As has been posted forwards, backwards, and all over the web, Firefox 1.5 has been released to the general public (notice there is also a new website for Firefox and Thunderbird).  I haven’t decided if I’m going to upgrade yet due to the fact that I had major issues with the 1.5 RC3 release concerning extension compatibility…I might just give it a while to let all the extension devs sort things out with the RTW as I have quite a few extensions I simply cannot live without.  Maybe in a month or so.

That all being said, Firefox is one of (if not the most) successful OSS projects ever released, and it’s probably one of my favorite (non-developer related) applications I use on a daily basis besides Outlook.  Security issues aside (and there really haven’t been that many), the Firefox guys pretty much nailed it on the first try, and with the 1.5 release I would most definitely consider this a “mature” product.

I keep meaning to hack together a post listing all the extensions I use; I use enough that I would probably have to promote the post to article status as it would be pretty long…so perhaps I’ll work on that this weekend.

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