Mozilla to release Firefox 1.5 Tuesday

Macworld ^ | 11/29/2005 | Elizabeth Montalbano

[TommyDale]

I hope it works better with PDF files and Acrobat.

[Vaquero]

Never heard of Mazilla or Firefox before last month when the company installed it in all the computers here at work....

.....I miss I.E. ....but then I am no computer geek, nor do I play one on TV.

[ShadowAce]

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I just checked my Help/About Mozilla pull down menu and it states I've got version 1.5

[USS Alaska]

I'm no confuser geek, but have been using Firefox since January and one thing I like about is you can change font sizes by using the "control key" with the + or -, keys, which is very useful when jumping between online stories and replies on FR etc.

[ShadowAce]

That's the release candidate. I've got the same thing. The final is due out today. (~5 hours from now)

[markedmannerf]

If you want a simple PDF reader that doesnt take 500 years to load like Acrobat get foxit. It works great opens pdf files very fast. I have yet to find something better. Works great with firefox.

[savedbygrace]

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[Red Badger]

You poor thing! Stuck on .....uh,.....IE.............

[Red Badger]

I just checked my Help/About Mozilla pull down menu and it states I've got version 1.5

You've got a virus infected copy! Delete and re-format your hard drive immediately or we'll all be infected!!!!!!!!!!!!(just kidding)...........

[markedmannerf]

I must say your company was very wise to make this move. Considering Firefox only has 3 security holes.
http://secunia.com/advisories/15601/

And IE has 21 security holes!!
http://secunia.com/product/11/

You tell me which one is more secure!

[antiRepublicrat]

I hope it works better with PDF files and Acrobat.

You may be using Acrobat 6. That was buggy.

[markedmannerf]

you probably have the beta verison of 1.5

[4rcane]

You forget Opera 8.5. It has no security holes

[Bosco]

I got RC1 and just yesterday it automatically updated to the full release.

[TommyDale]

It's a hassle to load yet another program to read Adobe files, since I am required to actually make Adobe files with Acrobat for business purposes. Firefox should work better with the PDF downloads.

[TomGuy]

I've used Speed Up Adobe Reader for a couple of years. It really works to speed up Reader loading time, even in browser plug-ins.

http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php

First item on above web link

[TommyDale]

"You may be using Acrobat 6. That was buggy."

So am I expected to spend several hundred dollars MORE to get Adobe to work with Firefox? Why can't the bugs get fixed?

[Panerai]

It's not Firefox that's the problem, it's Adobe Acrobat that's slow.