FireFox 1.5 review - day 2
Uninstalling IE 7 Beta was a wise decision after all. I’m not getting more errors and freeze-ups anymore. Anyway, I’ve been using FireFox for 2 days by now. The interface is identical to its previous version 1.0, but a few graphics for popup messages have been revamped with a slick look. I found something strange the other day. When I download multiple files, the download popup and FireFox hard-closes the application. I think it’s a bug.
According to FireFox developers the following features are added to 1.5 Beta:
Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.5 Beta 1:
- 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.
- List of notable bug fixes since Deer Park Alpha 2
Honestly, I can’t feel any difference yet, but I will give you an update very soon.
