Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is out

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

win! my planet once again has a fox humping it. I've been using Deer Park for so long that it's actually throwing me off a bit.
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5a1.html -- what was new in Alpha 1
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5a2.html -- what was new in Alpha 2
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5b1.html -- what's new in Beta 1

of note: a few large memory leaks plugged, popup blocker improved slightly, more forays into CSS3, tabs are now rearrangeable by drag-drop, back/forwards have been made incredibly fast, error pages instead of dialogs (for server-not-found etc), reorganized Options dialog, feature to report a 'broken' website on the Help menu, autoupdating, basic support for for a vector image language called SVG, better array support in Javascript, more intelligent FTP, image thumbnails as tab icons, a menu option to delete private data, the ability to use userContent.css to apply CSS to only certain sites, lots of little bugfixes.

this IS of course a beta, but I've been using nightly builds for the past week or so and they've been quite stable. also, extensions will NOT work until their version numbers are bumped; in my experience this tends to happen fairly quickly, but I cannot guarantee it will happen at all for many extensions.

Beta 2 is due in early October, and the release candidates are due in early November. from the look of the bug list, there's not really a lot left to do.

crossposting everywhere
 
i like the new beta, but i miss my extensions.
 
I'll wait to update until my extentions have... just because I really enjoy what they add. :p

Though the new beta looks good.
 
I MISS MY EXTENSIONS TOO OH GOD WHY HAVE THEY NOT BEEN BUMPED YET.

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oh btw: there's a buffer overrun glitch with IDN in firefox, I suggest you turn off IDN like right now :| about:config, type in network.enableIDN, doubleclick the only entry that should show.

IDN sure has a lot of bugs, whoever wrote the code needs to be slapped around a bit >:| then again I guess since IDN is so not-really-used, especially with English-speakers, it's a bit hard to test very thoroughly..
 
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