Firefox upgraded to 1.5RC1. I had been using Firefox beta for a while, visually and user experience wise I find nothing much different from 1.0 Firefox. The emphasis here is visually. Under the hood there are major changes, at the risk of repeating Mozilla.org, here are the changes:
- Automated update to streamline product upgrades.
- Faster browser navigation.
- Drag and drop for browser tabs.
- Improvements to popup blocking.
- Clear Private Data feature.
- Answers.com added to search engine list.
- Descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, and RSS discovery.
- Better accessibility support.
- Report a broken Web site wizard.
- Better support for Mac OS X.
Today I experienced the streamline upgrade. Must say it is pretty neat. No save to disk, exit running Firefox, doubleclick to install process. Firefox 1.5 detects the upgrade, downloaded it and prompt to restart. Done.
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