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Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 推出了，它有以下新增的功能：

• 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 support including DHTML accessibility.
• 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 of notable bug fixes since Deer Park Alpha 2

但要注意因為是 beta 版本的關係，有可能有不穩定的情況出現，現在有很多 extensions 及 themes 暫時並不相容 Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 的，試用與否就要考慮清楚了。

:: 試用感想 ::試用一段時間，發覺 <Back> 和 <Forward> 時真的比 1.0.6 版本時快得多，之前就算是 back，整個 page 都會 render 過一次，如今應該是 cached 了，所以網頁即時顯示出來，真的用得很爽。

至於 extension 的兼容問題，我必用的 Adblock 及 Tabbrowser Preferences 已經出了支援 1.5 Beta 1 的新版本，至於不支援的 extensions，大家可以嘗試使用 Nighty Tester Tools 這個 plugin 強行將它們變得兼容，這個方法未必一定成功，但我就成功令到 SessionSaver 及 Web Developer 這兩個 extensions 可以順利運行。:wink:

:: Update (2005-09-12) ::之前發現的 IDN Buffer Overflow 問題，Mozilla 已經提出解決方法，各位無論使用 1.0.6 或者 1.5 Beta 1 版本的用戶都請盡快修正。