Firefox 1.5 beta 1 released
 

After a few months of the "Deer Park" alpha, Firefox 1.5 has finally made Beta 1:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

nice, I'll check it out. release notes say there's "Improvements to popup blocking" - I welcome that!

It also says

:eek:

yep, it's only a beta, so keep that in mind when deciding on whether to install. in my experiences, FF betas are quite stable, but no guarantees

Shame, virtually none of the extensions work on 1.5 :(

Back to 1.0.6 it is...

We need pop-under blocking now. Is that in there?

-David

If that's the case and until it's somehow addressed, I won't be upgrading either. :(

I'm still using the Mozilla (original) suite. I wonder how long they'll continue supporting it.

I need to try this out even. Thanks for the info

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 has landed

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11...refox_upgrade/

Thanks for the update! I'm upgrading as we speak. :)

There has been some discussion in assorted geeky places about browser developers adding things to combat phishing scams. (That's where you get an e-mail that pretends to be from someone like PayPal or your bank and asks you to click on a link to verify your personal info. You click and get a page that looks like it's from whoever but really isn't.) One of the methods is to always display the location of a page, even if it's a popup with "location='no' " in the command that opened it. That way, someone who thinks s/he's going to paypal.com and ends up somewhere else can at least tell what happened.

Does anyone know if FireFox 1.5 does this?

Cool. getting it now. Hope it keeps all my passwords and cookies from 1.0

It does. :)

Currently, I am using both Opera and Firefox. I like the Opera browser better, but Firefox has more extensions and is compatible with more software. Hopefully this new version will finally make it as good as Opera.