I gave the new Firefox 1.5 RC3 release a test drive over the weekend…it was one of the shortest test drives in history though and lasted long enough for me to find the Firefox 1.0.7 download to revert to the previous version (which worked flawlessly amazingly enough…try doing that with other software). Unfortunately Shannon happened to message me online right as I was upgrading and was victim to a slew of 4 letter words (sorry about that) from me saying exactly where the mozilla devs could put their browser.
I won’t get into too much detail here, but needless to say it’s not ready yet. Over half my extensions aren’t compatible (though many claim to be), and there were numerous GUI flaws, the most glaring of which was that I lost all my scroll bars. I later found out it’s related to the theme I use (Noia 2.0 eXtreme)…which is odd because the upgrade process claimed to have updated my theme for use with a new version of Noia. Actually, it claimed to have updated a lot of my extensions to 1.5 compatible versions, but that most definitely was not the case.
Firefox 1.0.7 works “good enough” for me, so I may just skip the whole 1.5 upgrade and wait for 2.0…there are quite a few extensions that I simply can’t live without, so the risk just isn’t worth it. No hard feelings though, and I wish the Firefox team continued success.
Posted
Nov 22 2005, 08:12 PM
by
Jayson Knight