Posted on Friday, September 09 2005 @ 15:23 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Mozilla team has released the first beta version of Firefox 1.5. Here's a quick look at what's new:
- 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.
- Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
- Improvements to product usability including descriptive
error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe
Mode" experience.
- Better accessibility support including DHTML
accessibility.
- Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that
are not working in Firefox.
- Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including
profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
- New support
for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
- Many security enhancements.
- List of notable
bug fixes since Deer Park Alpha 2
You can download Firefox 1.5 beta 1 over
here.
