Firefox 1.5 released

aidan_walsh

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/

The homepage hasn't been changed to reflect this yet, so consider yourselves privilaged

Just downloaded and installed now myself, and aside from some cosmetic changes, and incompatible extensions being disabled I don't see a whole lot different on the off. That said, I haven't gone to tinker under the hood yet. The memory footprint certainly hasn't gotten any smaller though, its currently clocking up 57MB(!) according to my task manager.

But anyway, here you go.

Zombrex

aidan_walsh wrote:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/

The homepage hasn't been changed to reflect this yet, so consider yourselves privilaged

Just downloaded and installed now myself, and aside from some cosmetic changes, and incompatible extensions being disabled I don't see a whole lot different on the off. That said, I haven't gone to tinker under the hood yet. The memory footprint certainly hasn't gotten any smaller though, its currently clocking up 57MB(!) according to my task manager.

But anyway, here you go.

Can't find a mention of this on MozillaZine .. you sure this isn't just Release Candidate 3?

aidan_walsh

Nope, About is clearly stating FF1.5.

ro2

It's probably the official version:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2146864/firefox-tonight

roamer

aidan_walsh wrote:

Nope, About is clearly stating FF1.5.

Ive been using RC3 now for a few days and its says that its version 1.5 in the about box anyway...
I mentioned on another thread posted here today that theres speculation RC3 might be 1.5.

Still though, this still looks like the official version.

Duffman

Either it's the exact same as 1.5 RC3 or this isn't the official release.

The md5 sums are identical, look:

d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c ./win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 1.5.exe (1.5)
d0cbbd5d8c47fe36ee8f26fb1255838c ./win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 1.5.exe (1.5RC3)

Cabaal

Looks like official release so I'm going with it
nope appears to be RC3 same build number, that and the build number is still shopwing in the title bar...hardly final release quality

aidan_walsh

Told ya so...

Cabaal

aidan_walsh wrote:

Told ya so...

build number still in the titlebar, very poor work tbh

aidan_walsh

Not for me...

Duffman

My point was that it may well be the official release but it's possible that they haven't changed *anything*

qBot

Well, either way. The official 1.5 is available from the official site now. British version ain't out yet though

roamer

The RC3 version available is the exact same as 1.5.
I would imagine they waited until all the mirrors updated before actual *official* release.

mozilla.com also has a new look!

radiospan

Cabaal wrote:

build number still in the titlebar, very poor work tbh

Are you sure that's not just cos you're using Nightly Tester Tools?

Cabaal

plazzTT wrote:

Are you sure that's not just cos you're using Nightly Tester Tools?

fixed it
uninstalled (which I was doing anyway) delete the mozilla installation folder and reinstalled
build number gone now

irlrobins

hey all,

Downloaded and installed FF 1.5 for the first time today. I have a gmail account and use the (official) gmail notifier to alert me when new mail comes in. With IE I could double click the notifier icon and it would log me and take me straight to the inbox.

With FF set as default browser when i click the notifier it takes me to the login screen of gmail and i have ot login manually.

Is this just a 1.5 prob or did it always work with FF like this?

And I know there is a gmail notifier extension but I want to use the gmail official one so i can know if mail arrives when i don't have a browser open.

cheers

CyberGhost

I both like and dislike migrating to new versions of FX, on one side it's good cause it's something new to play with but on the other hand, now I have to track down all 50 extensions I use and update them, and of course not all of them will work with 1.5 yet(if ever), so I lose some functionality for some time

Dempsey

Using it now, no problems.

irlrobins, look in gmail notifier preferences for "Automatically Log in".

Stephen

Most of my extensions worked on 1.5 without any intervention from me

irlrobins

Dempsey wrote:

Using it now, no problems.

irlrobins, look in gmail notifier preferences for "Automatically Log in".

I don't have that option

Matthewthebig

Anyone else not have Flash working for them?

irlrobins

flash working ok for me

Matthewthebig

It's very weird it woeked perfectly on 1.0 etc. Then it got to the 1.5 betas and Rcs and it borked. Does anyone no what the reason may be?

roamer

Matthewthebig wrote:

It's very weird it woeked perfectly on 1.0 etc. Then it got to the 1.5 betas and Rcs and it borked. Does anyone no what the reason may be?

Is there some sort of an error or does it just not display it. Have you tried re-installing it?

Dempsey

irlrobins wrote:

I don't have that option

Which option?

irlrobins

Dempsey wrote:

Which option?

to auto login. I only have the options to use gmail for mailto links and to select which browser opens on clicking the notifier.

Matthewthebig

I does not display it. I have it intalled just redid it there. Mind you i also checked opera and IE and Ie is the only it seems to work in

jonnybadd

Flash player recently updated to version 8 did it not? Coud this be a problem?

Matthewthebig

its updated and nothing

Stephen

Flash player 8 breaks the flash overlay in the adblock extension, but otherwise it should be fine. I think Adblock was updated to work around this too.

Matthewthebig

I have that updated as well and still nothing

CrowdedHouse

Mine keeps asking me what to do with WMV files despite ticking the 'always do this etc...' box.

Support page is borked too

PhoenixRising

Matthewthebig wrote:

I have that updated as well and still nothing

You need to uncheck Obj Tabs in Adblock preferences. It's a known problem with Adblock and the latest version of flash.

Matthewthebig

it isn't ticked

still nada

Maskhadov

Ive FIREFOX version 1.0.4. Is there much of a difference with 1.5 ? I perfer firefox than IE but there are shortcommings with each of the browsers

commited

I've found a few little problems with 1.5 but nothing major

Vikings

Matthewthebig wrote:

it isn't ticked

still nada

You have to uninstall adblock and then reinstall it, same happened to me not long ago.

edit: just installed 1.5 - whats with the gigantic status bar like blob at the bottom?

http://homepage.eircom.net/~dslannb/Untitled-1.jpg

Vikings

Uninstalled/reinstalled 1.5 and the bar is still there, tried to reinstall 1.0.7 it installed fine but plain wont work, did a system restore to yesterday and firefox wont work with that either. There doesn't seem to be any use for this bar or any options to get rid of it, tis very odd.

Anyone else have same problem?

aidan_walsh

Yep, had that happen when an incompatible extension decided to die and take the browser with it. If you are uninstalling, try deleting your profile\extensions folder in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profilename\Extensions

Vikings

Beautiful, thanks.

Skud

same thing is happening with me and windows media player... playing sound but no vid. only since 1.5 too any ideas?

watty

Recently swapped my home LAN users from IE to Firefox.

On 933MHz PC XP Pro, 333MHz XP home and 1.8GHz XP pro laptop it is perfect.

On An XP Pro 1GHz, 450MHz Win2000 laptop , 450MHz Win98 and a 400MHz Win2K PC it is BRAIN DEAD. Takes about 10 times longer than IE to load pages.

Using a Wingate proxy on Broadband

pwwillia

Skud wrote:

same thing is happening with me and windows media player... playing sound but no vid. only since 1.5 too any ideas?

hey having the sam e problem, any ideas?