Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 has come and gone without a word from me. To catch you up, all but two of my fifteen extensions are working now: ReloadEvery and Wikipedia. Someone on my earlier post mentioned they had a working copy of ReloadEvery, but I may just end up removing it from my extension list. I’ve survived without it for this long. Anyway, I didn’t start this post to talk about Beta 2.
I’m excited to announce that Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is available! If no glaring bugs are found in the release candidate, it should become the live release within a week or two.
I haven’t found anything really new in RC1. It’s pretty much just a cleaned up version of Betas 1 and 2. In case you didn’t read my last post, the new features include an improved options panel, faster back and forward navigation, a slick new auto-updater, shiny new error pages, a new “clear private data” dialog, and drag-n-drop browser tabs. I’m excited for this to be coming out of beta so I can recommend it to all my friends. It really is a marked improvement over the 1.0.x series.
Does it use less memory then the 1.0.x line? My big gripe with it in the past is how much RAM it sucks up.
Here it is in Top:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5519 james 15 0 100m 26m 31m S 4.6 42.8 1:15.85 firefox-bin
As you can see, not good on a system with only 64mb ram.
I’m wary of upgrading until all my favorite extentions do, too. Plus, there’s always some bugs waiting to be awoken.
Heh. My school computers have IE. I like the popup blocker spoof.
Sorry about the double post.