Issues with Firefox 1.5?

[Trip]

I know there's an existing thread, but I wanted to draw more attention to this.

Has anyone else been having many rather serious problems with Firefox 1.5 that were not present in 1.0.x?

I'm not a Windows user, but I'm hearing that the Windows Firefox memory leak problem is worse than it was in 1.0.x, and I remember it was pretty bad back then.

Under Fedora Core 4 I've had nothing but problems with it. Installing it was a game in itself, as I first installed it by just manually overwriting the 1.0.7 files (I couldn't get it to install any other way). This caused Firefox to crash whenever Flash wanted to run for some reason. I've since replaced it with an RPM that was built for FC4.

I can't get videos to play anymore, as every time I try to go to, say, a Windows Media thing whose address starts with mms:// it asks me if I want to open it with totem (which, I might add, isn't even installed) rather than with the mplayer plugin. No choice in programs, it's either totem or cancel.

Further, I'm having a weird issue that I think is due to the tab-dragging feature, where it'll sometimes when I'm changing tabs bring up the 'dragging' cursor and then hang the whole OS for about 15 seconds. Can't change programs or use escape to fix it, and since I can't change programs, I can't use KSysGuard to see what's jamming it up.

If it can't find the Live Bookmark feed for whatever reason, instead of bringing up the thing that says "feed can't be opened" or whatever, it just flickers instead. Further, there's no quick way to add Live Bookmarks anymore, as the icon was removed from the Status Bar and is now unclickable in the addressbar, between the Favicon and the address.

Am I alone in seeing a LOT of problems with Firefox 1.5?

- Trip

 

[Argy]

I have had no noticeable problems with installation or use. I am using XP.

 

[Otter Mii-kun]

I've had trouble with inserting special characters. For example, when the NumLock key is on (which is what it should be to input special characters) when I hold down the Alt key and type any number (which is neccesary to insert the characters), browser functions are implemented instead of inserting the character I want.

 

[Archaic]

I've had no such problems. You might want to check that you're using the standard release build of Firefox 1.5, and not one of the nightly development builds, which are often filled with bugs.

 

[Otter Mii-kun]

I've had no such problems. You might want to check that you're using the standard release build of Firefox 1.5, and not one of the nightly development builds, which are often filled with bugs.

I downloaded a standard installer package right from the link at the product's homepage