November 29th, 2005
Mozilla Set to Push Firefox 1.5
By Chief Gadgeteer, Gizmos for Geeks
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
The Mozilla Foundation is set to release the latest version (1.5) of the Firefox browser soon (quite possibly today!). If you can’t wait, you can download and try out Release Candidate 3. Some of the new features that you can look forward to in FF 1.5 will include auomated updates, tab reordering (cool - I have an extension to do that now), pop-up blocking improvements, better support for Mac OS X, lots of security enhancements, and even better support for Web Standards. The Mozilla Foundation is set to push the latest release even more so than they did with Firefox 1.0, by producing a more “consumer-oriented” website that is geared more to the average user, and a community marketing site where folks can create and upload their own videos describing their use of Firefox. Additionally, Mozilla is promising more frequent releases: Firefox 2.0 in the middle of 2006 and Firefox 3 in the first quarter of 2007.
Read the entire article over at GizmosForGeeks.com.
Bill King says:
I’m wondering if they’ve fixed the memory management issues yet. Closing down fifteen tabs = 0 reduction in memory usage (and when that’s 300+M of a 512Mb system, that’s a lot of wasteage and unnecessary paging).
November 29th, 2005 at 4:23 pm
Bread says:
Firefox 1.5 now shows CSS errors in the console. You might want to fix these:
Error: Expected end of value for property but found ‘/’. Error in parsing value for property ‘font-size’. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.realtechnews.com/blog/wp-content/themes/rtnewsv2/style.css
Line: 153
Error: Error in parsing value for property ‘font’. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.realtechnews.com/blog/wp-content/themes/rtnewsv2/style.css
Line: 322
December 1st, 2005 at 7:44 am