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Firefox 1.5.0.1 released
by Jordan Running Feb 1st 2006 at 5:45PM
Ordinarily I wouldn't even mention a release with such a minor increment in version number, but many users, self
included, were somewhat unsatisfied with the performance of Firefox 1.5 and have been eagerly awaiting some fixes. Firefox 1.5.0.1, which is going out over Automatic
Update (go to Help > Check for Updates if you haven't gotten an alert), has a short set of release notes, but what I
was craving is there: stability improvements, security enhancements, and, most of all, fixed memory leaks. Also in the
new release is improved OS X support and, for our Icelandic readers, International Domain Name support for .is domains.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David said 9:28PM on 2-01-2006
Yes, but it breaks Roboform, and there's not a version of Roboform that works with it yet.
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Thomas said 9:33PM on 2-01-2006
Thanks for the 'forced update' tip. I was looking for that in the preferences.
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Jason said 11:14PM on 2-01-2006
i didn't really experience much trouble with 1.5. but now, after upgrading to 1.51 i've had firefox freeze up on me about 6 times.
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henrrrik said 11:59PM on 2-01-2006
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Check your extensions. An incompatible extension can cause lots of trouble.
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Jamie said 9:22AM on 2-02-2006
Yeah... this thing screwed me big time. Fortunately Firefox Safe Mode allowed me to run the browser again, although I have no clue which of my 30-odd extensions is causing the stupid thing not to load. Grr.
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