update yo shit

it's only been released on the internal software updates through firefox (meaning it's on their FTP, and not on the website yet)

so you can get it from here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.5.exe

11/29/2005 5:49:13 PM

^I run software update in firefox and i dont get promped to d/l 1.5...

and is that link newer than 1.5 rc3?

11/29/2005 5:58:30 PM

now at http://www.mozilla.com

11/29/2005 6:18:10 PM

Too bad Opera is better. Wasn't the 8.5 release of Opera just released?

11/29/2005 6:26:24 PM

Quote :

"Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs"

thank you jesus

[Edited on November 29, 2005 at 6:29 PM. Reason : ^ and you can see how much people cared about that]

11/29/2005 6:29:14 PM

And Opera has had that for how long? Plus Opera is still faster and blocks ALL pop-ups.

11/29/2005 6:33:43 PM

Opera is at 8.5 and Firefox is only at 1.5?
Why that must mean that Opera is 5.667 times better than Firefox!

11/29/2005 6:49:13 PM

^ lol gg

11/29/2005 6:55:20 PM

wtf ive been able to drop and arrange tabs forever..must of been plugin. ive been able to do that since day 1 as far as i remember

11/29/2005 9:52:41 PM

^x8 found the ans to my own question. its newer than rc3

11/29/2005 10:13:56 PM

avant......

11/29/2005 10:21:29 PM

I CANNOT INSTALL ANY EXTENSIONS WITH FIREFOX 1.5

it tells me to enable software installation, i choose to ignore warning and/or add the site to the exception list, still doesn't work.

11/30/2005 12:29:26 AM

Just install Opera and all will be well.

11/30/2005 12:58:23 AM

had to uninstall firefox 1.0.7 and delete the app data mozilla folder and it works.

meh on opera.

11/30/2005 1:42:16 AM

Quote :

"Too bad Opera is better. Wasn't the 8.5 release of Opera just released?"

The other day I had both browsers (Opera 8.5 and Mozilla 1.5rc3) open and was looking at the memory. Opera did have the slightly smaller initial footprint but when I opened 8 different sites in tabs in both browsers opera had used up FAR more memory and it also wasn't dumping it all when closing tabs.

11/30/2005 2:35:12 AM

If I'm a user, I know nothing about web browsers, and I see:
-An e with a ring around it
-An o with a shadow behind it
-A fox that looks like its tail is on fire

I'm clicking the damn fox. Right, and mozilla.org/firefox is now updated with 1.5

11/30/2005 5:41:27 AM

lol you noob

11/30/2005 8:54:14 AM

I used to use Opera, but there was so much shit it couldn't do and so many websites that I couldn't access because of it (like NCSU registration, etc.), so I changed over to firefox.

11/30/2005 9:09:15 AM

since opera 8, the support has been much better

11/30/2005 9:16:09 AM

Quote :

"its newer than rc3"

yeah, i thought you got the answer, but RC stands for release candidate - meaning, almost there, but not quite. this is the final release codenamed deer park.

Quote :

"since opera 8, the support has been much better"

it's free too - can't hurt to have both. i still don't like any browser's handling of memory leaks after a few hours (even if left idle overnight) as compared to IE. like for example, i left FF open all night - started off using around 45-50 MB of RAM and right now it's using 114 MB. even if i used maxthon as an add-on for IE with most of the plugins and stuff that firefox has, the memory problem doesn't exist.

11/30/2005 9:30:39 AM

Does 1.5 fix the problem where it sucks?

11/30/2005 1:55:29 PM

nah not so much

11/30/2005 2:18:50 PM

That's weird, I'm using firefox, it's been open all night with adobe running within one of the windows, and it's only using 18 mb... Is that problem only with newer versions?

11/30/2005 2:19:22 PM

the memory leak issue is typically caused by the flash plugin, and there's an easy fix that seems to have worked for me. it's not the browser that's causing the problem, it's flash

http://fusion94.org/archives/2005/07/firefox_memory.html

also, if your extensions won't work yet

http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2005/09/make-old-extensions-work-in-firefox-15/

[Edited on November 30, 2005 at 3:24 PM. Reason : .]

11/30/2005 3:22:42 PM

i tried that memory thing and now it's the same shitty browser as every other one out there - freezing up when loading certain websites, etc.

[Edited on November 30, 2005 at 3:47 PM. Reason : thanks tho]

11/30/2005 3:47:30 PM

I'm booted into Ubuntu Linux and it's even faster than it was in Windows (Opera that is, not Sucksfox).

11/30/2005 7:04:22 PM

goddamn, i tried it on my windows machine at work today and was superbly impressed at the render-speed of pages.

11/30/2005 7:12:16 PM

^firefox or opera?
I have over 45 tabs open in opera and I'm only using 125mb of ram, no slowdown seen in rendering speed

11/30/2005 7:22:45 PM

Umm...at least 10 of my plugins don't work with the new version. If greasemonkey doesn't work on this I'm switching back.

12/1/2005 2:33:52 AM

if your extensions don't work, get this Nightly Tester Tools extension -
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/buildid/nightly.html

It more or less allows you to install outdated or incompatible extensions on any firefox version.

[Edited on December 1, 2005 at 3:49 AM. Reason : /]

12/1/2005 3:49:04 AM

so does this http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2005/09/make-old-extensions-work-in-firefox-15/

12/1/2005 8:27:53 AM