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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:36 am
by Buddha443556
Well it's been a week for some of you Beta testers ... How's it going with FF 1.5?
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:39 am
by patrikG
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:45 am
by feyd
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:20 am
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.

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:03 pm
by John Cartwright
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
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:06 pm
by Weirdan
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:38 pm
by feyd
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..

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:50 am
by n00b Saibot
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

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:37 am
by Chris Corbyn
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.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:45 am
by Weirdan
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

).
WebDeveloper Toolbar by Chris Pederick
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:47 am
by Weirdan
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.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:49 am
by feyd
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..
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:01 am
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 !
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:31 am
by Chris Corbyn
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?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:38 am
by patrikG
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).