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the best places for xul reference:
http://www.xulplanet.com/references/elemref/ref_XU LElement.html
http://mb.eschew.org/
http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/xulref/
http://mozref.com/reference/
http://xulmaker.mozdev.org/xpath-evaluator/no_wrap /xul.xml
http://books.mozdev.org/html/index.html
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/12/28/21442 49.shtml

Schema Definition for xul (xsd)
http://xulmaker.mozdev.org/xpath-evaluator/no_wrap /xul.xsd

For live help you can try channel #xul on irc.mozilla.org. but please patient when asking questions, since most developers are probably very busy managing multiple xul projects.

the best places for xul reference:
http://www.xulplanet.com/references/elemref/ref_XU LElement.html
http://mb.eschew.org/
http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/xulref/
http://mozref.com/reference/
http://xulmaker.mozdev.org/xpath-evaluator/no_wrap /xul.xml
http://books.mozdev.org/html/index.html
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/12/28/21442 49.shtml

Schema Definition for xul (xsd)
http://xulmaker.mozdev.org/xpath-evaluator/no_wrap /xul.xsd

For live help you can try channel #xul on irc.mozilla.org. but please patient when asking questions, since most developers are probably very busy managing multiple xul projects.

the best places for xul reference:
http://www.xulplanet.com/references/elemref/ref_XU LElement.html
http://mb.eschew.org/
http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/xulref/
http://mozref.com/reference/
http://xulmaker.mozdev.org/xpath-evaluator/no_wrap /xul.xml
http://books.mozdev.org/html/index.html
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/12/28/21442 49.shtml

Schema Definition for xul (xsd)
http://xulmaker.mozdev.org/xpath-evaluator/no_wrap /xul.xsd

For live help you can try channel #xul on irc.mozilla.org. but please patient when asking questions, since most developers are probably very busy managing multiple xul projects.

You're right. Some people never learn.

Thank you!!! When will people get it into their heads that the Holocaust was a very serious threat to society as a whole, and not a term to be lightly tossed around like a sack of potatoes?!
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Jeez, as I'm typing this there is this really annoying animated New Egg banner at the top of my Slashdot window. Some people never learn!

yeah, they never did learn anything

Have you tried User Agent Switcher? I've had good success with
telling my 'IE Only' apps that I'm using IE.

I use the LiveHTTPHeaders extension for Mozilla and Firefox. It handily fits in my side bar. I wish it were available for other browsers too.

I don't, and I use linux. Check your plugins settings. Try http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp and use the automatic install link.

worst bug I stumbled upon twice: if you happen to hard-reset a comp with FF open you may lose all your bookmarks.

I've never encountered this problem. You shouldn't really hard-reset in any OS, anyways - you get plenty of warnings about it, so it isn't a bug. Human error. If it recurs, get this: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/bookmark backup

FF wants to save everything in same directory. How about remembering where I last saved pics, html or zip/tar files? How about title of document becoming saved file name? msie is a bit better about that.

Well, different people like different behaviours. You might want to use this: http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/downsort/

I don't, and I use linux. Check your plugins settings. Try http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp and use the automatic install link.

worst bug I stumbled upon twice: if you happen to hard-reset a comp with FF open you may lose all your bookmarks.

I've never encountered this problem. You shouldn't really hard-reset in any OS, anyways - you get plenty of warnings about it, so it isn't a bug. Human error. If it recurs, get this: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/bookmark backup

FF wants to save everything in same directory. How about remembering where I last saved pics, html or zip/tar files? How about title of document becoming saved file name? msie is a bit better about that.

Well, different people like different behaviours. You might want to use this: http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/downsort/

Every invention has at least two effects: the intended one and the other(s). For Flash, the intended effect is letting visually-oriented people do their thing. The unintended effect is shielding the rest of us from their thing, either by not installing Flash (my choice) or blocking it.

It's for you to say whether your life is incomplete without the minor celebrity pool player ad.

I've found that my life is substantially more complete without things which are best presented via Flash. Your friend is doing a great job by putting his ads in Flash, not least because I'll never see them. Tell him he needn't change on my account.

I'm a Linux/Libre software zealot who's 100% in favor of Flash. By not having it installed, I miss out on all the things on which I want to miss out.

This is cool. If enough people use this to create cool stuff, and it generates enough publicity, maybe more companies will follow. If not, Grease monkey will let us most of this, but not as easily.

Greasemonkey is good and on asa's blog, platypus was mentioned which is a great new extension to interactively modify pages and generating greasemonkey scripts from your changes. Now, browse happy, worry free, and worship our common WWW illiterate god! I hate Microsoft, and Apple is cool, especially since OS X builds on open source.

*starts masturbating to the karma rating boost*

Greasemonkey is good and on asa's blog, platypus was mentioned which is a great new extension to interactively modify pages and generating greasemonkey scripts from your changes. Now, browse happy, worry free, and worship our common WWW illiterate god! I hate Microsoft, and Apple is cool, especially since OS X builds on open source.

*starts masturbating to the karma rating boost*

You forgot Greasemonkey. that's my fave after Adblock and Flashblock.

You forgot Greasemonkey. that's my fave after Adblock and Flashblock.

Mozilla.org will probably get hammered!! Here's a google cache of the Firefox Mirror List

And while you're at it don't forget those extensions:

FoxyTunes: http:www.iosart.com/foxytunes/firefox/

AdBlock: http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Or you can just go get more at: update.mozilla.org

Happy Browsing!

For the uninitiated... ROT13 encoder/decoder is available as a FireFox plugin over at MNenhy

Seems like a new Firefox extension (and something for other browsers too) is required to kill that stone cold.

Might jumplink do the trick?

You are save (for now) from GNAA last measure with this: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Actually, yes, I am, and I love it.

Have you ever looked at the Firefox extensions? The Firefox download is tiny, under 5MB[*], because Firefox leaves the "extras" to individual choice.

Most (if not all) of the functionality you are asking for is available. For example:

• FireFTP XUL FTP Client
• Tab and Window Extensions Full control of tab behavior. Specifically, TabX and Tab Browser Preferences.

And what would you have it do? Behave like IE where Ctrl-T does nothing at all?
Personally, I dislike IE's "Ctrl-N clones the window" as 90% of the time, that is not what I want.

# Ctrl-O in firefox is the normal file open dialog...not as useful as IE's URL-or-file-browse feature

In Firefox, Ctrl-L sets the focus to the address bar for entering a URL. Ctrl-O opens the file browser. In IE to open a url I can tyle Ctrl-O; Same number of keystrokes as Firefox's Ctrl-L. But, to open local file, I need to type Ctrl-O, TAB, TAB, TAB, Enter (or, I can switch from kbd to mouse to click Browse, then switch back to kbd) to achieve what I can do with Ctrl-O in Firefox.

# I wish Firefox had an option to let each tab have its own close button...often I want to quickly close a bunch of tabs based on their title, but instead I have to switch to each one and close it seperately.

TabX will add a close widget to each tab. Personally, that's too busy to suit me. Plus it's aggravating to click on a tab I wanted to see, only to have it close because I clicked too close to the edge. (Of course, that's why I have UndoCloseTab extension.) Have you tried middle-clicking (scroll wheel) on a tab? It does exactly what you're asking for and is less prone to fumble fingers.

Use Firefox exclusively for a few weeks and I think you'll find that those "usability pluses" are really familiarity and not usability. And if something seems difficult, take a look at the online help, you may be going about things the wrong way. Or, there may be an extension that will do what you want.

[*] The IE installer only looks small; it downloads another 12-60MB when run.

Have you ever looked at the Firefox extensions? The Firefox download is tiny, under 5MB[*], because Firefox leaves the "extras" to individual choice.

Most (if not all) of the functionality you are asking for is available. For example:

• FireFTP XUL FTP Client
• Tab and Window Extensions Full control of tab behavior. Specifically, TabX and Tab Browser Preferences.

And what would you have it do? Behave like IE where Ctrl-T does nothing at all?
Personally, I dislike IE's "Ctrl-N clones the window" as 90% of the time, that is not what I want.

# Ctrl-O in firefox is the normal file open dialog...not as useful as IE's URL-or-file-browse feature

In Firefox, Ctrl-L sets the focus to the address bar for entering a URL. Ctrl-O opens the file browser. In IE to open a url I can tyle Ctrl-O; Same number of keystrokes as Firefox's Ctrl-L. But, to open local file, I need to type Ctrl-O, TAB, TAB, TAB, Enter (or, I can switch from kbd to mouse to click Browse, then switch back to kbd) to achieve what I can do with Ctrl-O in Firefox.

# I wish Firefox had an option to let each tab have its own close button...often I want to quickly close a bunch of tabs based on their title, but instead I have to switch to each one and close it seperately.

TabX will add a close widget to each tab. Personally, that's too busy to suit me. Plus it's aggravating to click on a tab I wanted to see, only to have it close because I clicked too close to the edge. (Of course, that's why I have UndoCloseTab extension.) Have you tried middle-clicking (scroll wheel) on a tab? It does exactly what you're asking for and is less prone to fumble fingers.

Use Firefox exclusively for a few weeks and I think you'll find that those "usability pluses" are really familiarity and not usability. And if something seems difficult, take a look at the online help, you may be going about things the wrong way. Or, there may be an extension that will do what you want.

[*] The IE installer only looks small; it downloads another 12-60MB when run.

Have you ever looked at the Firefox extensions? The Firefox download is tiny, under 5MB[*], because Firefox leaves the "extras" to individual choice.

Most (if not all) of the functionality you are asking for is available. For example:

• FireFTP XUL FTP Client
• Tab and Window Extensions Full control of tab behavior. Specifically, TabX and Tab Browser Preferences.

And what would you have it do? Behave like IE where Ctrl-T does nothing at all?
Personally, I dislike IE's "Ctrl-N clones the window" as 90% of the time, that is not what I want.

# Ctrl-O in firefox is the normal file open dialog...not as useful as IE's URL-or-file-browse feature

In Firefox, Ctrl-L sets the focus to the address bar for entering a URL. Ctrl-O opens the file browser. In IE to open a url I can tyle Ctrl-O; Same number of keystrokes as Firefox's Ctrl-L. But, to open local file, I need to type Ctrl-O, TAB, TAB, TAB, Enter (or, I can switch from kbd to mouse to click Browse, then switch back to kbd) to achieve what I can do with Ctrl-O in Firefox.

# I wish Firefox had an option to let each tab have its own close button...often I want to quickly close a bunch of tabs based on their title, but instead I have to switch to each one and close it seperately.

TabX will add a close widget to each tab. Personally, that's too busy to suit me. Plus it's aggravating to click on a tab I wanted to see, only to have it close because I clicked too close to the edge. (Of course, that's why I have UndoCloseTab extension.) Have you tried middle-clicking (scroll wheel) on a tab? It does exactly what you're asking for and is less prone to fumble fingers.

Use Firefox exclusively for a few weeks and I think you'll find that those "usability pluses" are really familiarity and not usability. And if something seems difficult, take a look at the online help, you may be going about things the wrong way. Or, there may be an extension that will do what you want.

[*] The IE installer only looks small; it downloads another 12-60MB when run.

go to
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/prefbutt ons
and install the prefbuttons extension.

Then "customize toolbar" and drag the send-referrer-checkbox to your toolbar.

Sage, however, is an extension that needs to be installed separately. It's not the task of the Mozilla team to improve it, but the task of the Sage developer(s).

"Sanitize" sounds like having the X extension preinstalled but requiring several more clicks.

You also realize that one of the biggest advertisers on this site is Microsoft? Didn't you just scroll thru the big ad for Visual Studio.net?

Most of us use Firefox, available here. This browser offers a feature to "extend" it's functionality through what they call "extensions". One of such "extensions" is called "AdBlock", available here.

With the mention of both Third Voice and the Annotation Engine, I'm surprised the somewhat more standard (or at least endorsed by the W3C) Annotea wasn't referenced.

Besides having native support in Amaya, there's a plug-in being actively developed for the Mozilla family of browsers.

Probably not.

If we're savvy enough to need a kernel tarball, we're savvy enough to run AdBlock, no?

If SVG ads begin to be a problem, I think we're more likely to see the Firefox extension FlashBlock begin supporting SVG as well.

FlashBlock (formerly known as FlashClickToView) allows one to create a whitelist of flash you always want to view.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Look at Greasemonkey, You can do this today in FF

What do you think of the complaints of how patent litigation is hurting companies? Some days it sounds like the trumped-up malpractice crisis of the '80s.

Myhrvold: Well, this is even stranger. We actually did a study on this. The overall number of lawsuits for patents is growing, but so is the overall number of patents. So explain that to me.

- this guy doesn't need anything to be explained to him, he is a crook. He did a 'study'? Let him point to the study. Let him show us that study. I bet it was nothing like a study. I bet he sit down with a couple of guys over a beer and talked about how much money they could make from litigation and that was his study.

If you then look at it and ask, what fraction of those lawsuits are due to companies that have no products, the IP-only companies--it's about 2 percent. If you look at it and say what fraction of lawsuits are due to large technology companies, it's about 2 percent.

-Look at that, he's got some numbers! I bet he just pulled those numbers out of thin air. I don't know how many companies are out there suing each other over stupid patents but I am sure it is not 2 percent. It is either something very very small like 0.0001 percent or something very large, like over 60 percent but saying it's 2 percent doesn't make any sense. It's not a real number.

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This guy hopes to make money on litigation that much is clear. He calls himself an inventor. Inventor my ass! I 'invented' things. Plenty of things. One of them is in my russkey extension - selecting text in a browser and transforming it into a different type of text right on the page. There. An invention. I bet anyone can come up with that. And I bet it would stiffle innovation if I started suing other people for doing the same.

Because you aren't using Adblock?

Umm...wouldn't that be FOUR times?

1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3

Cocksucker.
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http://adblock.mozdev.org/

If your Dictionary.com search plugin isn't there for some reason, try this.

Googling around, this page shows that there is something called "Firefox Ultrabar". I don't use Firefox (but I do use Mozilla). I'm not much of a plug-in head. However, assembling a dictionary.com HTTP request isn't significantly different, so presuambly, it should be trivial. Try putting these into google: "Firefox dictionary.com plugin". I'm sure the answer is there somewhere. I believe both of these links will be interesting, the second more then the first: Lots of plug ins and Dictionary specific plug ins

The other way, is just put the misspelled word into google. Most of the time, it will give you a better spelling (it did for your word). If you just want to know what the word means, you can do put this into the query box: "define: fubar".

Kirby

Googling around, this page shows that there is something called "Firefox Ultrabar". I don't use Firefox (but I do use Mozilla). I'm not much of a plug-in head. However, assembling a dictionary.com HTTP request isn't significantly different, so presuambly, it should be trivial. Try putting these into google: "Firefox dictionary.com plugin". I'm sure the answer is there somewhere. I believe both of these links will be interesting, the second more then the first: Lots of plug ins and Dictionary specific plug ins

The other way, is just put the misspelled word into google. Most of the time, it will give you a better spelling (it did for your word). If you just want to know what the word means, you can do put this into the query box: "define: fubar".

Kirby

Everyone, it seems, wants a free lunch. To be online and yet use Firefox extensions or third party toolbars to block advertising content is to be a true parasite in the digital world. Would you go up to a young mother breastfeeding in a playpark and shunt the young one aside to get some valuable free nutrients at others expense? It is a metaphor for exactly how you are using the Internet.

Here are the facts. Serving pages costs money. Creating content costs money. People are utterly untrustworthy when it comes to free donation of cash, even for a resource they might use everyday. The reason why you enjoy the Internet free at the point of use (ignoring the initial outlay for equipment) ie. page serving, is because ADVERTISERS PAY GOOD MONEY TO SUPPORT IT. How would you like paying for everything you look at? I suspect you wouldn't like that in the least.

Your philosophy of ad blocking is morally barren. You are hitching a free ride from the companies you deride so much. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and when the behaviour rot you are incubating spreads to the general populace, when you have to start paying a flat fee per page because of your previous selfishness, not even then will you look back at your behaviour and repent, I suspect even then you will pule like a newborn divested of its favourite toy.

WE ARE LIVING IN THE GOLDEN AGE, AND YOU ARE TEARING IT DOWN WITH YOUR SELFISHNESS.

Blake Ross's implementation of it is located here: http://passwordmaker.mozdev.org/. It's a really good idea, and I think that every time you are asked for your password, you should type in your normal password (nothing fancy or whatever, no phrases but you can put 'em in if you like), and the program automatically changes it into a hash and the hash becomes your password. That way, you have a damn secure password and it's also easy to remember.

Haha this is great, look at the high scores!
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Even if IE implements everything that the basic Firefox installation has and then some, they still won't have the strong community of extension developers that Mozilla does. Will the next IE have anything like AdBlock, the web developer toolbar, or any of the countless little tweak extensions I like? Will I be able to easily change detailed settings like I can with about:config? I doubt it.

I opened that page up accidentally in Safari instead of Firefox, and man, now I remember why I installed Flashblock. Ow. Ow. OW OW OW. 3/4 of the page is flash advertisements!

Spit, spit, spit.

No, worse than that - I made the mistake of not only installing Autoform, but not adding Slashdot to the Autoload URLs ignore list.

Now my comment, which expressed annoyance with the concept of 'consciousness' as a fundamental unit of anything as well as bashing the idea that a conscious observer has to be present to 'collapse the wave function' (measurement operators don't require a human brain behind them), is lost to the four winds, overwritten by the last dang thing I wrote.

At least I have a chance to go back and redo it and apologize for the mess.

Thanks for pointing it out *shakes head* *sigh*.

It wouldn't be for karma - my karma's already excellent :)

As for Flash, I don't even have it installed, right now. The advertisements were driving me bonkers!

Quote:
Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to click to view the Flash content.

I guess if you don't use Firefox, or don't like installing extensions, this might not work for you, but I've found it to be very useful. Every once in a blue moon I want to be able to view flash content (some $#@E@!! sites REQUIRE it), but this way I'm not assaulted by flash-based popups and that #@#@^@!!! Amityville Horror trailer everywhere on the web.

they can do so by creating another, entirely separate Postscript-generating layer (but without having to worry about performance or interactivity or other non-print Linux related things).

My basis for the third party toolbars not being fully functional is pretty well summarized at http://googlebar.mozdev.org/pagerank.html, so you can clearly see that my basis is fact, not conspiracy theories. You can also find more factual information about their lack of platform support on their own FAQ, linked in this thread a few posts down.

As it is not evident by the facts, available on their own site, I find it hard to take hearsay about them bringing cross platform support to their applications into account. I will certainly reconsider if they post anything officially and/or actually come up with such applications, however.

And your platform argument comes once again to the reasoning behind making web pages cross-browser and cross-platform. Excluding users is not good business.

FWIW, the equivalent to user js in Firefox is Greasemonkey.