Firefox 1.5 beta 1 is out

**Ubunted** · September 10th, 2005

This is actually not Beta 1, this is Beta 1 RC 1.

It's not a Beta
It's not an RC

It's the RC for the Beta.

Or so I have heard?

**benplaut** · September 10th, 2005

Originally Posted by krusbjorn

Drag'n'drop reordering of tabs is available through the TabMix extension for firefox 1.0.x

thanks, i was about to say that

<<edit>>

i just tried it out (it's obscenely easy to get running, for those who are afraid...), and i'm not very impressed... everything that was changed (pretty much), i had changed via extensions

page rendering is faster, though

**poofyhairguy** · September 10th, 2005

Originally Posted by benplaut

page rendering is faster, though

All I wanted.

**Game master pro** · September 10th, 2005

I installed it a couple of hours ago, but no themes or extensions are working, so i re installed 1.0.6, i'll reinstall it later maybe

**Heliode** · September 10th, 2005

I'm running it right now (on Hoary) and I have to say, it renders pages like crazy! I can clearly tell the difference in performance. Also, it is supposed to have a couple of memory leaks fixed. FF1.0.x used to eat up gigantic amounts of RAM if you left it running for a long time, so a fix for that is very welcome indeed. Adblock is already supported, which means it is useable for me!

now all I need is an update for MediaPlayerConnectivity and i'm good to go!

**SKLP** · September 10th, 2005

Originally Posted by Kyral

Is there anyway someone can slot this into the Breezy Repos

Of course you'd name it something like "firefox-beta" or "deerpark"

Don't know if it would work. Many apps depend on the "firefox" package, and they would presumably all need to be recompiled in separate packages for firefox-beta (e.g epiphany-firefoxbeta)

**equilibrium** · September 10th, 2005

I've installed it but I can't seem to get firefox working properly

the plugin is there but all I get is sound and no visual.
Seems to be ok appart from a few plugins not working.

**TravisNewman** · September 10th, 2005

haaaaa.... so. Yeah I'm loving this. Timed it at 5 seconds to totally load ubuntuforums.org on the current stable... 1.5 beta 1 loads it to functional in less than a second and completely at about 3 seconds. I'm on very high speed broadband at the moment, so keep that in mind.

**spiderbatdad** · November 27th, 2005

Can't seem to get firefox 1.5 rc3 to install in Ubuntu 5.10. Can antone tell me how to do this? I am a total newbie to Linux (former windows user who never wants to go back,) so I have very little understanding of working with the files, being "root" (is that a tea I should brew, or something I should smoke?), and have not been able to get permissions to edit the opt file. Not even sure I want to edit that file. Anyway, instructions would be greatly appreciated.