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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Firefox 1.5 is out!


Upgrade now!!! Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5:

  • 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.


Did I tell you to upgrade now!!? <grin>