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tinyvillager:
Pure speculation on my behalf...(and i'm not bashing Firefox)

After bouncing around various mozilla sites...
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/start/
http://www.mozillazine.org/

I find 1.07 still being pushed.Yes you can click around 1.5 is not hard to find,but the enthusiasm doesn't
seem to be with 1.5.I check the forum at  mozillazine and their are all sorts of complaints of memory bloat
and compatibility issus with flash and adblock,etc.(Mozilla developers need to rethink it's extension compatibility
as apposed to developers of  extension rewriting their stuff after new releases, imho.I'm waiting on a 1.5.1 i
guess is what i'm saying,any others doing the same?

I've actually cuddled up with Opera's browser during my wait,and after a month of kicking it around it has started
to grow on me.The way it handles bookmarks needs work(lord, how i miss right clicking from the bookmarks dropdown menu in Firefox.

 

brotherS:
Pure speculation on my behalf...(and i'm not bashing Firefox)

After bouncing around various mozilla sites...
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/start/
http://www.mozillazine.org/

I find 1.07 still being pushed.Yes you can click around 1.5 is not hard to find,but the enthusiasm doesn't
seem to be with 1.5.I check the forum at  mozillazine and their are all sorts of complaints of memory bloat
and compatibility issus with flash and adblock,etc.(Mozilla developers need to rethink it's extension compatibility
as apposed to developers of  extension rewriting their stuff after new releases, imho.I'm waiting on a 1.5.1 i
guess is what i'm saying,any others doing the same?
-tinyvillager (December 17, 2005, 05:53 PM)
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I'm still using 1.0.7 because I'm using lots of extensions and I want to give all the coders a bit more time to update/check their code before I'll update to 1.5.

I did use 1.5 on a friend's PC (with only a few extensions installed) and there were no problems at all.

mrainey:
There's some discussion here about mixed results with 1.5:


http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=14008

Carol Haynes:
I am using 1.5 and have fewer issues than I had with 1.0.7. I found the previous version hung, and tended to crash when I have my ATI AIW TV Window open. It doesn't seem to happen in 1.5

For me at least it also seems a little faster - but that may simply be a result of having reinstalled Windows recently.

I held off for a while until all of the extension I support had been updated. Now that they have everything seems to work fine.

Innuendo:
Most people who are sticking with 1.07 and pushing it iinstead of 1.5 are doing it because of what BrotherS has alluded to...they have extensions that will not work with 1.5.

I had a few that wouldn't work, but easily found replacements for the few that didn't work.

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