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All Time:	(3.5)
Version 1.5rc1:	(3.8)
Selected Version:	1.5rc1
Release Date:	2005-11-01
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 1.5rc1):	12,169
Downloads (all versions):	1,110,730

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Product Description:

Firefox is an award winning preview of next generation browsing technology from mozilla.org.

Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead.

What's new in this version:

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 JavaScript 1.6.
Many security enhancements.
List ofnotable bug fixes since Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS Classic

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.5rc1:
Overall Rating:	(3.8)	Features:	(4.2)	Support:	(3.6)
Ease of Use:	(3.8)	Quality / Stability:	(3.4)	Price:	(4.0)

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Still Annoying - Version: 3.0.3, 11/11/2008 06:51PM PST

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Mackidockie

Firefox 3.0.3 is far better at rendering HTML and CSS than its predecessors, but it still doesn't integrate well with Mac OS X. It's faster than ever and has more features, but it's still annoyingly clunky. Unless you need or want to use Firefox addons, <rhetorical)Why bother?</rhetorical> The word "feh" comes to mind.

MacOS X System fonts "Gill Sans Light" & "Helvetica Neue Light" - Version: 3.0.3, 10/25/2008 06:52AM PST

(0 of 1 users found this comment useful)

mediaVinci

Hello,

I could not manage Firefox 3.0.3 to display the font face "Gill Sans Light" which I have correctly specified in my css properties.

e.g.

.headline { font-size: 72px; font-family: "Gill Sans Light", "Gill Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; }

This doesn't seem to work neither in Apple Safari. Has anyone a clue how to fix this?

graphically & sincerely,

Marc Klein

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MacOS X System fonts "Gill Sans Light" & "Helvetica Neue Light"

MacOS X System fonts "Gill Sans Light" & "Helvetica Neue Light"

Awesome Firefox. Super fast. Switched back from Camino. - Version: 3.0.3, 9/27/2008 09:02AM PST

terryl1

Still a few bugs, but overall an awesome product. Thanks Mozilla team! I used to use Camino, but with this version, I don't see many advantages with Camino anymore.