Firefox 1.5.0.2 fixes bugs, adds native Intel support for Macs

by Bob Crabtree on 18 April 2006, 15:04

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Firefox 1.5.0.2, the latest version of the Mozilla Foundation's free web browser, is now available for download in versions for Windows (4.9MB), Linux (8.1MB) and Apple Mac OS X. Apple users can download two OS X versions - one 'universal' (16MB) that works natively on Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs, the other only for PowerPC Macs (9.5MB).

Version 1.5.0.2 is said to offer improved stability, a number of security fixes and a bunch of bug fixes. More details of those over at Burning Edge. If you're not using Firefox, we at HEXUS would urge you to try it out - it's generally regarded as much more secure than Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. As is, the program offers a number of features not yet available in IE - notably tabs for tidier browsing of multiple sites - with a huge number of additional features being available by installing free third-party extensions.

Are you a Firefox lover? Let us know over in the HEXUS.community about your browser of choice.



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Posted by Steve - Tue 18 Apr 2006 15:58
Running Bon Echo here (version 2.0a1). So if you're feeling more adventurous than a stable release, try it out… and you can hack the extension files to force them to install on a version higher then they're intended for… just as long as you know how to fix it when it breaks :)
Posted by mike_w - Tue 18 Apr 2006 16:08
Seamonkey 1.0.1 has appeared as well, with the same updated Gecko.
Posted by Stoo - Tue 18 Apr 2006 16:39
Steve
Running Bon Echo here (version 2.0a1).

Any good?
Posted by Steve - Tue 18 Apr 2006 19:28
Stoo
Any good?
I've not noticed any changes to page rendering so Gecko changes must be pretty subtle (as they should be.)

They have implemented miniSQL storage for history and bookmarks, which makes them much more flexible than we're used to, although playing with them has caused a crash for me.

All in all it's pretty good, although on my main rig I'll adopt 1.5.0.2 as I'm not over-keen on running beta software on it.
Posted by DeathByDuke - Tue 18 Apr 2006 22:52
hmm, im sure i downloaded 1.5.0.2 last week o_O

took them time to announce it lol

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