Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 - Deer Park
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (codenamed Deer Park) is now available for download. This is the first Beta release of the next generation Mozilla Firefox browser, to be released later this year. PC World takes A Quick Look at the features of Firefox 1.5 Beta, and says there are a few worthy tweaks. Such as...
Drag-and-drop browser tabs. If you've got multiple tabbed windows open, you can reshuffle them at will.
Faster back-and-forward page navigation. Mozilla says that if you bop forward and backward between pages, the pages will load more quickly...and while I haven't done any comparisons here with version 1.0, navigation does seem darn speedy.
Streamlined configuration. What was once the Preferences dialog is now the Options dialog, and it's been modestly reworked to make finding and tweaking various settings easier.
Smarter updating. When updates for Firefox 1.0 show up--and even Firefox has security fixes, such as one that was released on Friday--you need to download and install a fresh copy of the browser. 1.5 introduces an updating engine that can download patches in the background, for faster and simpler browser upgrades.
Better ad blocking. According to Mozilla, that is. For what it's worth, I haven't seen a single pop-up since I've been running 1.5.
More privacy. A new feature lets you wipe out stuff like your browsing history, cache, and passwords more easily. And the cookie manager now lets you rummage through the cookies on your system more quickly.
Various under-the-hood changes. Firefox 1.5 will use the latest version of the Gecko rendering engine, for instance, and Mozilla says it'll support various Web standards better.
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download Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (Deer Park) here
