Mozilla Released Final Version Of FireFox 1.5 Web Browser Today! (Link)

The final version of the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 web browser finally arrived. Packed with a new homepage (mozilla.com for Firefox and Thunderbird), the new version comes after only three release candidates.

Firefox 1.5 promises a better web experience, faster browsing, improved automatic updates, improved tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking, stronger security and more.

Possibly one of the first features that users will notice is the ability to move and rearrange the tabs simply by a drag & drop operation.

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.

The browser also got a "Clear Private Data" feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.

Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages were added, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.

Firefox 1.5 includes 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.

And finally, the browser adds support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.

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