Firefox 1.5 RC1 can automatically update

On Tuesday, Mozilla released a version of Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1. However, Mozilla soon suffered from user complaints about its update mechanism.

Users can now download Firefox 1.5 RC1 version - a new step before the official version of Firefox 1.5 is released later this year - via either the FPT server or Mozilla's website. This test version is fully compatible with Windows , Mac OSX and Linux operating systems .

However, Firefox 1.5 RC1's automatic update feature - one of the latest features of this open-source browser - can only run at 690K, far below the application's 5MB speed. Automatic Windows updates.

A lot of people use the Windows-based Firefox browser in trouble with Firefox 1.5 RC1's automatic update service. ' When I use the browser's auto-update feature, sometimes the download speed is 686Kb and sometimes up to 6MB along with the message' Firefox is installing . 'and after 20 seconds the browser clock starts but the subject line is still Firefox Beta 2, 'a user said.

The author of this article has also tested the browser's auto-update feature and received the same results. Only by downloading the RC1 update board directly on the website will it be updated to update successfully.

According to Mozilla's development center, there will be at least one more version of RC released before the release of the version later this year.

The war of market share .

According to the latest statistics, Firefox browser market share has surpassed 10%. Currently global market share of Firefox has increased by 11.5%.

Since April, Firefox's market share has increased by 2.8% while Internet Explorer browser market share has fallen by 1.2%. Current market share of IE is about 85.5%.

' Firefox's global market share is still growing and it seems that more and more people are using Netscape and IE browsers to switch to Firefox, ' a researcher said.

Predicting the market share of Firefox can reach 14%, of Internet Explore will be only 80.7% and Apple's Safari is 3.6%.

HVD - ( TechWeb )