The Mozilla Organization has released Firefox 1.5 beta 1, which they describe as “the first Beta release of our next generation Firefox browser.”
Firefox is the Web browser that’s made a splash across Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating system platforms for its speed, privacy and security capabilities, support for tabbed browsing, customizability and other features. It’s free to download and use.
Known as “Deer Park” in its early development, the new version of Firefox features automated update capabilities, faster browser navigation, drag and drop reordering of tabs, improvements to popup blocking, a “Clear Private Data” feature, the addition of Answers.com to the search engine list, improvements to usability, better accessibility, improved support for Mac OS X and more. You can review what’s new online.
The current release version of Firefox is 1.0.6. Firefox 1.5 requires Mac OS X v10.2 or later.