Firefox 1.5

Posted on November 30, 2005 by Jim Walton

Firefox 1.5 has just been released.  One year after 1.0 came out, which was a full version, non-beta, and over 100,000,000 downloads later, here we are.  Time to party in the streets.  I would give it some time to ensure that the kinks are worked out and allow some of the plug-ins catch up.  Here are some features:

  • New "drag and drop" feature for tabbed browsing helps to better organize page viewing.
  • Improved pop-up blocker screens users from more unwanted pop-up ads.
  • New reference search engine Answers.com is now included in the integrated Search box.
  • Improved Live Bookmarks feature enables easier discovery of and subscription to RSS feeds.
  • Improved Options interface makes it easier to adjust browser settings.

Go to their site to read the announcement.

 

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0 Responses to Firefox 1.5

  1. mary says:
    November 30, 2005 at 9:56 pm

    They did a major push on last minute testing yesterday, so it’ll be interesting to see if most of the kinks have been worked out.

    I downloaded it for kicks tonight and no problems so far (in the 30 minutes I’ve had it installed! LOL). A couple of my plugins didn’t work, but the main ones I use (del.icio.us, a web developer toolbar, etc) are fine. I’ll let you know in a few days how it’s going.

  2. djchuang says:
    December 1, 2005 at 10:04 am

    Thanks for the announcement! I’m not happy to hear mary’s comment that some plugins won’t work :( Have you downloaded 1.5 and taken it for a test drive? What do you think of the new features?

  3. mary says:
    December 1, 2005 at 11:18 am

    Here are my thoughts . . . :)

    It seems that I remember last time I ‘upgraded’ it was just a fresh install and I had to transfer over all my plug-ins. This time it was a true upgrade and all my plugins (well, the ones that work, anyway) are there.

    Personally, I like being able to move the tabs around. (You can do that in Opera, too) Jim told me last night that there was a plug in before that would do that, but I didn’t have it.

    I think the popup blocker may be a little better. I was starting to get a lot of pop-ups again (annoying little critters!) I just tried out one page where I got several popups last week and there are no more! Woo Hoo!

    The ‘options’ area is a little more user-friendly. They’ve redeisgned it and it makes more sense to me.

    Anyway, that’s my 12 hour review. ;)