Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 released

by Antony

Firefox 1.5Mozilla Foundations released Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1.

From Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC 1 release notes: (selected)

  • Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
  • 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.
  • New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
  • Many security enhancements.

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Download Firefox 1.5 RC1:
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC 1 (Mac OS X)
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC 1 (Windows)
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC 1 (Linux)

Screenshot of Firefox 1.5 RC 1:
Firefox 1.5 RC 1

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Posted by Antony Shen on November 1, 2005 8:27 PM

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