Like many others I’ve been waiting for the release of Firefox 1.5 with some excitement. While I really, really like using Safari on Mac OS X (built in spell check is awesome), Firefox still performs much better in many cases. Not having the middle mouse click working in Firefox on Mac OS X was too painful though, so with the release of Firefox 1.5 I’m pleased that is no longer an issue.
The new automatic update process is nice to see. Having to uninstall and reinstall Firefox on each new release is rather a pain. In the Mac OS X version I don’t see an obvious way manually check for updates, which is disappointing. Hopefully the Windows version doesn’t have the same limitation.
Along with this release is a push point to www.mozilla.com. Other than the fact that the .com site belongs to the Mozilla Corporation, it isn’t completely clear what the differences are from www.mozilla.org.