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Firefox 1.5 coming today
by Marc Perton Nov 29th 2005 at 9:31AM
Rev up that auto-update. After three release candidates, Firefox 1.5 is scheduled to be released this afternoon, according to the Mozilla group. The long-awaited official release will feature a number of enhancements, including more responsive back and forward buttons, better support for web standards, and a redesigned preferences window. Many of these features have been avaialable for sometime in the release candidates, but if you've been holding out for the official launch, now's your chance to go for it. And if you're determined to live at the cutting edge, you can always download Firefox 1.6, now in alpha.
Update: It's here. Mozilla.org site isn't updated yet, but if you want to download it right now, go to the Moz FTP server and grab it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Derek Gates said 12:31PM on 11-29-2005
I am suspecting the auto update won't work, as there is a bug with the auto update portion of 1.5. Today's release fixes the bug "Stage should not be a major point of failure for AUS [All] (no incremental update)".
Here's hoping everything goes well. =)
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jack said 1:01PM on 11-29-2005
I got mine already. Auto update popup told me that theres a newer ver available. It updated to 1.5 @ aroun d 11.30AM, CST.
Heres the image: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6646/ff154bo.png
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Joid said 4:06PM on 11-29-2005
Have fun with FF 1.5! http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/win32/
1.5 was yesterday already available!
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Joid said 5:55AM on 11-30-2005
No thnx...
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