new release). Can't say it's a feature I was dying to get my hands on though. So you can move the tabs around, big deal!

Michael.

 

Ok,cheers

I doubt I will ever have the need to drag and drop a tab,that sadly makes me feel IT inadequate.

Miles better than IE,and very few sites have a problem now,can't remember the last time I had a problem.Egg still struggles though.

 

I have spent the day using Opera as thats free now, but its not open source.