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Jasen Lawrence
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Jasen
Lawrence joined
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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Released
December 13th, 2005, 12:56pm CST
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The newest version of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox web browser is out. One of the best features is the new auto-updating support. This allows even the most forgetful internet user constant protection. On top of that it is also the first browser to meet US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.
The new version even seems faster than the old, despite all the great new features. Better RSS support and a redesigned, easier to navigate, settings system. All-in-all the best browser on the internet is now even better. Some of the other features new to version 1.5 include:
- Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
- Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
- Improvements to popup blocking.
- Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
- Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
- Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.
- Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
- Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
- Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
- New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
- Many security enhancements.
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Related Links:
• http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
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