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What, you mean like Mozilla mouse gestures (which supports 44, at last count, of Mozilla's navigation, navigation, zoom and control functions)?

In order to complete a normal sized program, you would eventually have to be fluent in XML, JavaScript, CSS, RDF, DTD, DOM, XPCOM, XPConnect, JSLib, and other technologies.

I'd far prefer to use a popular GUI toolkit and a binding for a scripting language instead. :-P

Sounds fair to me. Unlike the text ones, they're blockable, too, for those who aren't interested.

Adblock doesn't have any problems blocking the IFRAMEs that contain text ads.

Now, if there were a trick to blocking banner ads whose URLs refer to the same server as the site's actual graphic content...

AdBlock not only blocks images, but also iFrames. iFrames are used on other people's websites to display Google's adsense text adverts. I assume that this will also show the image based adverts.

You can block the whole iFrame and you can use wildcards so you can do stuff like:
block: *.doubleclick.net/*

Save the following in a text file:

[Adblock]
googlesyndication
us.yimg.com/a/
/\/b uy_assets\//
/[\W\d_](top|bottom|left|right|)?ban ner(s|id=|\d|_)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d](double|fast)click[ \W\d]/
/[\W\d]click(stream|thrutraffic|thru|xchan ge)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d]value(stream|xchange|click)[\W\ d]/
/[\W\d]dime(xchange|click)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d](on lineads?|ad(banner|click|-?flow|frame|ima?g(es?)?| _id|js|log|serv(er|e)?|stream|_string|s|trix|type| vertisements?|v|vert|xchange)?)[\W\d]/
/(hot|spy) log/
/[\W_](b(an|nr)s?|jump|redir(ect|s)?|stat)[\ W_]/
/\W(cy|r)?c(ou)?nt(er|ed)?\W/
/p(artner|ing \.cgi|romotion)/
reklama
/sp(onsor|ymagic)/
/to p(100|cto)/

Import the file into your AdBlock: Tools -> AdBlock -> Preferences -> AdBlock Options -> Import Filters

Blocks most annoying ads. The power of regular expressions!

After reading this post, I searched for a couple of Firefox plugins, one of which is called Adblock. It is extremely useful. Why isn't this plugin integrated into the default install of Firefox? It should be a base feature of any real web browser.

Adblock is extremely convenient to use. Just click on the Adblock button on the status bar and a window pops up allowing you to select image URLs within the current page to block, allowing wildcards. As you scroll through images, it highlights the image you've selected on the webpage for convenience.

Actually, there are Minesweeper and Solitaire clones for Mozilla, as well as plenty other games.

Actually, there are Minesweeper and Solitaire clones for Mozilla, as well as plenty other games.

Actually, there are Minesweeper and Solitaire clones for Mozilla, as well as plenty other games.

Nope. Nothing to see here, nothing at all. Seriously RIA's is were the next battle is going to be. Look through those links and go WoW! The Laszlo systems one even has a free download if you want to try at home. That's why it's important that XUL and related technologies get up to speed (including SVG!). Luxor, might even work out. Here's the two, books, needed to understand XUL.

I agree, AdBlock is a godsend. Someone has come up with flash ads that don't popup the AdBlock tab, but I can still find them when I do the 'list all blockable elements'. I also love that it'll take out iFrames buried in other iFrames.

Mozilla AdBlock may also be found at adblock.mozdev.org

But, if you want activeX for firefox (god only knows why) try this

For one thing it keeps me from viewing a lot of junky web content I'd prefer to just avoid.

So what happens when you come to a page with Flash in it?

When I used Mozilla on Linux, it would open a pair of "You need to download Macromedia Flash" windows for each plugin on a page (which could be multiple). Or did you add this?

No, I think the problem is that he's not compacting his folders. All downloaded emails are stored in a single text file. (I believe this is true of all email clients, not just TB, though the formatting of the file varies.) When you hit delete, TB adds a note to ignore the message, but it stays in the text file until you compact folders.

The Offline extension (which is now a standard option in the Windows installer) has a feature for automatically compacting folders when they exceed a certain size.

clicky for newbs

4 words: Flash click to view

Mozilla/Netscape/Pheeonix/Firebird/Firefox all use the same plugins. Exploder used to support them as well.

Firefox is the biggest XUL demo you can get, aside from Mozilla Seamonkey Suite, which I'm not entire ly sure whether or not is completely XUL based...

In any case, standalone XUL is unlikely, because it is built on Gecko for use with Gecko-embedding browsers and applications. XAML will be no different, it will be built into Windows for use by Windows applications.

But if you want to learn about XUL: XUL on Mozilla.org
XUL 1.0 specification
XULPlanet, a big non-Mozilla XUL resource (See also XULPlanet at mozdev.org for the time being)
Joy of XUL -- an overview of XUL.

The probable reason why XUL doesn't recieve the same hype as XAML? XUL is just a solution designed for a problem. Whereas, XAML is a solution looking for a problem -- it is just one of the bells and whistles to make Longhorn attractive.

I was looking for a XUL RAD tool myself the other day and came across XULMAKER
Havent tried it yet, dont know whether its anywhere near mature or not.

Try installing AdBlock for Mozilla. Its a great way to get rid of the rest of the advertising crap on the web. Granted, there are those that question the morallity of doing so, but then we each have to make those decisions on our own.

Try tabbrowser extensions. It does just what you ask for, at least in Firefox (didn't try it in mozilla)

One thing I learned (before adblock fixed everything) is that you should make sure that you have a webserver running on 127.0.0.1 that returns a blank page when it can't find the page (the 404 page), as this allows blank whitespace in place of 404 not found errors. It also speeds up browsing, too.

Try this working link.

Free Popup Blocker:
http://www.mozilla.org/
http://toolbar.google.com (If you use IE)

Replacement HOSTS file:
http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

Tiny HTTP Server to respond to all those HOSTS entries:
http://www.pyrenean.com/edexter.php

Flash Remover:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash/ts/flash7 /uninstall_flash_player.exe (Uninstaller)
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ (for Mozilla)

The only thing they put a quantitive amount on was the codeweavers thing.

Let me get this straight: you are complaining that you don't have a monetary value for the other things? Why is that important?

It doesn't say how many changes they have contributed to Mozilla or how much that "kids" theme cost. There is nothing "substantial" about any of that.

They are paying Daniel Glazman to work full-time on NVU, and all his work goes straight back into the Mozilla codebase. I suggest you look into how much work he's already done for Mozilla to gauge how valuable this is.

Why does it matter how much things like the kids theme costs anyway? Surely the value it brings to the open-source projects is the thing to look at? The open-source projects in question are happy to recieve such contributions. For instance:

Lindows, Inc. uses Mozilla in their Linspire distribution and invests substantially (through outsourcing to Mozdev Group Inc., other Mozilla consultants and through their own development efforts) to see the continued advancement of Mozilla, particularly in regards to usability.

That's straight from mozdev.org.

...most of these are already installed for me in the standard installs of the various distros I try, but I consider these ten pretty crucial:

1. Mozilla
2. OpenOffice.org
3. Straw (RSS Aggregator)
4. Thunderbird (w/ Enigmail)
5. Evolution (which may soon be replaced by the amazing Mozilla Calendar)
6. Gaim
7. Gimp
8. XCDRoast
9. xmms
10. Xine/gXine

but I occassionally close the whole window when I just meant to close the open tab because of IE habits. Anyone know of a quick fix to prevent that or a way to get back my browser session after closing the browser?

Cut your fingers or install the Multizilla plugin and in the advanced options set overwrite current session on exit, whatever suits you better.

Anyone who picks this color scheme for a web site should not be writing GUIs let alone GUI builders. Vixen looks like vaporware at present.

Please let the words drip from your keyboard and tell me how the functionality of Magpie can be used for something other than pornography??

So now it's not only hardcore or violent pornography, but more tame forms as well? How can someone possibly rebut your claims unless you're clear as to what they are? In any case...

Not too long ago, a friend had me download all the posts in the history of his site, which were all numbered sequencially. Magpie sounds like something that might have helped, though I was not aware of it at the time.

I've also used wget with scripting to grab sequencially numbered archives of comics. Again, sounds precisely where Magpie would help.

I have to admit that it taxes my memory and imagination to come up with moral and legal uses for it, but they do exist. Furthermore, it's not advertised as a tool for gathering smut. If you don't already have some minimal familiarity with how porn sites operate, you would never imagine the connection. So the pure souls who neither go looking for porn nor speak to those who do would not share your view.

So no, Magpie is not useful only in that context, and as such does not condone such behavior.

Next/Prev image... well, I can't begin to defend that one. "Ad hoc" imagine galleries aren't terribly useful. HOWEVER, there is still no mention of pornography. Any connection must come from the reader.

But if someone were to try to connect the Mozilla project to some imagined intent from these extensions, I would point them towards the mozdev FAQ, specifically the questions on who can start a new project, etc.

mozdev is not mozilla, and the mozilla developers have no moral connection to extensions listed there. The developers would rather get work done than monitor the perifery or manage a set of approved extensions. So I hope you address any concerns you still have towards mozdev and not mozilla. I don't think you really have a legitimate complaint though, as there is nothing explicit there. Anyone trying to seriously claim that mozilla.org condones porn would be laughed at. (as you can see)

Lastly, pornography is in the world and "this nation" is part of that world. You can't convince everyone to be moral and upright. Yell and scream too much and you become a crackpot, at which point even fewer will listen to you.

2 Cor 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord

• XUL Maker
• Vixen

How often do you email an EDITABLE document to someone, have them edit it, then send it back?

My job is to negotiate contracts, so I do this 20 or 30 times a day... and based on the last 3 or 4 jobs I've had, this kind of behavior is the rule, rather than the exception. I've never sent anyone a PDF in the context of my job. What do you do for a living? (are you hiring :-?)

In fact, I refuse to do business with people who force me to look at their docs in PDF format. I'll often angrily close the tab when I click a link and Acrobat starts to load.

HTML, people. If you need to present something, and you need to protect your secrets so carefully that an NDA isn't good enough, or you spent so much hard work on whatever your stupid document is that don't want me to be able to make edits or to have cut/paste access to the content, send me a goddamn hard copy. If you want to communicate efficently, either post your content in HTML or send me a .doc or .txt or .swx or whatever the OO.o format is.

(yes, I hate all-flash sites too-- go to hell, BMW. GO TO HELL! Thank goodness for the flashblock xpi for mozilla- it makes the web usable again).

I've used Firefox before and think its a great browser, but I have a number of worries about it. I mentioned a few of them before. I've looked into it a bit more now, and the more I discovered the more worried I've become. Basically Firefox has the capacity to give very bad press to many more Open Source products, to tar them with it's dirty brush, should certain features of the browser be publicised widely.

That's a contentious point, so before you moderate me as flamebait please give me an opportunity to explain. My previous post on this subject resulted me in getting terrible karma because people unfairly called me a troll. If it is trolling to point out potential problems that we should all be wary of then, yes, I am a troll.

A brief summary of my previous post would be to say that certain features of Firefox make it too easy to misuse the web browser to surf for pornography. It was rightly pointed out at that time by respondants that the power to misuse came from the individual, not the computer program. But I've since discovered that actual Mozilla supported extensions such as this one, "Magpie" or this one "Prev/Next image", which are actually given web space and bookmarked by default by the Mozilla developers themselves can only be useful in the context of searching for and downloading hardcore or violent pornography . For the Mozilla developers to support these two extensions is similar to them offering a "Porno" button theme. If they would not support a sexually explicit theme on their homepage, why are they giving space to extensions which allow you to easily fetch pornographic pictures? Let me reiterate: these extensions are only useful in that context. What is the difference? Does this not give indirect approval of these activities? I think it does.

Pornography is destroying the Internet and the moral health of this nation. By offering openly these functionalities, by publicising and supporting them as mainstream, the Mozilla Developers are commiting a grave moral error. How long is it until some paid Microsoft shill notices them and publicly calls Firefox "the browser of the perverted"? That would be an entirely supportable conclusion. And it would reflect badly not only on Mozilla, but other Open Source projects too.

Check out the extensions for yourself and try to justify them as anything other than porn gatherers. Then join me in mailing the Firefox team, to help them back on the right path (No reply as of 04/24, and it has been about a month). Having a major open source project associate itself publicly with perversion and pornography, with the exploitation and degradation of women, is no way to gain respect.

Multizilla has this (Dup Tab), as does Mouse Guestures

Add both of those to mozilla and you have almost everything you need!

Multizilla has this (Dup Tab), as does Mouse Guestures

Add both of those to mozilla and you have almost everything you need!

You need AdBlock for Mozilla or FireFox.
Anyways, they should just give you a fact sheet or something, and it should not be illegal. If they choose to kill themselves, it was their choice. Teach it without using the word root legal.

That's a good idea.

To get around the sticky problem of storing people's private keys, I think it'd be handy if Gmail just took care of the encrypting side of things, and let people decrypt things themselves. (Especially if they allow POP access, as some mail clients have GPG plugins and such.) If Gmail just stored public keys and organized them in a keyring for you, when you sent something to a user whose public key they have, they could encrypt it before sending it on its merry way.

As for not being able to stick ads in the way with encrypted email -- well, I'd bet the amount of encrypted email Gmail gets will be vastly overshadowed by plaintext mail, and it wouldn't really cut into profits. Or perhaps the software that analyzes mail and matches up ads could be tailored to recognize GPG-encrypted messages, and display ads for security programs?

With regard to universities reading your email: use PGP. Encrypt anything that you don't want anyone else to read. Hell, encrypt everything, if you can get all your correspondents to use it, too. If you're worried about them reading your email, simply taking it off the server a few times a day isn't really going to help you--it wouldn't be difficult for them to keep permanent copies, or just pull the mail spool from a backup tape, if they really wanted email as evidence. So that's a silly reason to use POP over IMAP.

Personally, I use fetchmail to pull my mail off several mail servers and put it in a local (network-wise) IMAP store that works really fast within the network, while still being accessible (via TLS/SSL) outside. Since I use more than one computer regularly, IMAP is really convenient.

For the client, I usually use Mozilla Thunderbird. I like that it's cross-platform (and works equally well on Linux and Windows), and it has a great PGP plugin, Enigmail, that supports both inline and PGP/MIME signing and encryption. I had used Evolution on Linux before, but it was a little too bloaty for my taste, and it doesn't support pgp-inline, which is all that at least half of the people I know can use.

Firefox doesn't have Google toolbar functionality.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

God I love Mozilla! You want spyware free browser add-ons? Check MozDev's active projects.

What about when both ads and useful content are hosted from the same hostname?

AdBlock, one of the true Browser helpers (for those that don't know, moz/firefox required)