| Latest Firefox beta breaks extensions, but works well overall |
Sep. 12, 2005
The Firefox 1.5 beta is out, and at a first glance, it looks pretty darn good -- although it does break some Firefox extensions, writes eWEEK.com's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
"But -- and this is a big 'but' -- this is a beta build, so there is no guarantee that it will work. It worked with every Web site I tried, but it also will not work with the vast majority of extension programs. One of my colleagues found that five out of seven of her extensions, including several that were indispensable to her daily work, no longer functioned," Vaughan Nichols writes.
Apparently this is by design. "Firefox's Extension System for 1.0x and below was broken. For example, the installation, upgrade, and uninstall subsystems were not very robust at all," he said.
Read Vaughan-Nichols' entire analysis at eWEEK.com:
Firefox 1.5 Beta Looks Better than Ever
Firefox also has a serious security vulnerability, which Mozilla Corp. immediately addressed with a workaround.
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