In my earlier post I said I’d say more tomorrow, but you know what it’s like when you’ve only been out of bed for 30 minutes! Also, this post is about the Windows version.
I’m now covering Firefox 1.5 Beta a little more in depth now. Firstly, like all new Firefox builds many extensions do not work; well actually nearly none. The reason? I don’t think the engine has been re-written, just many extension are for versions 0.8 to 1.0.x and Deer Park (which is very similar, but is actually version 1.1 alpha, but it was such as change it was made version 1.5, though this isn’t reflected in the extensions),
Only one of my old extensions work, Platypus, which is of no use as it relies on Greasemonkey, which just happens not to work.
I expect major extensions like Google Toolbar (official), Greasemonkey, Google Suggest, Stumbleupon and All-in-one-Gestures to be updated soon. Some official extension built-in to Firefox 1.5, like Talkback don’t even work! Some extensions which work with 1.5 are Linkification, BBCodeXtra (though the file on Mozilla’s servers seems to be down, it is mirrored elsewhere), Chatzilla and ForecastFox.
I will miss Greasemonkey, though I expect it’s developers to be working 24/7 to get it working.
The most visible changes in Firefox 1.5 are a slightly changed default skin – which I don’t really like – Answers.com added to the search engine list and the Clean Pivate Data tool (aka. Sanitize). Also the options box takes a different layout. You can also reorder tabs – and it has better SVG support.
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