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fordp
November 29th, 2005, 12:27 PM
I would like to be the first to Request Fire Ferret 1.5.

It is being released as we speak.

I know we will have to wait for it to get into testing first.

Cheers.
atoponce
November 29th, 2005, 12:33 PM
I would like to be the first to Request Fire Ferret 1.5.

It is being released as we speak.

I know we will have to wait for it to get into testing first.

Cheers.

Fire Ferret 1.5? What's that? Do you mean to say Firefox 1.5 final will be released today? I am running 1.5 RC3, and I have not yet been notified that there are any updates. What are you talking about?
jrib
November 29th, 2005, 12:37 PM
read the sticky http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=96595 ;o
fordp
November 29th, 2005, 12:40 PM
Fire Feret is its Nick Name at :-

http://www.theinquirer.net/

Yes I read the post in requests.

Shame. I will have it on my work Windoze machine today !
veloct
November 29th, 2005, 01:14 PM
Fire Feret is its Nick Name at :-

http://www.theinquirer.net/

Yes I read the post in requests.

Shame. I will have it on my work Windoze machine today !

And? You can have it today for linux too. Just install it :)
ad noiseam
November 29th, 2005, 01:19 PM
Fire Ferret 1.5.

Damn, is Mozilla snatching Ubuntu coding procedure? What's next? The Thunder Turtle?
atoponce
November 29th, 2005, 02:42 PM
Damn, is Mozilla snatching Ubuntu coding procedure? What's next? The Thunder Turtle?

Thunder Turtle! I like it! Bwa ha ha ha!! (Laughing so hard, I'm almost crying!):D
vik4
November 30th, 2005, 12:12 AM
Fire Ferret 1.5? What's that? Do you mean to say Firefox 1.5 final will be released today? I am running 1.5 RC3, and I have not yet been notified that there are any updates. What are you talking about?

1.5RC3 is the same as 1.5Final. The release candidate was released.
atoponce
November 30th, 2005, 01:25 AM
1.5RC3 is the same as 1.5Final. The release candidate was released.

Firefox 1.5 RC3 is not the same as 1.5 Final. RC3 is called "Release Candidate 3", which means it is close to final, but not final. Release candidates are extensions of beta testing.
Chippendale
November 30th, 2005, 01:31 AM
^^ yup, that's true...what he said! ;)
23meg
November 30th, 2005, 01:35 AM
Firefox 1.5 RC3 is not the same as 1.5 Final. RC3 is called "Release Candidate 3", which means it is close to final, but not final. Release candidates are extensions of beta testing.But in the case of Firefox, the final has been identical to the latest RC.
makhand
November 30th, 2005, 12:26 PM
And? You can have it today for linux too. Just install it :)

I did that, and like it. except java wont work
jdong
November 30th, 2005, 01:22 PM
Firefox 1.5 RC3 is not the same as 1.5 Final. RC3 is called "Release Candidate 3", which means it is close to final, but not final. Release candidates are extensions of beta testing.
1.5 RC3 is indeed identical to 1.5 final, as md5sum, diff -Naur both reveal.

Release Candidates are exactly what they sound like. Release Candidates. That is, a package designated as THE final version, if nothing bad gets discovered. For example, when RC1 was released, if there were no major bugs reported, that would've been rebranded as final.


Remember that under Ubuntu, Firefox is not just a browser. It's a system library (Gecko) that provides HTML rendering capabilities for many many other programs. Run apt-cache rdepends firefox && apt-cache rdepends mozilla-firefox to get an idea of how many packages rest on Firefox's rendering abilities. Changing firefox versions is a major operation.
fordp
November 30th, 2005, 03:30 PM
I think 23meg was saying that the software was the same and only the number changed.

When you change the version number it will change the md5sum but not the software!

I should know I am a software engineer ;)
The Belgain
November 30th, 2005, 08:25 PM
I think 23meg was saying that the software was the same and only the number changed.

When you change the version number it will change the md5sum but not the software!

I should know I am a software engineer ;)

Yeah I'd have thought so too, but apparently the version number has always been "1.5" even in the RCs, and so there was no version number to change (hence the identical MD5 hash) when releasing the final.
ossi
December 1st, 2005, 08:28 AM
Does anybody here know how to get the video-plugin work for Firefox 1.5??
pertti
December 1st, 2005, 08:57 AM
Read this howto: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion. It worked for me :D.
dizzy1234
December 1st, 2005, 10:01 AM
There's a ferret plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Humor&numpg=10&id=31) that randomises your browsers name to things like firepanda, just to enliven your browsing experience. Not sure if it works with 1.5 though.
haocheng
December 2nd, 2005, 05:56 AM
Remember that under Ubuntu, Firefox is not just a browser. It's a system library (Gecko) that provides HTML rendering capabilities for many many other programs.

Is this the reason why Firefox is so slow on Ubuntu???
Every time when I try to load a page in Firefox,
I found that the cpu loading will increase up to 90-100% for a second...

Hope Firefox 1.5 can solve this issue. :???:
jdong
December 2nd, 2005, 07:07 AM
FF 1.0.7, for whatever reason, is heavily patched in Ubuntu. This has been resolved in 1.5.
haocheng
December 2nd, 2005, 11:10 AM
FF 1.0.7, for whatever reason, is heavily patched in Ubuntu. This has been resolved in 1.5.

I'm really happy to hear that.
I started using Ubuntu since 4.10,
and Firefox was not that slow before.

Hope FF 1.5 can enter backports soon ;)
magomago
December 3rd, 2005, 03:34 PM
here here! I hope so as well. I normally would just install it via the tar, but I updating all my programs via apt-get and if i can avoid it, i would prefer not to fragment that task

hope it gets done soon!