Firefox 1.5 RC 1

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What's New in Firefox 1.5 RC 1

Firefox 1.5 RC 1 is a test preview of our award-winning Web browser. Firefox 1.5 RC 1 is available for our testing community, Web site and Web application developers, and our Extension developers.

Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5 RC 1:

* 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.
* List of notable bug fixes since Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

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Came across this on Firefox 1.5 RC1 .......

Mozilla Corp. posted Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 for downloading late Tuesday, but users quickly packed message boards with complaints about glitches in Mozilla's update mechanism, one of the most touted features of the new browser.
The release candidate -- one step closer toward the final 1.5, which is expected before the end of the year -- can be downloaded in versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux from Mozilla's Web site or its FTP servers. Users of Beta 1 or Beta 2, however, can simply wait for the automatic update to kick in; the update to RC1 runs about 690K, compared to the full Windows download of 5MB.

Many Windows users, however, experienced problems with the update service, and voiced concerns in messages posted to the MozillaZine site as well to Asa Dotzler's blog about the availability of RC1. Dotzler heads Mozilla's quality control.

"When I do software update in firefox, it downloads sometimes 686KB, sometimes [sic] 6.0MB then says 'Firefox is installing...' after some 20 seconds Firefox comes up again still saying it's Firefox Beta 2 in the titlebar. Same for the 'About Firefox' dialog. I can do that as often as I want to it still remains on beta 2," wrote a user identified as "gvd" to MozillaZine.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173402278