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Now called ForecastFox.

This project is now called ForecastFox and can be found at http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/

Actually Forecastfox (WeatherFox's current name) uses the The Weather Channel (i.e. weather.com) as its source.) It is however very cool http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/

As to the story, I don't see what the big deal with providing internet access is when there is already a national weather radio service broadcasting this. I mean most people use weatherbug even though it is scary ad bedecked, slow, and when better options exist. Yet they do. So most likely accuweather shouldn't worry.

I recommend Filterset.G for use with Adblock. I find it eliminates most advertising.

dave, try this

( the IE View Firefox extension )

Actually, it's slightly more complicated.

Document stylesheet trumps user. Unless the user specifies the "!important" modifier, in which case user trumps document. I find this very useful, and use it to override a lot of b0rkeness on the Web.

Also, in some browsers (Galeon among them) it's possible to create a set of stylesheets which can be applied to any arbitrary page, only when specified. I actually use this to tweak the "light" Slash code to format it more like the default. Fun thing is you can apply it to default websites. Screenshots linked from http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlug/2005-Januar y/048897.html

This and other userContent.css tricks at UserContentCSS TWikIWeThey page.

There's also the greasemonkey Firefox extension, which extends this concept somewhat.

Do you mean this extension?

ieview

That extension adds a right-click option for viewing a page in IE.

Probably they'd want to look at that extension, along with something like the slashfix extension. Slashfix has code that causes Firefox to do something when it encounters a certain URL (slashdot.org)...You'd want something like the code in that to check against your list, then use code in ieview to pop open an IE window when one of those pages are detected.

Or something like that.

http://jslib.mozdev.org/

If there is another hole in firefox that you could use to run javascript with sufficient privliges(the same privs that you have when you run a chrome:// url) and you could delete files from javascript.

Firefox/Mozilla + Enigmail = PGP encrypted mails.

Ads? What ads?

If you're a firefox user, there's an extension called "forecastfox" (formerly weatherfox), here.

Alt to weatherbug - kinda...
http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/ (opens in new window)

Weather plug in for Firefox, shows forecast/temp in lower right of status bar. Highly configurable.

Try the prefbar. It lets you hit F8 to bring up the prefbar, click a flash checkbox, and F8 again to hide prefbar.

prefbar has always been the first extension I install in mozilla. (though now you can install it to your profile so you don't have to reinstall at every moz upgrade)

Weatherfox/ForecastFox works pretty well as an extension in Firefox.

I don't know how it handles css, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's also included in the archive.

Make it easier to disable flash temporarily so I can turn it off on those sites that abuse it.

Preferences Toolbar has a checkbox for disabling Flash, however it does this by renaming the plug-in files (something of a kludge).

Make a better interface for managing plug-ins and extensions. Let me enable/disable them and check for updates for them.

I've wanted this for a long time (see my sig).

Improve the download manager. Show the date/time something was downloaded, and let me sort by that field.

Yeah, they should also disable the ability to sort downloads by "Time Left" and "Speed" because this seems to just randomize the completed downloads.

My only addition to your list would be the ability to customize how Mozilla handles EMBED tags with particular emphasis on calls to Windows Media Player. Just because I can't remove WMP (without also disabling the MS codecs) doesn't mean I want it automatically loading when I visit web sites.

See sage for an RSS reader built-in to mozilla (well, via extension). I prefer it 1000% over the integrated "live bookmarks" (dumb dumb dumb). Sage allows you to bookmark an RSS feed (or now, one of those goofy "Live Bookmarks" in a particular folder, then it does all the normal RSS stuff on top of that.

Get a mac and you'll have an option for PDF printing included by default. ;^)

Ok, two down... whose next. :^)

--Robert

See flashblock for a similar solution to problem #2.

--Robert

whoops sorry http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info.php/sess ionsaver
take away the '/' at the end of the url.

Firefox crashses occasionally on me, for saving openend tabs check out the session saver plugin: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info.php/sess ionsaver/

What mozilla and firefox need is native support for the customization provided by the recently stagnant mozex extension.

Any user should be able to use their $EDITOR for any text input for example.

And, an RSS reader equivalent to FeedDemon.

Check out Mozile. Inline rich HTML editing of parts of pages done in Gecko.

A lot of posts here is missing the point, which is that people who uses Dreamweaver wants WYSIWYG editing, not lots of textfields, possibly even with some kind of made up markup. If you have mainly unchanging static content, there isn't much reason to have dynamics on the serverside.

In fact, I would want to have WYSIWYG for dynamic content too, if possible. And it looks like it may be on its way, check out Mozile - preferably in a Gecko browser so you can try it out live. It looks a bit dead when you look at the page, but view the mailing list archives for very recent updates, including installable extensions.

For you who are too lazy to click, Mozile is a system for rich editing of HTML directly in pages, what is extra special is that you define what areas are editable, and then you can post back just that part or the whole page, via POST, WebDav or a few other methods. And it can be used just by including a few javascripts in your page, or it can be installed as an extension in Firefox/Mozilla. A perfect match for editing any online content with direct results, be it blogs, news or docs or whatever.

Check it out, this could well be the next great thing, and if you like the Gecko family, also a great way to promote your favourite. If you are so inclined, I'm sure the project also could use more people testing and developing.

I'm impressed, and I'm most likely gonna use this or parts of it myself. What would be really interesting would be to extend the WebDav functionality to talk to subversion, sadly that protocol is really complicated (even though built upon Dav) and not really well documented (as in easy to read, the facts are there). But it should be possible to pull off with ethereal, or if any of the developers would want to lend a helping hand towards such an effort.

I didn't see any ads.

And it feels so good.

You can legally download that book from mozdevm as it's published under the OPL, though of course if you find it useful, buying it from O'Reilly is preferred.

I can't believe noone has said this:

use the source, luke!

(links blatantly stolen from the mozilla amazon link page)

But seriously, disassemble other peoples code is the best way to learn. See how they do thing. Javascript is easy enough to understand and there are millions of tutorials on the subject alone, but if you want to see how it interacts with XUL applications this is your best bet. And hey, all those applications are zero install and can run in the browser, how cool isn't that!? =P

I can't believe noone has said this:

use the source, luke!

(links blatantly stolen from the mozilla amazon link page)

But seriously, disassemble other peoples code is the best way to learn. See how they do thing. Javascript is easy enough to understand and there are millions of tutorials on the subject alone, but if you want to see how it interacts with XUL applications this is your best bet. And hey, all those applications are zero install and can run in the browser, how cool isn't that!? =P

I agree completely with you in regard to RDF and the whole idea of using Mozilla's data-management components. Mozilla/XUL should be looked at as a front-end only. Whatever method you use to get and store the data, simple javascript is the answer to manipulating it in memory. RDF, and all other XML-oriented data management techniques are incredibly overcomplicated and offer no special benefit, other than being able to say you are using "XML datasources".

For web-based apps, XMLHttpRequest is a good way to handle remote datasources, although it is even possible to work easily with sockets, if you install JSLib.

In my current Mozilla-based project, I am using JSlib sockets to talk directly to PHP (CLI mode) daemons, in order to get access to data. I have found this method to be extremely fast, and allows me the benefit of all PHP's database modules, as well as PHP's mature back-end system interaction capabilities.

Does this help?

XPrint

If you're just starting out with XUl, you may want to brish up on your JavaScript first. Although XUL itself is a rather straightforward markup language (albeit with many, many quirks), in order to make your app actually do anything, you'll need to write some JavaScript to control it. There are many, many Javascript resources out there, and I also recommend JavaScript: The Definitive Guide from O'Reilly.

Once you have that down, here are a few XUL sites I recommend:

Creating Application with Mozilla - Online version of O'Reilly's book. Great resource for beginners to follow through, but some of the examples no longer work due to changes in the APIs since the books release.

XUL Planet - An excellene resource for XUL developers of any level. This site contains a great tutorial for getting started and becoming familiar with the environment, as well as a definitive reference guide for XUL and XPCOM objects and functions.

XUL Planet Forum - This forum is also housed at the XUL Planet website, but it deserves separate mention. This is the only forum/newsgroup/list I've been able to find that's still active and populated with friendly and helpful souls. I've received helped there several times on problems I'd been working on for weeks or months.

There are also a few XUL-related newsgroups on mozilla's usenet server (eg, news://news.mozilla.org:563/netscape.public.dev.xu l), though not too many people use those groups anymore.

There's also Mozilla official XUL Programmer's Reference. This is a great reference resource, but it's not geared for beginners.

And finally, the mother of all example sites: http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul If you can't figure out how something work, this most likely has a working example.

Good luck!

As an alternative to deli.cio.us spurl is a good service for online bookmarking.

Actually I found spurl's interface best of its kind, and it has really nice browser workarounds to get you ready to spurl easy and fast. Even a spurl firefox extension is out. Spurl has a plugin for IE as well.

The delicious firefox plugin from http://delicious.mozdev.org/ is a little better than this because you can right click on a page and see who else has bookmarked without going to the page. It also gives tons of other nice feature, such as caching of you del.icio.us bookmarks for a sidebar. It's really nice.

Link for the lazy: http://ieview.mozdev.org

Ohh! What's this? A Firefox View for IE? Wonderful! (Same thing as IE View, but installs through Firefox into IE, allowing to view a page in Firefox that's loaded in IE)

Link for the lazy: http://www.iosart.com/firefox/firefoxview/

I use prefbar with Firefox, and it allows me to put a little "Proxies" checkbox on the toolbar. Works great with tor.

For anyone who doesn't already know, from the adblock webpage:

Adblock is a content filtering plug-in for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers. It is both more robust and more precise than the built-in image blocker.

Adblock allows the user to specify filters, which remove unwanted content based on the source-address. If this sounds complicated, don't worry: it's not.

Just add a few filters. Every time a webpage loads, Adblock will intercept and disable the elements matching your filters. See?- nothing to it.

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Depending if he uses dial-up, this could make a huge different in performance as it doesn't take the time to load/render the banner ads/flash/etc.

body#gmail-google-com span#ds_spam { display: none !important; }

body#gmail-google-com span#ds_spam { display: none !important; }

Too right! You can get some of the Multizilla functionality in Firefox by cobbling together extensions, but it still doesn't do everything and it's less convenient.

That said, I really, really wish Mozilla supported something like Sage for RSS browsing. That would make it perfect.

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Prefbar has an "animations" item. Uncheck to disable gif animation.

Tab Browser Extension supports many of the features of Multizilla, and Googlebar seems pretty close to Googlebox.

What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?

I still use Mozilla because of Multizilla and Googlebox, which do not yet run on Firefox.

Multizilla is a tabbed browsing extension that allows you to do things like duplicate tabs, gather tabs from other instances of Mozilla, set permissions on a tab-by-tab basis (e.g, turn off image loading, turn off javascript, turn-off plug-ins, etc.), force auto-reload of a tab on a timed basis, reopen tabs that you closed, and more.

Googlebox, it a toolbar for searching and it's very handy. I won't waste space describing it when it's done much better at the provided link.

I don't use Thunderbird or Mozilla as my e-mail client as I prefer Outlook 2003 (not Express). Please, no anti-Microsoft comments. I tried lots of clients, including Thunderbird, Mozilla, The Bat, Eudora, Poco Mail, and Pegasus Mail, before deciding on Outlook 2003. Whether you like MS or not, it's a damned good client (though not without flaws).

What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?

Multizilla

And for every other site, *cough*slashdot*cough* there's URI ID.

and I hate the small size of the box I'm given to enter my search terms.

Can't help you there.

Resize Search Box Extension

If you want to minimize Firefox and Thunderbird to the tray, just install this extension: http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/.

There is an extension that will net you resize the search bar...

Have you ever tried Googlebar?

you can turn off the firefox search box, and use googlebar instead. If you customize the firefox interface it can be as streamlined and clean as you need it.

IMO firefox + googlebar = browsing nirvana

There's a better way. There is a FireFox extension that adds an "Open Link Target in IE" to the context (right-click) menu.

It's called "ieview". Works great. Get it here: http://ieview.mozdev.org/. Problem solved.