On November 9th 2004, Neowin was one of the first to announce the official release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. We get word from resident Firefox aficionado supernova_00, that Firefox 1.5 is slated to be released sometime today.
Firefox 1.5 is a major milestone release by the Mozilla Foundation. It represents not only a viable alternative to the way we surf the web, but the continued growth and success of the open-source software community. Itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s estimated that 10% of the world's internet-enabled computers run Firefox, with some countries in Europe (Germany, Slovenia and Finland) claiming numbers three times that amount. Love it or hate it, Firefox has truly sparked an internet revolution with its foundations rooted in the spirit of community.
Here's just a few of many things you can expect to see in Firefox 1.5:
* Support for SVG, Canvas, CSS3 Columns, Javascript 1.6
* Revised options window including a new "Clear Private Data" option
* Binary patching with an enhanced automatic update system, eliminating the need to reinstall Firefox for an update or subsequent release
* Significant decrease in page rendering time
* Instant "Back/Foward" browser cache along with tab "Drag and Drop" functionality
* Hundreds of program/stability related bugfixes
We expect the final release to be posted inside
here once these server-side bugs have been resolved.
Update: The nightly builds located in
here will be copied to the 1.5 release folder later today. Firefox 1.5 has NOT been officially released but technically you can just grab your OS installer from there and be confident that you are runing Fx 1.5. Expect the release notes and assorted announcement pages to be up later today.