Posted on Wednesday, November 30 2005 @ 2:47 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Mozilla team has unleashed Firefox 1.5. Here's a look at what's new in this version:
- 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 including support for DHTML
accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes
5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud
all available information in applications and documents or show the
information on a Braille
display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent
software functionality as their sighted peers.
- 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.
You can download it over
here.
