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Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 released!

Posted by Jonathan at 03:18:35 UTC on the 2nd of February, 2006

Firefox 1.5.0.1 is out! Existing Fx 1.5 users should have already got this via the automagic update, though according to my site logs, there are a number of Fx 1.0.7 (and earlier!) stuckists whom should upgrade too due to the security fixes and usability enhancements in the latest version. No lag this time round for a proper English release (that’s en-GB for you Americans, though why can’t Mozilla Corp. switch the default to International English?) and IDN support for the .is ccTLD so all those Icelandic domains names with á, ð, é, í, ó, ú, ý, þ, æ & ö characters will work as desired! Lastly, the full release notes for Firefox 1.5.0.1 for those wanting something to read…

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5 Comments »

  1. *sigh* I wish I COULD update, I really want to!! I still run antique and buggy Mozilla 1.2.1 on my ancient MacOS 9.5….feels like way back in 1996.

    Comment by SuSu — 08:50:20 UTC on the 2nd of February, 2006

  2. What I actually wonder is which of the fixes belong to Gecko and which of the fixes belong to Firefox itself. Since I use various Gecko-based browsers depending on the machine I’m working on ;) . Such as K-Meleon on my brother’s pc so that I can wipe all my traces without anything happening to his Firefox cookies…

    I’m wondering which other browser support these TLDs by the way… when I surf to münchen.de in K-Meleon/Firefox I’m being redirected while IE tells me the host does not exist. Strangely enough, when I try to ping münchen.de from the Windows command shell, it tells me the host could not be resolved. …now I’m really curious what magical trick Gecko does to make things work…

    (I know that .de is not icelandic, but methinks that the non-ascii TLD idea is the same nevertheless ;) .)

    Comment by Tjaard — 11:32:59 UTC on the 2nd of February, 2006

  3. Susi: Poor bébé… MacOS 9 is so old it doesn’t even have Firefox! :( With luck you’ll get your new (Intel?) Mac soon and you can install to your hearts desire shiny new browsers! ;)

    Tjaard: According to the K-Melon website, their curent releases are based on the Gecko 1.7.x branch. Firefox, if memory serves, has always been from the Gecko 1.8.x branch… Firebird would have been the last releases based on the Gecko 1.7.x branch. As for münchen.de, it works fine for me here in Firefox 1.5+ and IE7B2PR… standard Windows network tools won’t work they don’t do the punycode conversion internally yet.

    Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 12:19:35 UTC on the 2nd of February, 2006

  4. Whoops… factual correction. Firefox 1.0.x does indeed use Gecko 1.7.x and only switched to Gecko 1.8.x during the Firefox 1.0+ time, which actually got released as Firefox 1.5.x as opposed to 1.1.x in the old roadmap. Firefox 2.0.x (the “old” 1.5.x) will also be Gecko 1.8.x based, though Firefox 3.0.x (the “old” 2.0.x) will be based on Gecko 1.9.x and will have the new Cairo rendering engine enabled allowing really cool things with SVG, Canvas, opacity and the like. :D

    Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 19:44:12 UTC on the 2nd of February, 2006

  5. Thanks for the information, it was very helpful.

    Comment by Ping — 01:45:03 UTC on the 17th of April, 2006

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