However, it looks like this was scuttled after the feedback was overwhelmingly negative. I’m not sure whether users will find these more usable, but they’re more consistent with OS X applications and interface guidelines on other OSes.Īt one point, the JavaScript preferences were going to be whittled down to “disable common annoyances” or similar. The new dialogs have a tabbed interface similar to options dialogs on Mac OS X. Most of the interface remains the same, but the options for both Firefox and Thunderbird have been redesigned. That provides a noticeable performance boost. Now, Firefox saves the rendered page to cache and pulls that back up instead of re-rendering the page. That saved downloading time, but Firefox would still have to re-render pages every time. Previously, Firefox would save data for a page to cache, but re-render the page each time you navigated to it. Most browser users are familiar with this situation: You load a page in the browser, then click a link that takes you to a new page, and then return to the original page - and you have to wait for the browser to render the page that you were just looking at.įirefox 1.5 tackles this problem with a fast backwards and forwards navigation feature ( bfcache) that speeds up browsing pages that have already been rendered. The interfaces have not been radically redesigned, but there are quite a few changes that make it worth upgrading. If you’re used to Firefox and Thunderbird already, the switch to 1.5 won’t be much of a problem.

The new releases sport some interesting new features, including faster page navigation, redesigned preferences dialogs, a new update system, and much more. Firefox 1.5 is finally out the door, and Thunderbird 1.5 won’t be far behind.

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