Topic awaiting preservation: Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (Page 1 of 1)

Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is available.
Check the release notes.

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Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.

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New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6

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Wooohoooo!

CSS3? 3?! 3???!!!

*drool*


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Yeah yeah, don't get carried away, the support for CSS 3 seems only to be for CSS Columns, it'll be a long time before they'll have much more implemented I'm sure, let alone the fact that no other browsers will support CSS 3 for a long time, IE 7 for example so far hasn't any plans to implement it.

Tab re-ordering is cool though!

Cheers,

I've downloaded it, but not installed it yet. Friday is not the most peaceful day at work
By CSS3 I think they mean at least the Selectors module and eventually the Colors and Backgrounds & Borders modules. Will try it tonight.

It's just adding a little more support - it already supported a fair amount of CSS2, SVG and CSS3.

But ya, wewt when it's stable.

inline svg makes it worth it's weight in gold

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as with all there are some bugs

just make sure that some of those groovy extensions and stuff work with 1.5

Later,

C:\

I just installed FF1.5 and they redid the 'Options' menu. I like the tab ordering drag-and-drop functionality they added. Sadly, my current theme was no compatable. It was a really nice theme. One complaint is that it doesn't support the scroll bar .css!

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Black Hat said:

One complaint is that it doesn't support the scroll bar .css!

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That's something to complain to W3C about, not Mozilla (though they apparently have no problem implementing their own madeup features like '<canvas>' lately).

Too bad about the incompatibility with some of my themes and extensions - but I'm loving this new beta.

@ WebShaman,

I figured when I installed the software, some of my extensions and themes wouldn't work. I was however unprepared for my web-developer extensions to crap out. Oh well, I'll live on.

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Oh yeah, and so everyone knows... I have a fix for you that will make old extensions for 1.0 WORK in 1.5B and higher. Here you go.

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Open about:config in Firefox, right click on the listing area, select New > String and then type in app.extensions.version as the preference name and 1.0 as the value. That it, you?re extensions should now work as expected!

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Great tip! Works like a charm!

Now we just need one to get Themes to work, and I'll be happy as a pig in s**t!

Glad you found it useful Shaman.

Thanks for the tip.

No problem Poi.

In his Firefox 1.5 developer highlights post, Simon Willison gives some insights I hadn't realized about what's underhood in FF1.5.

Damn, they want to kill me with the CANVAS tag and E4X !!!