RSSFirefox 1.5 Beta 1 Unleashed
By Nate Mook | Published September 9, 2005, 10:35 AM
Mozilla has released the first beta of the long-awaited Firefox 1.5, the first major milestone since Firefox 1.0 debuted last November. The new release, code-named Deer Park, brings to the table a number of performance and usability improvements, along with new Web standards support.
Enhancements in Beta 1 include a better software update system to serve browser upgrades, the ability to reorder tabs through drag and drop functionality, and improved pop-up blocking. A new feature quickly clears private data using a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
Back and Forward navigation has also been reworked to more cache pages for instant loading, rather than forcing the browser to re-render them. In addition, better support has been announced for Mac OS X. Early versions of the Firefox browser have proven to be crash-prone on Apple's operating system.
Accessibility is another area of improvement in Firefox 1.5. Support has been added for DHTML accessibility and screen readers such as Windows-Eyes. The browser also has more descriptive error messages and a broken Web site wizard for reporting sites that do not display properly in Firefox.
Beta 2 of Firefox 1.5 is expected October 5, with a release candidate slated for the end of October. A final release of Firefox 1.5 would likely launch sometime in November.
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is available for download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
Firefox 1.5 is down to 29k. Nice.
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|As much as I'd like to use FireFox (instead of Mozilla), I've become too used to the functionality of Multizilla :(
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|av got a question for any hackers reading this...wots the point? do u actually get anything out of it? a kick maybe? perhaps a turn on for sum of u sicker folk....i'd understand if u got a million quid out of it....hell i'd even learn how 2 hack myself if that was the case, but other than that u hackers r just sad
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|huh? What does that have to do with Firefox 1.5 beta being released?
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|I admit, i didn't read the article, but after reading your post, i searched this page for "hack" and it shows up only under your post, not the article or anyone elses posts...
Fill me in, please, is Fx a hack, or users of Fx are likely to be hackers?
"hackers" you must mean crackers, because anybody knowledgable in the hacking field defines hacking as:
enjoying the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm; "true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers"
Cracker: An individual who attempts to gain unauthorised access to a computer system. These individuals are often malicious and have many means at their disposal for breaking into a system. The term was coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defence against journalistic misuse of "hacker".
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|Yawn. All of this has already been released in Opera.
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|Yawn, done tried Opera before.....Didn't like it
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|But this is less bloated and free not adware (and parses xml dom properly gripe moan)
Great release!!
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|I may not be a huge Opera fan, but one thing Opera is NOT--is adware
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|Opera is adware. If you don't have a registered copy, it serves text ads from Google or generic graphical ads (you have a choice) above the tab-selection panel.
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|hey bozo...me again...Opera offered you free registration last week. You should have tried it. Its a superior product and worth paying for, but if you are an unemployed geek, I guess you cant afford it anyway.
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|maybe Opera is not the best browser, but at least superior than ffx in most areas, thatz the truth. No more bulls***s.
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|Hey thanks. I guess I sorta knew that since I got a free copy when that happened. You'll notice I said "If you don't have a registered copy;" not "For the people that missed the one day in 10 years they offered it free." It's just simpler that way.
Thanks again. I'm always happy to be informed with completely worthless well-known info.
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|I could afford it, I've tried the free version. I don't intend to pay for it though because.......well......I just don't like it.
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|Oh yeah... That would have been good -- If I hadn't been at work all day the day I found out, so when I finally got to the site there was this big message saying "Sorry, we're not giving out reg codes anymore".
Sorry, but that don't cut it.
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|You can block ads in Opera--but be that as it may: Opera without ads blocked is way faster than FF-- for now.
You don't even win extra browsing real space on FF because of no ads IF you install a lot of extra extensions-- that just creates a lot of extra toolbars.
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|You know that's not my point. That's what other people were saying. My post was only about where Firefox's new features are coming from.
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|Yea, I went back up and re-read what you wrote. I shoulda erased what i said, Sorry.
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|This is noteworthy b/c it affects 1.5 beta 1.
(source: http://security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x17-advisory.txt)
Mozilla Firefox "Host:" Buffer Overflow
Release Date:
September 8, 2005
Date Reported:
September 4, 2005
Severity:
Critical
Vendor:
Mozilla
Versions Affected:
Firefox Win32 1.0.6 and prior
Firefox Linux 1.0.6 and prior
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (Deer Park Alpha 2)
Overview:
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists within Firefox version 1.0.6 and all other prior
versions which allows for an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on a affected
host.
Technical Details:
The problem seems to be when a hostname which has all dashes causes the NormalizeIDN
call in nsStandardURL::BuildNormalizedSpec to return true, but is sets encHost to an
empty string. Meaning, Firefox appends 0 to approxLen and then appends the long
string of dashes to the buffer instead. The following HTML code below will reproduce
this issue: (you can see the rest at the url above)
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|Instant Back and Forward - Yaay!
Only Ad-Block and Yahoo! Toolbar extensions that works - Not so good.
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|FlashGot and Tabbrowser Prefs have updates now.
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|The only problem is that my favourite extensions don't work. isorely miss flashgot.also i can't figure out what exactly they have changed since deer park.my advice-stick to 1.0.6
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|All my extensions (including FlashGot) work flawlessly with this beta. Maybe you should try creating a new profile.
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|This is by design. Firefox's Extension System for 1.0x and below was broken. For example, the installation, upgrade and uninstall subsystems were not very robust at all.
When installing a new version of an extension, files from older versions would be left behind, and this could lead to incompatibilities and mysterious crashes.
The fix was to completely revamp the Extension System. Unfortunately for users who want to use the beta as their main browser today, that means they'll have to do without their favorite extensions.
Extension developers are aware of these changes, so new, 1.5-compatible extensions should be in place well before the final version of 1.5 hits the street some time in November or December. Mozilla will be releasing a list of 1.5-compatible extensions within the week
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|I've been waiting for the tab re-ordering via drag and drop for a while now. Glad to see its here! Seems stable so far, I love it.
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|Tab Mix (Plus) extension got this and much more (undo close tab, duplicate tab, many customization options). Just google for it (atm don't work with 1.5).
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|Your menus are now twice as long thanks to some "visual enhancements" that mess with the font.
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|If you don't agree with the changes to the Winstripe theme please comment in http://forums.mozillazin...sperpage=15&start=0 and sign the petition to back out the bug that brought us the excessive padding and the hideous flat look on classic systems http://www.petitiononlin.../fx303806/petition.html
BoxerBoi76
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|You could always try using this visual style. Clearlooks for Windows!
o_O
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|Already did :)
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|ok... I'm feeling really stupid right now. How the heck do you apply the .msstyle?????
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|You need to patch your uxtheme.dll and then extract the theme into the WINDIR\Resources\Themes directory. It should appear in the Display Properties > Appearance > Windows and buttons dropdown.
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|Thanks. I'm glad I wasn't missing something really simple like I thought.
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