The countdown to Firefox 1.5 continues. According to the latest in the support forums, there will be an RC3 Real Soon Now. In my limited experience, an RC3 is rather unusual. My reading of the tea leaves is there are a bunch of problems yet to be ironed out. I could be wrong, though. YMMV. Insert disclaimer here.
In any case, one of those problems appears to be with the very popular AdBlock plug-in (link goes to their support forum). The advice from the Firefox forum is to switch to AdBlock Plus. However, when I did that, AdBlock Plus exhibited a menu display error. I won't go into detail but this is a bug that the current version of Adblock had fixed earlier but is now reappearing in Adblock Plus. Sigh. No one said OpenSource software is perfect.
I'm also becoming discouraged by some of the forum chatter which seems to indicate what I would consider to be major problems (especially with print preview) within Firefox 1.5, will not be fixed any time soon.
So, even after 1.5 goes gold, there may be major problems to deal with. Although I still think Firefox is better/safer/standards compliant than IE, the folks over at Mozilla need to know that I won't continue to use software that is unreliable.
