Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate announced
mozillaZine announced that the long awaited Firefox 1.5 Release candidate will be available October 28th!
For those of you that do not know what a relsease candidate is I shall explain, A release candidate is simply the last pre-release version of a piece of software to go for testing (usually more common in the Open Source Community) and by testing that means just simply to make sure that all the bugs have been fixed an the software is stable. Before a Pre-release a beta (or 2) is released, these are usually largely stable(i.e don’t crash every minute) but need the bugs Ironed out.
The Release notes state that the biggest additions to the new version are
- Improvements to automated update system.
- Improvements to Web site rendering and performance.
- Several security fixes.
- Bug Fixes
The automated update system is a huge feature, which will allow patches to be much smaller so the entire firefox binary doesn’t have to be downloaded everytime.
I will try and get a full list of the new features and post it later.
edit:
additional features
- SVG
- Fastback - which is memory caching of previously visited pages i.e your back/forward button
- Ability to group tabs and drag tabs(which I always wanted)
- One click removal of cookies, history and temporary internet files
SVG graphics are cool. They will basically be an XML based W3C compliant version of macromedia flash.