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Yahoo Companion at mozdev:
http://companion.mozdev.org/

Google Toolbar at mozdev:
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

Search plugins for Mozilla/Firefox
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html

WordReference.com search link:
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void (Qr=prompt('Translate to Spanish:',''))};if(Qr)location.href='http://wordre ference.com/es/Translation.asp?tranword='+escape(Q r)

Just copy and paste that text all on one line into a bookmark and whala, you have a little popup box search that, with a little sophistication, can be tweaked to work for whatever site you want.

I did this for Amazon.com by going to their site, View HTML Source, search for "form", copy the link in that form tag, paste it over the WordReference.com link in my bookmark, search for "input" in the source, find the name of the input for the search term, and add this to the end of the boomark's URL "?searchterm=". Hope that makes sense! Unfortunately I can't demonstrate it directly because slashdot forbids javascript links (with good reason).

Amazon.com search link:
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void (Qr=prompt('Search Amazon:',''))};if(Qr)location.href='http://www.ama zon.com/exec/obidos/handle-generic-form/ref=br_ss_ /103-8765421-6019820?websearch.field-keywords='+es cape(Qr)+'&start=0&search-option=search-amazon&sto re-name=all-product-search&Go=Go!&action-next-page =templates/web-search/encode.html'

Yahoo Companion at mozdev:
http://companion.mozdev.org/

Google Toolbar at mozdev:
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

Search plugins for Mozilla/Firefox
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html

WordReference.com search link:
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void (Qr=prompt('Translate to Spanish:',''))};if(Qr)location.href='http://wordre ference.com/es/Translation.asp?tranword='+escape(Q r)

Just copy and paste that text all on one line into a bookmark and whala, you have a little popup box search that, with a little sophistication, can be tweaked to work for whatever site you want.

I did this for Amazon.com by going to their site, View HTML Source, search for "form", copy the link in that form tag, paste it over the WordReference.com link in my bookmark, search for "input" in the source, find the name of the input for the search term, and add this to the end of the boomark's URL "?searchterm=". Hope that makes sense! Unfortunately I can't demonstrate it directly because slashdot forbids javascript links (with good reason).

Amazon.com search link:
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void (Qr=prompt('Search Amazon:',''))};if(Qr)location.href='http://www.ama zon.com/exec/obidos/handle-generic-form/ref=br_ss_ /103-8765421-6019820?websearch.field-keywords='+es cape(Qr)+'&start=0&search-option=search-amazon&sto re-name=all-product-search&Go=Go!&action-next-page =templates/web-search/encode.html'

I pulled up EditCSS [my favorite mozilla plug-in if you haven't tried it] and tried adding clear:all and then clear:both, neither seemed to stop a text size increase from moving the navigation over the text. Perhaps its because the page has some absolutely positioned elements. Thanks for your suggestions though, hopefully I'll get around to fixing it up some day soon.

GoogleBar for Mozilla
Enjoy!
(dunno what yahoo companion is supposed to do, sorry... but pretty much sure FireFox does that natively or with an extension ^__^ )

Then we have to download a third-party browser and somehow keep them from using IE.

You can do the same and more(*) by installing PrefBar with FireFox or Mozilla.

(*)From the PrefBar web site: The original preferences toolbar was designed to give the user more control over the pages viewed, and to allow the power browser to use mozilla with greater ease and efficiency than ever before. The PrefBar2 takes this concept to a whole new level; along with the standard preference checkboxes, the new version includes utility buttons, user agent spoofing, web links, and more, served on a fully customizable toolbar with a side of white rice.

IE theme for Mozilla. This might even be parent proof.

True, but menus are not easy to remember when it's just a bunch of text. It helps when there are icons next to each of the menu items. MS Word does this, and Firefox can be made to do this with the CuteMenus extension.

I'm curious, anyone want to chime in about Encyclopedia culture elsewhere? That is, outside the English-speaking world?

I fondly remember encyclopedias from when I was a kid, but I didn't really use them so much. I don't know if I'd buy a set now if I were a parent.

Now a good Dictionary, on the other hand, is something I find indispensible. And while I use the net for that a lot (thank you mycroft for the dictionary and wikipedia search options!) I still plan to buy the next edition of the full OED... hopefully I will be able to afford it about the same time they get around to publishing the 3rd edition.

Also I have some reference works from the late 1800s and early 1900s, and I must say, they may not be up to date but they are somehow Very Cool.

Why not use something more appropriate, like FlashBlock?

But wait there's more, Adblock also blocks flash and even puts a little tab around the flash frame so you can block them more easily. That way you won't even see the white "click to play" frame in place of the flash at all.

Now for an unlimited time only try them for 30 days risk-free and if you like them, just send 3 easy payments of nothing to nobody.

Thanks for that, I wasn't awared of it. But for those like me that don't like "just click to install" stuff, here is page with more information.

You mean like the Flash Click To View plugin?

It turns all Flash animations into a little button - which loads and shows the flash animation only when you click on it.

Flash ads got you down? Sounds like you need the Adblock plugin for Mozilla. Allows you to block flash, images, javascript, iframes, etc with regular expressions. I used privoxy before but having to edit text files everytime I wanted to block something sucked, adblock is integrated into the browser so it only takes a click or two.

i'm kind of surprised that no-one else has mentioned this, but Piro's excellent TabBrowser Extensions for Mozilla/Firebird/etc. includes this, as well as a ton of other options to greatly enhance tabbed browsing.

personally, i've yet to find a browser that compares to Firefox with AdBlock and TBE.

I myself prefer the newer, better FlashBlock Mozilla/Firefox plugin.

There's an abandoned one, but I have no idea if it works on current Moz.

Not just that, it's supposed to be a slideshow, not a website. So if you want to complain, you should ask yourself whether you'd rather have had a PowerPoint presentation...
They are using mozpoint, which tries to be "a presentation library (of CSS and JS) that can be used to make simple but elegant presentations using the browser as a platform for rendering presentation content". (while on the website it is claimed that the presentations should "work in that other browser too", it might still have some problems, according to the comments here) I hadn't heard about it yet, but it doesn't seem such a bad idea. Might lead to another nice Mozilla application to complement Firefox, Thunderbird, Calendar etc...
So: they wanted to do a slideshow presentation on a Mozilla Developer Day, and they chose to use/support mozpoint. Nice, no?

Well, if you like tabs...

go to mozdev.org and install the multizilla extension. Tab super power. /t

Well, if you like tabs...

go to mozdev.org and install the multizilla extension. Tab super power. /t

all I want to do is bind that to my mousewheel

Thats exactly what it does here.

that thing needs some serious UI help

Go ahead, make it's day.

There is an extension to Mozilla called 'AbBlock', which does a VERY good job of blocking just about anything you want, even Flash. You can use (limited) RegExp to set up filters if you want, or just point and click. I recommend it.

I also want ctrl-mousewheel to make text bigger and smaller. The Mouse Gestures extension is very configurable and lets you make it ctrl-mousewheel if you like.

multizilla.mozdev.org

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

I've been using Adblock, a Firefox Extension, for some time now. It lets you set custom filters for a variety of page elements. The ability to automatically block all Flash(or images) from a given server means that I never have to see the same annoying ad animation twice. Give it a try... it's very nice to have all of the benefits of Flash with none of the problems.

I second the RSS Reader Panel -- I don't see any point in getting a separate aggregator application when so many RSS feeds force you to visit the site for the full article.

As for Slashdot, I use Slashzilla -- it only shows the headlines and topic icons, but that's usually enough to decide whether an article will be interesting.

httrack is also your friend. I just found this tool (via the SpiderZilla front-end for Mozilla/Firefox). Did a good job of spidering a couple sites I was having trouble with using wget.

For your particular example, why not just turn off sending referrer information in your browser? The prefbar has a nice check box that lets you turn off sending referrer whenever you like.

Well, it's really called GnuPG, but you're right, it is the standard that basically states: "the sender's signing key validates against the original key you trusted by signing it with your own key." I've started signing all of my emails in Thunderbird using the help of the Enigmail plugin and encrypting any files I attach in my emails with the help of WinPT. I know this post looks like a giant plug for these "products," but since they're all free, open source software which I have no affiliation with, it's simply me trying to get the word out that there IS a manner in which to get your emails to your friends in a trusted, reliable manner, and hopefully convert a few of your friends and family to using the same method in the future. We wouldn't have to worry about address spoofing if email gpg signing was a defacto standard of every email client! Plus it would be a lot safer and difficult to circumvent (ultimately) than Yet Another Format for email.

That's not true. Next time, you ought to check your facts before posting. I suggest using Google . :)

Moz/Fb/Ffox users, the download link is here.

That's not true. Next time, you ought to check your facts before posting. I suggest using Google . :)

Moz/Fb/Ffox users, the download link is here.

This is no big deal. Unless you have configured your browser in a special way, it will gladly give out the URL of the page you were coming from to the page you are going to.

The HTTP 1.1 standard includes this "referrer" statement in the headers of http. Following the direct link you posted, and watching mozilla discuss with the server through the mozilla module Live HTTP Headers, you can see your browser gives out this information:

Referer: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/0 2/25/0857235&mode=nested

One, you could pass it as part of the URL (i.e. using GET) in your book mark. Like this.

Two, you could roll a search engine plug-in and pass the limiter as part of the form (i.e. using PUT) with <input type="hidden" ..., or add it to an existing plug-in.

Or, three, you could make your own extensions to the tool bar of the browser, if there isn't already one to do the trick.

Umm, no, Sunbird is a Mozilla product. Its the standalone version of their Calender.

• none -- images will not animate, at all, ever.
• once -- images will animate once, then stop on the last frame
• normal -- the default, images animate and loop as requested by the webpage

I didn't feel compelled to switch browsers simply because of security flaws. It was the issue of unpatched security flaws.

Just about every major piece of software I can think of has had security issues at some point, including Flash as you pointed out. If the developers address the issues in a timely fashion I can patch & move on. Microsoft was not solving some extremely risky problems. So I dumped Internet Explorer. I understand it doesn't mean I'm without any risk - I just feel more comfortable with the new level of risk I have adopted.

Regarding Flash, there is also the option of installing the Click to View extension.

It is not advisable to completely abandon IE on Windows, however. Firefox won't work for grabbing updates from windowsupdate.com.

The IE View extension works great. It adds a context menu option to view whatever page you're on in IE. Definitely beats copying and pasting the URL.

And if you want an explanation of what all the about:config stuff means, you could just download Preferential and that'd take care of that just fine.

Or you could download and install the Preferential Extension (Project page | [Extension Room) and be able to edit settings directly from the Tools menu.

JMHO

Or you could download and install the Preferential Extension (Project page | [Extension Room) and be able to edit settings directly from the Tools menu.

JMHO

One of my greatest complaints about mozilla/firebird/whichever was that Mouse Gestures never worked properly on linux with the right mouse button, a function I had gotten extremely used to in Opera. Galeon allowed me to use this functionality, so I primarily used Galeon on my GNOME desktops (both Linux and FreeBSD.) Much to my delight, Firefox 0.8 supports right-mouse-button based Mouse Gestures flawlessly. I am in the process of switching over to it in entirety now. Thank you, for making the one little feature I really care about work properly.

1. The Mozilla Suite enables Google searches through the location bar,
2. Firefox has a separte search bar next to the location bar,
3. There's an unofficial Googlebar that blows the IE version away, and
4. Mozilla comes with a Search Sidebar (available as an extension for FF) which allows access to not only Google, but Lycos, Yahoo, Altavista, Amazon, and can be expanded for other engines.

1. The Mozilla Suite enables Google searches through the location bar,
2. Firefox has a separte search bar next to the location bar,
3. There's an unofficial Googlebar that blows the IE version away, and
4. Mozilla comes with a Search Sidebar (available as an extension for FF) which allows access to not only Google, but Lycos, Yahoo, Altavista, Amazon, and can be expanded for other engines.

One solution is to download and install the User Agent Switcher Extension. You can then have FireBird/Fox/Mozilla send the IE 6.0 User Agent string.

Another extension that was a requisite for me to move from IE to FireBird/Fox was the GoogleBar, which emulates the Google Toolbar for IE. (They also have ones to mimic MSN and Yahoo! toolbar, IIRC.)

The Theme Site for Firefox

The Extension Site for Firefox

Extensions on Mozdev

Forums for mozilla

Surprizingly the red panda site (Firefox) isn't down yet.

So instead of offering their official toolbar for IE only (the one for Mozilla is unofficial), start to slowly phase out the Google Toolbar and replace it with the Google Browser which would basically be a Google branded Mozilla Firebird. With all the features that make Firebird great like Tabbed Browsing, with the addition of the Google Toolbar features such as PageRank, etc. All on a cross platform basis.

If people get used to downloading better browsers now, then they won't even notice when the next release of IE starts to reject the Google Toolbar.

Let them know what you think

MultiZilla appears to also have this feature. http://multizilla.mozdev.org/

I'm not really into pictures with bullshit site- and phonesex ads on them, but if the web is your choice...

Boobdex.com is a good start.
And I like the amateur pages at Voyeurweb. I get lots of goodness from Coolio's Babelog as well.
You might also spend some quality time at Domai or Kindgirls, which both have much free goodness.

If you're willing to put your money where your mouth is, Hegre-Archives is awesome, as are Quantum Proadult and Met Art. Playboy's CyberClub can keep a downloader busy for weeks.

Hardcore really isn't my area of interest, but holy crap, if you're even making jokes about pr0n, regular slashdotter NineNine has just the site for you

I use scripts to grab most of my smut, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Mozilla extensions Linky and Magpie which combine to make my life as a pr0n browser much more pleasant.

and in a new twist, the latest version of the google toolbar returns results with the page one results being filled with nothing but ads related to the search. you have to go to page 2 for the standard results.

The solution's simple -- switch to Mozilla and install the Googlebar -- it contains even more functionality than Google's official toolbar for IE and returns results as though you'd searched from Google's main page.

Or, if you don't want to switch browsers, you can install the Google Deskbar, which allows you to search even without a browser window.

1. Download this and save somewhere
2. Double-click on the file you saved
3. Click "yes" to import the registry entries
4. No, there's no profit here