Firefox 1.5 Released

[pzarquon]

We've had a few (http://hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=2640) Firefox (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=1914) threads (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=5378) here, so I figured I should mention that Firefox 1.5 has been released (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10539032/). You can go straight to Mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org/) to download it.

There's no reason to be using Microsoft Internet Explorer, and the fact that it comes on your PC should be Exhibit A in that argument.

That said, I've been struggling with a few of the changes/quirks in the new version on the PC side, so much so that I'm holding off upgrading my Mac systems until I figure them all out.

[Konaguy]

I've been using 1.5 since it was Release Candidate. I've found it to be
very stable and I really like the new features.

[pzarquon]

I'm wondering if I broke something. My install of 1.5 doesn't behave at all like I think it should. Most keyboard inputs result in the page being redrawn with formatting stripped... useful in some cases, but not what I expect to happen when I hit space or page-down or tab. And Gmail now renders some screens in some bizarre four-frame nightmare that I can't sort out.

I don't suppose there are any Mozilla experts that might recognize these symptoms?

[Konaguy]

My best advise is delete your existing profile and create a new one. I know
that is huge hassle if you have a lot of extensions. But it usually cures the
problem in most cases. If you have a lot of extensions, you can install them
all at once using http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/index.html

[pzarquon]

Thanks, Aaron. Rather than messing with profiles, I just completely uninstalled it (I'd just installed 1.5 over the old version) and reinstalled from scratch. Works beautifully now!

Fortunately, I don't use many extensions. The only one I do use, BookmarksSynchronizer, was tweaked to work with 1.5.

[Konaguy]

For future reference, uninstalling FF won't remove the profile. So if your
profile goes haywire and you re-install FF.It will use the corrupted profile.
I've installed like 32 extensions on FF 1.5 installation, so when I need to
re-install, luckily I make recent backups of my profile.