[b]Latest Changes: [/b]
Automated update to streamline product upgrades
Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance
Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs
Improvements to popup blocking
Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut
Answers.com is added to the search engine list
Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience
Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows
Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox
Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer
New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6
Many security enhancements
List of notable bug fixes since Firefox 1.5 Beta 2Changes in 1.5.0.1 RC1:
Fixed: 319004 - Overlong page title causes hang on subsequent startups.
Fixed: 312415 - Selected images (from a selection of the document to print) are black.
Fixed: 319357 - Crash in browser when attempting to print a text selection
Fixed: 296907 - fill/stroke shouldn't destroy path.
Fixed: 299343 - Can't copy and paste into the beginning of a line (Midas/designMode).
Fixed: 301678 - XML object parsed from string from flash throws permission denied error when accessed.
Fixed: 309044 - Flashplayer 8 "Bad NPObject as private data!".
Fixed: 312550 - Incorrect wrapping in RTL textarea with horizontal scrollbar.
Fixed: 316821 - Crash with moz-border-radius and small font-size.
Fixed: 318489 - Unable to create new XMLHttpRequests and DOMParsers from an XPCNativeWrapped window (e.g. in a Greasemonkey script).
Fixed: 315434 - Security error with remote : can't switch tabs if chrome has focus.
Fixed: 105894 - Clicking a partially off-screen link shouldn't scroll the page.
Fixed: 314222 - If link target URL has non-ASCII char that is not encoded by UTF-8, the default file name is always escaped at "Save Link As...".
Fixed: 315509 - Crash: array_unshift doesn't handle holes properly [@ js_DeleteProperty - array_unshift].
Fixed: 306067 - Crash involving autocomplete.
Fixed: 320488 - Crash [@ nsSHistory::EvictWindowContentViewer].
Fixed: 313988 - [Mac 10.3] Positioned select drop-down doesn't work.
Fixed: 298502 - [Mac 10.2] Empty pulldown menu and Firefox hangs.
Fixed: 312154 - [Solaris] Start script does not take care of running instance.What's new in Firefox 1.5.0.1:
- Improved stability.
- Improved support for Mac OS X.
- International Domain Name support for Iceland (.is) is now enabled.
- Fixes for several memory leaks.
- Several security enhancements.
