The beta release of Firefox 1.5 will be hitting the streets in September, and will include faster browser navigation, improvements to back and forward button performance, drag-and-drop reordering for browser tabs, some improvements to popup blocking, software update functionality, an improved extensions system and support for technologies like SVG (similar to Macromedia Flash).SearchEngineJournal pointed out that a lot of the current Firefox 1.0.6 extensions will not work not work with Firefox 1.5. I thought I’d check how many of my extensions wouldn’t work and 9 of my extensions currently don’t work with 1.5/Deer Park: gmail notifier, fireFTP, Google Pagerank status, sort extensions, Chromedit, Minimise to tray, Lasttab, URI id and Bookmarks synchronizer.
Unfortunately, I am so attached to some of these extensions that I can’t imagine using Firefox without them. Firefox 1.0.6 is a very good browser and I think I’m going to stick with it rather than upgrading to 1.5.
I think a lot of other people will be in the same boat as me. If you want to see which of your current extensions won’t work on 1.5 then install Deer Park, which does a compatibility test before its first launch.
