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Just use the user agent switcher. I've only found one page that I use regularly that actually doesn't work in firefox (www.weightwatchers.com). Everything else has been stupid browser checks and using the switcher lets me into the site, although it increases the statistics of IE (but the Netscape 4.7 user agent works most of the time)

If their biggest gripe is that they don't like how it looks, install another theme. Orbit Retro is my personal favourite, but if they insist on acting like children, maybe Toy Factory would be more appropriate.

I think you're looking for this.

Now stop complaining.

Slashdot has ads? Wired has ads? What ads? I don't see any.

Slashdot has ads? Wired has ads? What ads? I don't see any.

Slashdot has ads? Wired has ads? What ads? I don't see any.

Just use Gmail Notifier 0.3.3 for Mozilla Firefox.

See also WebMailCompose Makes mailto: links load your webmail's compose page and adds a Compose link to the context menu. Currently supports GMail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Netscape/OperaMail/Mail.com/Ho rde/Squirrel and 1 user customizable entry. (Firefox/Mozilla Suite/Netscape 7.x)

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Prefbar has it too.

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ Hope it helps! Sorry I was way off on the name. :)

Flashblock extension for Firefox turns any flash animation into a button you have to click to view.

Already is an extension called URI ID, although it's not quite as nice as a built-in version as it requires a screen redraw.

It's FlashBlock now.

It still works in 9.x (I've had it in 9,1 and 9.3). Just install it from the extension room, and note that there's a post down the bottom of that page that tells you how to remove it (which is still currently problematic).

It is possible to do all of that in Firefox and then some... I simply prefer Firefox to Opera. I've used both. I last tried Opera a few months back.

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/google.html

Don't know if this helps at all, but since it is basically Mozilla underneath, you may be able to add the Mycroft search 'plugins'. They work great in Firefox, and it mentions Netscape 7 (although not 7.2) on the front page.

I can only agree with you that advertising help spread the word about a product/service. Continually hearing about a product also work, except for me. That's milking it. I'm 25 years old and already tired of the biased world of advertisement. I use Adblock when surfing the Internet, I change channel or mute the sound while commercials are on TV, I change channel when listening to radio, etc. I have no problem with others being subjected to ads, it's their choice like I've made mine.
If I need a product/service only then do I search the Internet for it or ask friends or family. Not the other way around, i.e. have a company telling me that I need this or that.

No, I don't see banners because I use Adblock. Other people that don't know Firefox or Mozilla will learn that there's an alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer and that is a good thing about advertising. But constantly being subjected to irrelevant or repetitive ads is just plain annoying.
I learned about Firefox by searching the Internet for an alternative browser and asked questions on forums. Mozilla was recommended to me and later on Firefox was born. So that would be word-of-mouth advertising which is fine by me because that's what I wanted, not the other way around, i.e. being stuffed with irrelevant ads.

Who will win, in a fight to the death vs. Adblock

Invaluable in my opinion, to have a fully functional mouse-driven interface. I want to read and article using only one input device while adequately operating the browser. This is not possible with a one-button mouse. Period.

The MAB is a tool for searching the Amazon catalogs and browsing their products. It can be used as very impressive Online Application from Mozilla-like browsers

I saw an online Minesweeper replacement somewhere. Only worked with Mozilla, though.

That'll be Xulmine, available from games.mozdev.org.

Might not be practical for this particular problem, but I recommend the WML browser extension for the occasional viewing of WML pages in Firefox.

It's not perfect, but useful for quickly testing WML pages you're coding (it gets old real quick testing solely on a phone over GPRS..).

You might try Flashblock for Mozilla/Netscape7/Firefox. I love it.

Thanks a ton, this is what I was looking for. Link is here if anyone cares.

Get it here and PGP/GPG all your messages, at the very least start signing them.

I previously had Mozilla Firebird 0.7 installed on Windows 2000. I've tried to migrate to Firefox befoew, but certain things (like Sessionsaver sessions and the theme) didn't work/look proper[ly].

For those that don't know, Sessionsaver can save tab /window sessions so that they come back up after closing and re-opening the program. It's really nice when you have 15 tabs that you have the way you like them and accidently close the window. Qute is the Firebird theme and the most popular on the themes site.

Previously, all of my settings for Firebird were kept in C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Phoenix\ and there was a file in \Mozilla\ called pluginreg.dat.

I have always downloaded the .zip files and put them where I want them, so if you install using an installer, YMMV.

Here's how I got my settings back with the Firebird theme and all of my tabs back open. There's no real haX0ring involved here, but in the case that any one wants to do this, this is what worked for me. (Gripes to follow.)

Download Firefix 0.9.3
I downloaded and unpacked the Firefox zip file for Windows (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/0.9.3/Firefox-win32-0.9.3.zip).

Load Browser, Migrate Settings
Then, I loaded the browser and it prompted me as to whether or not I wanted my old settings migrated. I did, and selected the default options. The browser loaded and my homepage and network settings were there (YES!).

Download and Install Qute
Now, I liked the way Firebird looked and the way my tabs were saved by the Sessionsaver 0.2d extension. So, I went to the Themes manager and clicked Get More Themes. I downloaded and installed Qute. Then, in the Themes manager, I selected the Qute theme and clicked the Use Theme button. It didn't show up in my browser window right away, but I figured "maybe it needs me to shutdown and restart." So, I wasn't too worried.

Download and Install Sessionsaver 0.2d
Then, I googled for "sessionsaver", and got lucky. I installed the Sessionsaver extension. In the Extensions manager, it asked me if it wanted me to install it to my user preferences folder. It suggested that this way, it wouldn't have to be reinstalled when I upgrade the browser. I know that's not true, but I said yes, anyway. I loaded up an extra tab and a window to see if it would load them back up the next time.

Restart Firefox
Much to my surprise (and excitement), Firefox didn't open back up with my test windows and tabs, but my old Firebird session!

I went through this process again (making sure to remove my \Mozilla\Firefox folder and any added files and the program folder made when I unpacked the zip file), just to make sure I wasn't crazy.

Now, for the things that annoy me:

1) The Qute theme isn't EXACTLY like it was in Firebird. The buttos are shinier or something. I may write to the designer or search around for an older version if I can, but I'm going to live with it for now.

2) The Extentions, Themes, and Downloads windows suck up tons of CPU time when I move my mouse cursor between the panes and in and out of the windows. WTF?

3) The Download manager. I personally preferred the old progress windows from Firebird. I know there's an extension to allow me to use external programs for downloads, but I really did like those little windows. At least give me the choice of using the manager or the windows. The one function of this that I do like is t

See its home page.

Bugmenot plugin for Mozilla - http://bugmenot.mozdev.org/

For the lazy: BugMeNot Extension for Mozilla based browsers.

BugMeNot is not nearly as good without it.

If your particular distribution doesn't include solitaire to your liking, load up a XUL-capable browser (aka Mozilla, Firefox, etc.), and go to games.mozdev.org, scroll down to "Cards", and click play online. It will come up defaulting to "simple solitaire", which looks and plays very much like its Windows counterpart. I am addicted to Xulmine, myself.

Happy 5000th post from me too. I hope to see many more. This is from the stalker without a Slashdot account.

As luck would have it, I have am enjoying Firefox because of its many extensions. My favorite one that I find useful for reading your posts is a right click menu for looking up words extension such as:

germane
terminus
subterfuge
vehemently
exude
Q.E.D.: quod erat demonstrandum
bungalow
daft
obverse
innuendo
Socratic
a posteriori
Dona Nobis Pacem
anecdotal

Yes, I have been keeping track of words that you have used which I needed a dictionary for. It probably shows my lack of reading, but that comes from spending too much time in front of a computer working with software. Also, it earns my title of stalker. :-')

I like using AdBlock with the setting to just hide the ads instead of not download them at all activated. This doesn't really hurt anyone (I don't usually look at the ads anyway, and refuse to click it even if it is tempting and catching my eye, so the ad companies don't really lose money, and the site still gets their view).

I should mention there's a firefox extension that blocks ads based on regular expressions. Yet another reason to drop IE.

I agree, adblock is very useful.

This comes close

Ad-Block

You might be interested in the mozex extension to Mozilla and Firebird which lets you use a real editor for editing textareas.

What ad??

There's really not much to it:

• All tags are lowercase, which is easier to type anyway
• All attributes have to be "quoted" for sanity
• All tags have to be terminated, like this lists </li> which makes the browsers job of rendering much easier since it doesn't have to play the guessing game. This is especially handy on lowend devices like PDAs.
• All the old bandwidth-wasting presentation elements (like <FONT>) are now CSS presentation ATTRIBUTES of any element by using id= class= and style=

Firefox's WebDeveloper extension makes XHTML/CSS validation (among other funcs) so easy that there's no excuse to be lazy about it.

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Mozex allows you to edit the text area! I've had it for a year and did not realize that.

Load it. Set the editor With Full Path. Right click -> Mozex-> Edit Text Area

You must click back in the area after saving it.

I am writing this is gvim!

Pop-ups and pop-unders can be easily cured by Mozilla or other popup blockers without having to give up javascript. Java can be turned on and off easily via a preference pane.

But what about Flash? For the users who hate 90% of Flash content (ads) but are very interested in 10% of it (for example, New York Times multimedia presentations), there is no easy solution. No preference pane that allows you to turn it on and off quickly. Luckily the Mozilla's flashblock can take care of this problem, but IE users are stuck with tons of undesired content.

This is Slashdot, where people are not smart enough to use a simple search engine. Here is a link for the average Slashdot user.

if you use firefox I would recomend using a firefox extension called sage http://sage.mozdev.org/ to view RSS feeds.

Windows

On Windows, Mozilla can be used with Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE). It can not be used with the Microsoft Java VM, as that can only be used with Internet Explorer. Also, versions of Sun's JRE older than 1.3.0_01 will not work.

It is possible to install JRE 1.4.2_05 from within Mozilla, using XPInstall technology. This is by far the easiest way to install Java. If you can not use XPInstall, you can download the JRE 1.4.2_05 full installer and use that instead.

Mozilla's handling of XPI files is changing. For more details, see the XPInstall Changes FAQ.

On some systems, JRE 1.4.2 does not work. In this case, you can use JRE 1.4.1_07 until the issue you are having is resolved.

If you are using a zipped build of Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox, you need to add this registry entry. Some users report requiring it even if they have used the Mozilla Firefox installer, so try it first if you have problems with JRE 1.4.2 or later.

There is actually an extension for Firefox and Mozilla to put it into a kiosk mode under any platform. XPI's are stupidly easy to install and manage. There is also Kiosk Project, which is working on a kiosk setup for linux that involves the browser and twm.

I use BugMeNot via the FireFox plug-in to save registering myself.

pagerankstatus.mozdev.org

http://pagerankstatus.mozdev.org/ Google Pagerank status: Displays the Google Pagerank in your browser's status bar.