Firefox 1.5 Released!

November 30th, 2005

What a nice surprise on a cold and frosty morning to see that the latest stable version of everyone’s favourite web browser Mozilla Firefox has been released. Read about what’s new at MozillaZine.

Particularly interested in the native SVG support. Download and install this latest release to have a look at the samples of what you can do. There’s even SVG Tetris! You know you want it…

9 Responses to “Firefox 1.5 Released!”

  1. Pascal Klein Says:
    November 30th, 2005 at 12:46 pm

    So 2 open sourced goodies are updated, eh? :) Yep, KDE 3.5 was released today too. This means a Konqueror update. Have a look at it’s new features.

    I think I’ll keep Konqueror as my prominent browser. So much functionality. ;-)

    Cheers,
    Pascal Klein

  2. Pascal Klein Says:
    November 30th, 2005 at 12:47 pm

    That’s weird. Half my post disappeared… =\

  3. Alex Says:
    November 30th, 2005 at 8:47 pm

    Hmm… weird indeed, if it happens again I’ll have to investigate.

    I’ve been working on a nice Intel Pro Wireless tutorial, so that’s why I’ve been away.

    Cool @ KDE :D

  4. Aranil Says:
    November 30th, 2005 at 10:24 pm

    Why (specificly) is firefox so much better than explorer? My cousins are trying to get me to switch, however I’m stubborn and like to stay in the same field. Is it really such a good switch or it is just a “fad” that’s going around?

  5. Alex Says:
    December 1st, 2005 at 1:19 pm

    Tabbed browsing. Instead of having multiple instances of an application running (waste of memory) you can instead use “tabs” to keep everything in-house as it were.

    Better support for standards that help people with disabilities to browse the internet.

    Less of a security risk.

    I haven’t used Explorer for years now…

  6. Aranil Says:
    December 1st, 2005 at 10:18 pm

    Okie… very interesting. I’ll have to consider one fo these days. Thanks amigo!

  7. Pascal Klein Says:
    December 2nd, 2005 at 7:40 am

    Aranil: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-22.html

  8. Aranil Says:
    December 2nd, 2005 at 11:06 pm

    That’s honestly quite interesting… though I usually don’t find this stuff interesting often (usually I have a hard time figuring out all those terms and codes), but yha… thanks!! :-)

  9. Pascal Klein Says:
    December 3rd, 2005 at 12:06 am

    Just install Firefox and use it for a while. Given a week of usage, you’ll change permanently.