Mozilla releases Firefox 1.5

Firefox 1.5 has been released from beta. Mozilla has given both Firefox and Thunderbird a new home. You can now download both at Mozilla.com, which is now where GetFirefox.com points to.

What’s New in Firefox 1.5

Firefox 1.5 is the next version of our award-winning Web browser.

Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.5:

  • Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
  • Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
  • Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
  • Improvements to popup blocking.
  • Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
  • Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
  • Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and “Safe Mode” experience.
  • Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
  • Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
  • Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
  • New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
  • Many security enhancements.

Read a more comprehensive list on what’s new.

1 Comment»

  1. Yelling Lizard » 2 million downloads for Firefox 1.5 said,

    December 1, 2005@ 2:18 pm

    […] There have been 2 million downloads of the new Firefox 1.5 since it was released late Tuesday. Mozilla’s servers weathered the release of Firefox 1.5 much better than last year’s roll-out of 1.0, a Web performance company said Thursday, with the systems showing no evidence of downtime. […]

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