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Firefox 1.5 Beta Nearly Ready

Thurs, Sep8, 20, 2005

The Mozilla Foundation Thursday posted previews of the upcoming Firefox 1.5 beta, and said that the real deal would be available for download Thursday night or Friday morning.

Firefox 1.5 will feature a new software update mechanism, and "Fastback," which caches previously visited pages in memory for faster display after clicking back and forward buttons. The so-called "release candidates" of the beta edition were posted for last-minute testing prior to the beta being released, wrote Asa Dotzler, the community coordinator for Mozilla, in his blog. The update, once called Deer Park delayed several times, most recently in late July when Mozilla said that the addition of new features had slowed development.

Source: Webtech News