Diverse blogs maakten er al eerder melding van, maar vandaag is de tweede bètarelease van Firefox 1.5 officieel verschenen. Bètaversie van deze webbrowser zijn alleen in het Engels verkrijgbaar en zoals gebruikelijk voor zowel Windows, Linux als Mac OS X. In deze release treffen we onder andere verbeteringen aan met betrekking tot het automatische update-systeem aan en gaat het opbouwen van de pagina's sneller. Verder zijn natuurlijk weer de nodige bug- en security-fixes doorgevoerd. Hieronder is een complete lijst van de veranderingen ten opzichte van de eerste bètarelease te vinden:
New browser featuresNew web developer features
- 235204 - Web Search (Ctrl+K, etc) should show a search dialog when search bar is disabled.
- 296827 - Dragging text into the Find text box does not enable search buttons or initiate search.
- 309860 - Dragging a URL to the tab strip should respect the Shift key (use Shift to control whether the new tab is selected immediately).
- 303279 - Safe Mode: Use "safe" localstore.
- 304403 - Safe Mode: Better UE.
- 283598 - [Mac] New .dmg artwork with diagrammatic instructions.
New extension developer features
- 309242 - E4X should be on by default, while preserving the comment hiding hack. (Specify e4x=1 or JavaScript 1.6 if you want to include XML comment literals.)
- 302462 - Support :valid, :invalid, :out-of-range, and :in-range pseudo-classes.
- 84400 - Support :disabled and :enabled pseudo-classes.
Notable bug fixes
- 303727 - Supply a supported way to access the nsIEditor of HTML input/textarea.
- 310976 - Treat 1.5.* as 1.5.infinity.
[break]De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:
- Fixes for several security holes.
- Fixes for several software-update bugs, including several that prevented updates from working.
- Web page rendering and interaction
- 300453 - 'Disable common annoyances' prevents focusing of designmode iframes. (Disallowing scripts from raising and lowering windows also prevents them from focusing frames. Also, sites like Gmail that focus iframes also focus the window even though they're not trying to.)
- 295074 - POST responses remain in the memory cache when using XMLHttpRequest.
- Back/Forward cache (fastback)
- 305462 - "Clear Cache Now" doesn't clear bfcache.
- 292965 - Improve eviction algorithm for bfcache.
- Windows-specific bugs
- 310957 - Switch Win32 SVG renderer from GDI+ to cairo. (This improves cross-platform consistency of SVG rendering and eliminates the requirement for Windows 98 users to download gdiplus.dll before they can see SVG content.)
- Mac-specific bugs
- 171680 - [Mac] Modifier keys have no effect on mouse wheel.
- 309730 - [Mac] Tweak wheel+modifiers preferences on OS X.
- 255415 - [Mac] Scroll wheel doesn't work after selecting bookmark from toolbar until you move mouse.
- 307340 - [Mac] Disable "Full Screen" UI for 1.5.
- 266769 - [Mac] Parent window isn't movable / draggable when sheet is open.
- Linux-specific bugs
- 287523 - [GTK] Insensitive (disabled) check/radio buttons can't be distinguished in some GTK themes.
Firefox 1.5 beta 2 voor Windows
Firefox 1.5 beta 2 voor Linux
Firefox 1.5 beta 2 voor Mac OS X[break]
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