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I have no idea what you're talking about. I never see ads anymore what with the OSS champion's Mozilla and AdBlock

In this case, ignorance is bliss...

Install free, OS Adblock and you will not see any (well, almost) ads!

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

or even better: adblock. Not exactly the same functionality, but a very powerful ad blocker indeed.

On Mozilla, Multizilla provides a similar button next to the URL bar. (Plug: it's a great extension, almost like having a new browser.)

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In konqueror, there is a nice button to clear the current URL. On mozilla & firefox, install the diggler extension, which provides the same function.

Try FlashBlock, which will stop Flash animations from playing unless you click the Play button.

I have something like that on Moz:
http://diggler.mozdev.org/

Clicking the little X button clears the URL bar, while the dropdown button gives you a nice, easy way to navigate up directories.

If you use mozilla/firefox, another nice tip is to use the plug-in diggler, it adds a cancel button beside the browser url location field. You can then just press it to clean the field, instead of selecting and pressing del, this way the selection won't go to the clipboard.

it's called Diggler, and you can install it into Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox right from the install screen.

Either that, or you can just "apt-get install mozilla-diggler" , and restart your browser in any Debian-based distro.

Konqueror already came with the little delete button from the get go.

What annoys me the most is when copying/pasteing URL's. I'll highlight&copy a url somewhere then I go and paste it into firefox. Out of habbit I'll go and highlight the current URL and control+v what I assume I'm pasteing... and end up with the same URL that I started with.

Solutions (Mozdev.org)

I prefer Digger.

Also note that you can, within Firefox, drag a link or a selected URL text to the tab bar to open it. If you drag to an existing tab it will replace that tab, and on an empty area (or the X button, if the bar is full) of the tab bar it will open a new tab.

No, I'm thinking of Diggler.

"Diggler is a small but powerful add-on for Mozilla, Netscape and Firefox. It adds a button next to the location bar which can clear the location bar..."

Similar, but without the keystrokes.

Try installing diggler to get a button similar to Konqueror's "Clear Location Bar" button on the leftside of your location bar.

You would probably also want to turn on "focus follows mouse" if your window manager allows it. Then you can copy and paste without using the keyboard.

I think you're thinking of the Past and Go plugin. It works for both Firefox and Mozilla, and lets you copy and go to a URL in one step.

Do yourself a favor - delete all your plugins. Then get the ones you "need" over a 33k modem, you'll soon see which ones you really need.

Would "Most People" download flash from MM if that was the only way to get it?

Would anybody use Flashblock if what you boldy state is true?

AC: coz I don't think yr worth it (_*_)

Do yourself a favor - delete all your plugins. Then get the ones you "need" over a 33k modem, you'll soon see which ones you really need.

Would "Most People" download flash from MM if that was the only way to get it?

Would anybody use Flashblock if what you boldy state is true?

AC: coz I don't think yr worth it (_*_)

Moji

rikaixul, my own project which was functional a year ago but noone's touched in some time.
Jim Breen runs a really great list of online resources for Japanese, most of which are at least free-beer if not free-speech.
While you're on-line, there's the free-beer Rikai, which, like those mozilla plugins, should help you get through Japanese pages (try asahi.com or 2chan.net for a laugh)
Anyway, presumably the mozilla plugins would let one have a working solution on higher-end palmtop devices.

Moji

rikaixul, my own project which was functional a year ago but noone's touched in some time.
Jim Breen runs a really great list of online resources for Japanese, most of which are at least free-beer if not free-speech.
While you're on-line, there's the free-beer Rikai, which, like those mozilla plugins, should help you get through Japanese pages (try asahi.com or 2chan.net for a laugh)
Anyway, presumably the mozilla plugins would let one have a working solution on higher-end palmtop devices.

Then I recommend getting the book. As well as looking at the online o'rielly book.

Sadly, the IE skin for Mozilla isn't being very actively maintained anymore. If you could get something that looks at least passably like IE, you'd have a suprisingly large number of people now able to use Mozilla. One of the few positive uses for skinning, yet people normally just tend to make hideously multicolored stuff with bad UI design.

Try Adblock, it'll at least allow you to get rid off (or at least hide) flash/image/iframe ads if you want it too.

Now seems a good time to introduce flashblock. Very ironic, isn't it?

Will this break my Flashblock extention for Firefox, if I install it?

You can increase the number of lines that are scrolled at each 'click' of the scrollwheel by typing in the location textbox

about:config

which should display the configuration variables. Then seek the following variables: (you can use the filter tool for locating them faster)

mousewheel.withnokey.numlines
mousewheel.withno key.sysnumlines

Modify the value of numlines to something bigger than the default of 1 (to your mom's liking) and in order to make that modification effective, set sysnumlines to false.

This works fine at least in Slackware Linux with Mozilla 1.6.

There's also a Mozilla add-on project for advanced mouse wheeling that might be of interest to you.

You probably want to try mozex or the actual kitchen sink...

hey look features are features but a few are missing

I would like a IM client (IRC does not rock my world) a Jabber client would be good

jabber support

I would like a iCal clone... (in process)

Indeed it is :)

I would like OpenPGP intergrated (only 128bit to save the export legal stuff) just basic crypto would be great (make it easy to setup as well)

There's a gpg extension, will that do?

Enigmail works as a GnuPG frontend. Although it's not integrated, I've heard good things about it.

• prefer non-IE web browsers
• prefer non-Intel computers
• use operating systems even less mainstream than Linux
• use a low-graphics environment like a text console or a PDA
• object on principle to installation of proprietary software
• object on principle to violation of W3C standards
• block certain media types that are used primarily for advertising

Go to bugzilla.mozilla.org and search for BlackConnect to see where we are.

JRex lives at http://jrex.mozdev.org/

As for an IDE, there are some ongoing projects, like Vixen and XUL Maker.

Go to bugzilla.mozilla.org and search for BlackConnect to see where we are.

JRex lives at http://jrex.mozdev.org/

As for an IDE, there are some ongoing projects, like Vixen and XUL Maker.

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Surely you could get MozDev to be (one of) the top level Certificate Authority(s) though, seeing as it's already the main repository for plugins. Maybe XULPlanet and a few others too, along the same lines as the SSL cert. verification model. Establish some trusted bodies and give them the issuing responsibilities.

Get these bodies to issue a cert. to each project and provide a mechanism for signing code, then plug the above CA servers into Mozilla, Firefox, etc., write some checking code (displaying warnings for unsigned code, for example) then you're done :)
Not quite that easy in practice though, I guess?

• Why not just make a plugin that has an installer or a self-extract zip file or something of that nature?

I've only come across a couple of porn sites that try to install something using the XPI facility, but you get prompted to install it. It was amidst a rats' nest of other dialogs popping up (not "popup" windows, just dialogs asking me to install extensions to handle all kinds of exotic filetypes and JavaScript alert() boxes), so I almost missed it.

Have you tried Multizilla? It has exactly the option you describe, as well as an option to redirect popups to new tabs (on sites that you want to allow popups for, but still don't want new windows), and generally pretty good tab management. I've never used TBE, but I can't think of any potential tab-related features that aren't in Multizilla. It has a lot of other options too. Also not sure if it supports Firefox ... I use the full Mozilla suite...

;i don't know about you, but the first thing i do after i intstall firefox is install adblock (sorry osdn).

;like many slashdotters, i use more than one computer too, so i really like Torisugari's bookmarksync as it allows me to up/download my bookmarks via FTP.

;and as i'm not a fan of pop-up windows, i dig download manager tweak--though it may not qualify as the "schiznit," it is useful.

;as for the snoop, is anyone out there working on a xul version of the shizzolator?

;treehead

;i don't know about you, but the first thing i do after i intstall firefox is install adblock (sorry osdn).

;like many slashdotters, i use more than one computer too, so i really like Torisugari's bookmarksync as it allows me to up/download my bookmarks via FTP.

;and as i'm not a fan of pop-up windows, i dig download manager tweak--though it may not qualify as the "schiznit," it is useful.

;as for the snoop, is anyone out there working on a xul version of the shizzolator?

;treehead

I use it myself, and the Enigmail plugin works great once its configured. Unfortunately, making the Win32 port of GPG work with your keys is a bit of an ordeal, but it's mostly just the learning curve of GPG itself.

link for the lazy (and slashdotting).

You mean this one?

I don't understand. One exists. Did you not know that, or not like the way it is implemented?

Yes, but when you don't want Flash, this is wonderful. The flash ad shows up as a button that you have to click on instead of having something playing background music or talking to you in the background...

Good stuff.

...if an application opens a window, that window should identify the application responsible for it.

From http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#googleba r

Google Bar
by GoogleBar Team

From the plugin homepage

...While we are in no way affiliated with Google inc, our current release emulates all of the basic search functionality of the toolbar...

Yeah I heard that... hopefully they will make it easy to adblock. I am thinking something like having all ads come from http://ads.google.com or something along those lines.

1. It's faster

You neglected to mention what OS you're talking about, but since you mentioned installing Firefox on the machines you administer, I'm going to assume you're talking about Windows. What about Linux? Are there any objective tests on this subject out there?

3. It has a hugely useful hotlist menu
(file transfers, personal notes, dictionary,
and finally links to newest slashdot articles)

Personally, I want my browser to be just a browser, which is partly why I switched from the Mozilla suite to Firefox back when it was called Phoenix. I'd rather have features like those you mentioned avaliable as extensions or something so as to avoid the feature creep that plagues so many software projects.

4. Tabbed browsing is 10x better

In what sense? Have you tried installing the Tabbrowser Extensions for Firefox? (If you want to complain about having to install a separate extension, see my previous point.)

6. Ultra customizable

Firefox is pretty darn customizable, too, with all the extensions available and the about:config page (though I freely admit that about:config isn't the most user-friendly way to configure things).

Actually, the one thing I really liked about Opera back in the day was something you didn't mention: mouse gesture support. Firefox can do this via the Mouse Gestures extension, but they don't work right in Linux with the right mouse button because of some issue with X Windows or something. Even when I used Firefox (then Firebird) in Windows, the mouse gesture support wasn't as good as that in Opera: in particular, the system wasn't as responsive to mouse gestures as it was with Opera, and gestures didn't work in certain places, such as over UI components and certain web page elements, something I'm sure is due to the fact that mouse gestures are implemented as a plugin in Mozilla/Firefox as opposed to being built-in as they are in Opera.

The things I like more about Firefox, though, include the fact that it's open source (I am one of those people to whom that matters; if it doesn't matter to you, tough beans) and the plethora of available extensions, especially Adblock, which has done wonders for my browsing experience.

Mike

P.S. Has anyone else noticed that Slashdot automatically changes multiple consecutive blank lines in posts into a single blank line? That's kind of annoying if you ask me...

1. It's faster

You neglected to mention what OS you're talking about, but since you mentioned installing Firefox on the machines you administer, I'm going to assume you're talking about Windows. What about Linux? Are there any objective tests on this subject out there?

3. It has a hugely useful hotlist menu
(file transfers, personal notes, dictionary,
and finally links to newest slashdot articles)

Personally, I want my browser to be just a browser, which is partly why I switched from the Mozilla suite to Firefox back when it was called Phoenix. I'd rather have features like those you mentioned avaliable as extensions or something so as to avoid the feature creep that plagues so many software projects.

4. Tabbed browsing is 10x better

In what sense? Have you tried installing the Tabbrowser Extensions for Firefox? (If you want to complain about having to install a separate extension, see my previous point.)

6. Ultra customizable

Firefox is pretty darn customizable, too, with all the extensions available and the about:config page (though I freely admit that about:config isn't the most user-friendly way to configure things).

Actually, the one thing I really liked about Opera back in the day was something you didn't mention: mouse gesture support. Firefox can do this via the Mouse Gestures extension, but they don't work right in Linux with the right mouse button because of some issue with X Windows or something. Even when I used Firefox (then Firebird) in Windows, the mouse gesture support wasn't as good as that in Opera: in particular, the system wasn't as responsive to mouse gestures as it was with Opera, and gestures didn't work in certain places, such as over UI components and certain web page elements, something I'm sure is due to the fact that mouse gestures are implemented as a plugin in Mozilla/Firefox as opposed to being built-in as they are in Opera.

The things I like more about Firefox, though, include the fact that it's open source (I am one of those people to whom that matters; if it doesn't matter to you, tough beans) and the plethora of available extensions, especially Adblock, which has done wonders for my browsing experience.

Mike

P.S. Has anyone else noticed that Slashdot automatically changes multiple consecutive blank lines in posts into a single blank line? That's kind of annoying if you ask me...