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Well it's been a week for some of you Beta testers ... How's it going with FF 1.5?
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best browser released. Not one crash here. ~40% of my extensions have been ported, my favourite theme as well. I'm more than happy with it. Beta-bapeta. Feels damn close to an RC.

Btw.: Firefox 1.07 (some security fixes) has been released today.
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I'm loving it as well, now that most of my extensions have been ported up correctly..

I had it crash while closing last night... haven't really looked at memory usage for a while.

On a side note: SVG support is HORRIBLE at this point.... judging from our tests, the SVG they are using on the example pages are hacked... so support of that will be back-burnered for a while...... damnit.
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Post by Roja »

I'm generally happy, but with some caveats.

Its faster, smoother, and definitely uses much less memory.

However, I've run into some problems.

I can't seem to figure out how to get the SVG support working. Every time I visit the examples page, and click on an example, it prompts me to save or open the file in an external app(?!).

I have crashes when I browse for a long period of time and close my final window. Its the only time the browser crashes, and I have flash/java/quicktime/etc all disabled - so its likely a core browser issue. I've submitted the crashback information, so hopefully it will be fixed before RC. I haven't found a pattern to the behavior other than long browsing+last window closed.

Many of my extensions have been updated, but I really hate that I was unable to get PRGooglebar updated. Even manually following the process described didn't allow me to run it. I emailed the author, but no response. FF without the PRGooglebar is NOT the same. :(
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I have been having some weird issues with my firefox.. not sure if it is actually the fault of firefox itself though.

1) Bookmarks have all disapeared while browser today
2) Will not let me add new bookmarks

Guess it's time to give her a re-install, and if need be go back to old firefox

I suspect greasemonkey may be the culperate, ever since I installed the extension odd things have been happening with firefox -- and greasemonkey itself.

Some windows may/may not open when they are supposed to.. gonna have to look into it furthur
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Buddha443556 wrote:Well it's been a week for some of you Beta testers ... How's it going with FF 1.5?
Very good, it's fast and eats less memory than previous versions. I had one crash on my xp box and one freeze on win2003 server though.
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ignoring the thousands of Javascript errors I get in the console for "unknown properties" (thanks IE) I do have a few "bugs" that hopefully will sort out soon...

Code: Select all

Error: this.menuCommanders has no properties
Source File: chrome://greasemonkey/content/browser.js
Line: 217

Error: this.docShell has no properties
Source File: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml
Line: 0

Error: window._AdblockObjects has no properties
Source File: chrome://adblock/content/component.js
Line: 494
I couldn't spend the hours of time it'd take to look through the Moz Bug DB for those, but wanted to document them somewhere.. :)
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having finished installing FF 1.5 beta 1 and taken time to getting adjusted to it (since I haven't used anything except IE) I need to know the fav dev-addons you guys are using & if possible links to them so that I can directly install them (I like this feature ;) ). I had downloaded a theme to my desktop using IE and now I can't seem to find a way to install it :?
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n00b Saibot wrote:I had downloaded a theme to my desktop using IE and now I can't seem to find a way to install it :?
I believe that if you just write a little web page that has a hyperlink to the file then view it in FF you'll be offered to install it. Failing that I found a script a while back that does a similar thing.
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n00b Saibot wrote: I need to know the fav dev-addons you guys are using & if possible links to them so that I can directly install them (I like this feature ;) ).
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d11wtq wrote: I believe that if you just write a little web page that has a hyperlink to the file then view it in FF you'll be offered to install it. Failing that I found a script a while back that does a similar thing.
Doesn't dragging the theme file onto FF window work? I never used any themes, but it works this way for extensions.
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all the extensions I currently have installed I used to have ForecastFox, but got annoyed with it.. so I'm running Konfabulator in the background too..
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Post by anjanesh »

Bad Time for Mozilla ?
From SC Magazine : FF and TB for linux infected with virus.

Strange how virus for open source software is hitting the Linux versions first !
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I wonder if it's true. That's the first I've heard of it. Can it actually infect anything on my *nix given that I only ever run it at user-level and the permissions for all those files should be (are, even) root only?
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don't think so - user-level processes don't have root priviledges unless explicitely given.

The infected Mozilla binaries were the Korean version only - so unless you happen to have downloaded that, you should be fine (this time).
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