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Firefox 1.5 RC1 Posted on: 11/02/2005 03:45 PM Firefox 1.5 RC 1 is a test preview of our award-winning Web browser. Firefox 1.5 RC 1 is available for our testing community, Web site and Web application developers, and our Extension developers. Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5 RC 1: * Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved. * 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 java script 1.6. * Many security enhancements. * List of notable bug fixes since Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Firefox 1.5 RC1
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