Firefox Update/Additions (OT)
 

Firefox 1.5 is in it's testing stages, but they have released this version to us Here

A firefox addition to speed it up can be found Here

disclaimer: install at your own discretion

Re: Firefox Update/Additions (OT)
 

I think I will wait to install it till after a few beta trials. How much faster does the new version make the browser? Firefox is great, but could be easily be improved.

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Mine says 1.5.
A techie built me a new computer a couple weeks ago and installed it. I don't know much about what the differences are.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I haven't really checked out any new features (if there is any) but I found something I don't like. When you try to clear the history & cache and all that stuff, that CLEAR ALL button no longer exsists. You have to go under each of the 6 tabs and clear them individually. Unless I'm missing something, this seams like a step backwards in the user friendly department.

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no doubt. looks good. firefox rules.

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Actually, v 1.5 is released, not beta, not rc, but really released. ARS has an article and you can get it here for Windows.

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you did overlook something. They added a new "Clear Private Data" option right in the Tools menu, and through there you can clear all of them at once

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Actually, v 1.5 is released, not beta, not rc, but really released.

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The page says [ QUOTE ]
it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support.

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Technically, that's not beta, but almost no one cares about the difference.
-Sam

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I downloaded 1.5 yesterday.

It's much much faster than the old version.

It also tasks less CPU usage.

Also I can finally use the Black Japan 1.0.3. theme which is by far and away the best theme ever offered for Firefox.

I'm very happy with the new release. I didn't really think it would be so improved.

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Technically, that's not beta, but almost no one cares about the difference.
-Sam

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No, he meant get the final release at www.getfirefox.com, which is not release candidate 3.

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Thank you. I hadn't noticed it.