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Great more exstentions, more media I want to block, ugh...

I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. These extensions to JavaScript will make the language easier to program in, which will be nice for the parts of Mozilla that are written in JavaScript (quite a bit, actually) and for things like Firefox extensions. It doesn't sound like they'll provide any undesirable functionality - we're not talking about floating popup windows here.

Why can't anyone write something to block all of this stuff out, I don't want to see graphics, or animations, or hear sounds,

That's precisely what several Firefox extensions do, and these additions to JavaScript will make extensions like that easier to write and maintain (and probably faster to use and smaller to download).

I love Opera, and it is my browser of choice but I still have to deal with unwanted flash animations.

Well, maybe you should switch to Firefox with the FlashBlock extension. Or if you really never want to see Flash animations, you could always uninstall the Flash plugin...

If you're on Windows, I'd strongly recommend Proxomitron - a kickass personal web proxy that is able to strip out all the crap. If you're on Linux, there's Privoxy, or you could just use Greasemonkey (although that's possibly overkill).

leetkey - whaat is going on with the links here?

this is a test.

It's called Single Window mode.

See here.

http://passwordmaker.mozdev.org/index.html is an implementation very similar to what you describe, although it is all client-side. "The URL which, when concatenated with the Master Password textbox, becomes the message from which an unique password is generated."

It's more secure, too. Software isn't fooled by Unicode character set spoofing -- two Unicode characters may render to the same glyph in a particular font and thus be indistinguishable to a human, but they'll generate different inputs to a password generator's hash function. That means you'll give the phishing site a password that's only valid for the phishing site's domain, not for the domain they're imitating.

Obviously you have to choose a really good master password, and preferably you're using software that needs additional settings (e.g. PasswordMaker's "l33t level") to generate the correct output. It's easier to remember one excellent master password than 500 mediocre individual passwords.

".. can get rid of them with less effort than writing a Greasemonkey script by hand", rather.

Teach me not to use preview....

Greasemonkey

Platypus

".. can get rid of them with less effort than writing a Greasemonkey script by hand", rather.

Teach me not to use preview....

Greasemonkey

Platypus

I realize I'm a bit late with my reply, but I've had similar discomfort with hitting the shift key all the time. Since buying a touchstream lp (http://www.fingerworks.com/) my pinkies have finally recovered from years of abuse. The integrated programmer's punctuation pad and customizability of the unit have drastically cut down the amount of reaching my hands have to do to reach those "rarely used" keys.

I actually bought it to aleviate wrist pain from using a standard mouse, and cuz it looked pretty damn sweet. At $300US, the price is kinda steep, but it's been totally worth it to me, especially since they keep coming out with firmware upgrades.

P.S. Xwinder is totally sweet. Oh, and the gestures are badass, it's like all-in-one gestures (http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/list.php/Firefox/ all#aio) for every app, sorta.

I am not affiliated in any way with fingerworks, just a satisfied customer. Hope this helps.

Um... It was a parody on the spelling of parity. Yeah. That's the ticket.
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Um... It was a parody on the spelling of parity. Yeah. That's the ticket.
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God damn thats good service. It's already available. Kudos to Chad Walstrom! Click on File Sharing here.

We have a new expression: zero-day features!

Commence with.....

Monkey Kombat!
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So what one has to do in order to get rid of the complex meaningless passwords is define a single master password for both PasswordMaker and Firefox and with the help of their encryption capabilities use it to respectively generate and auto-fill distinct passwords for all the sites he/she is registered on.

The need to enter the master password into PasswordMaker is slightly unpleasant, considering that you already enter it once for FF's session, but, hopefully, this will be dealt with in the future PM's versions.

Highly recommended stuff.

It would be excellent to see a greasemonkey script with this functionality.

Maybe a possible pulldown box next to each auction listing with the cost of each sort of shipping etc.

Hmm... maybe after exams :)

I've been mostly ignoring JavaScript for some time now. With many useful [browser-side, modify web pages locally to suit your presentation desires] Greasemonkey scripts available, however, and the relative ease of creating my own scripts to customise web pages I view, I'm suddenly very interested in JavaScript.

What about you?

If I was not paying taxes, I surely wouldn't try to find a way around it!
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Only on Slashdot would this comment be insightful...*sigh*
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I hacked together a quick firefox plugin and posted it on mycroft. You can download it from http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html. Search for bittorrent and click on the icon to install.

"Am I really Me, or am I a simulation of me? Do I still have a soul? If I'm not me, then where am I?"
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As for Azureus, I don't see the problem with restarting. It may be a bit slow at first, but it quickly picks up.

As for Fireofx... Thats where the Session Saver extension comes in handy! My new favorite extension.

Exactly. The sales guy should NOT have to worry about how to patch his OS, deal with virii, etc.

Put the users on a locked-down *nix machine with alternative browsers and (especially) email clients. Not the ultimate solution, perhaps, but it's got to be better than dealing with virus, trojan and spyware problems.
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Kim Peek can't compete, he's able to do a few tasks extremely efficiently, very very well, and his brain houses an enormous amount of archived data but any challenge outside his narrow range of useless natural abilities and he falls flat on his face. He wasn't born a creative genius, just a genius.
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I can understand why the parent was modded down, but let me quote George Bush,

These are still dangerous times. There's an enemy out there that would like to hurt us and change our way of life and shake our will and shake our confidence. Friday, July 30, 2004. Springfield, MO.

It seems Osama has changed our way of lives, or has Mr. Bush and his closest friends?
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huh? The u.s. has a monopoly or some sort of copywrite on the fountain of knowledge... since when ? They paid for their education, one way or another. This reminds of the way the average american thinks in regards to nuclear weapons. Somehow, someway, America was blessed by the grace of god to unearth the secrets of the Atom... we did it before everybody else.. therefore it must be some god given right to possess vast stores of nuclear armaments.

These same people sit around all befuddled as to why North Korea has nuclear weapons. And they won't believe you if you mention India had them in 73, Pakistan had an active nuclear program running in the late 70's (most probably had nuclear weapons in the mid 80's, untested till the nineties iirc.)

This is just a stop-gap measure, it's too little, too late. India already has proven cryogenic rocket boosters. And only just emphasizes this war on terrorism is a load of god damn bullshit.
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I use my cock for a god damn computer scan, unzip these trousers and lay the head of my cock on this fucking thing... then I can take a piss down the throat of government for being so bloody ignorant to the spirit of American history, it's people and it's founding principles.

This country is going to hell in a hand basket, people need to wake the fuck up.. all of them, go ahead, chip me.. put it right in my fucking forehead.
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http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/

People should also realize that the world is becoming more cross-disciplinary. It's very rare to find a mechanical engineer for example who does not work with some software atleast. All (new) Engineers know MATLAB (basic script writing, using predefined functions) and hack together pretty useful code.
My point is that the era of having only pure coders or developers is on its way out. The future belongs to people who not only code, but also possess a strong understanding of other cross-disciplinary areas.
The sooner people realize this, the better it will be for them!
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• We have the browser-engines accessible to us through other means, so engine-switching ain't gonna do it. In a way, we already have it.
• We have theming for Firefox so looks ain't gonna do it.
• We also have all the extensions we'll ever need with Firefox. If Netscape has something Firefox doesn't - we'll implement an extension for it eventually.

Check out the Flashblock extension. It replaces Flash content with a button. The Flash does not play by default.

Keep this in mind the next time you're scratching that itch.
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BTW, the first sentance was originally "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL will release Netscape 8.0 - also being reported at BetaNews and a growing number of sites." ... but he changed that to CNet which has the 5 page review ... the Firefox 1.03 reference is from BetaNews.

Finally, I had added this closing statement/question "While Netscape was the dominant browser years ago, it has faded dramatically ... does this release have significant enough features such that end-users will give it another try? Time will tell." ... and I personally think it's a bit too little too late - Firefox works darn well for me, and with the iview extension, I have one-click access to IE if need be. But the browser wars are far from over as IE7 appears to be copying many of Firefox's features, plus Opera and Safari continue to get good press ... so time will tell!

Just download the IEView extension for Firefox if you really must use that other browser..

as c0ldfusi0n said "Or better yet, just use IE View & Firefox View."

Or better yet, just use IE View & Firefox View. Context menus in both IE and FF to view current page in the other browser.

Someone should write an extention for Firefox that gives the download manager bit torrent support

This has been thought of before:

• http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23675 5

the user-customizable CSS and link style in Opera -- does Firefox have something comparable?

Yes. Firefox has something staggeringly, jaw-droppingly better: Greasemonkey , which lets you easily add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior.

Spend 30 minutes skimming Mark Pilgrim's online guide to Greasemonkey, and checking out his example scripts -- you will be blown away!

Who sucks more? Spider-Man or the Silver Surfer?
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Firefox has gestures, popup blocking, ad blocking, site scripting through GreaseMonkey, tabs, themes, a million other user written extensions that can enhance your web browser, strong community support, fast updates for security fixes. And it's free, free as in beer, free as in speech. What else could you ask for ?

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http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

write your own! http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

Session Saver
http://adblock.mozdev.org/sessionsaver/

It will save your last session by default even if the browser crashes. You can configure it to consolidate sessions across browsers. You can also configure it to save a custom session.

tabs are cool, but much much awesomer is http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ after installing a few greasemonkey scripts, i cant imagine using anything but firefox ever again.

0.3.3 is latest, and will work with FF 1.0.4.

Having GreaseMonkey add a random signature to comments was a feature that I felt was long missing from slashdot.
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As GreaseMonkey.MozDev.Org is slashdotted, here's the obligitory link to get Greasemonkey:
Install/Download GreaseMonkey

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I write websites so I can present ideas to people. I don't want them to see my site the way they want to see it. I want them to see it the way it was meant to be seen.

That's a pretty weird look on thngs. I've been using RIP for awhile now. I don't even view Slashdot the way it was "meant to be". I want the content of your page, not the stupid side bars and stuff.

A good example is CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/newswe ek.quran/index.html

There is so much crap on the sides of the screen that you have about 2-3 inches to actually read the article. It's almost like people are trying to get away with BSing their way through articles, making such a short summary of the news event but making it look like 5+ pages.