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Flash Block, when combined with AdBlock, will do everything you want and need. (Block the flash, then use the right click context menu to block that server.

To bad there is no way for users to share adblock config files (or at least I haven't found one).

Flash Block, when combined with AdBlock, will do everything you want and need. (Block the flash, then use the right click context menu to block that server.

To bad there is no way for users to share adblock config files (or at least I haven't found one).

I can't speak for Symantec, but I can speak for AdBlock - an extension for Mozilla Firebird. The content still gets downloaded, but you don't see it. In fact, you can chose to leave the empty space, or have it hide the empty space. It works with regular expressions, so you have complete and total control over what you see and what you block. _Complete_ (Oh yeah, and nothing gets blocked unless you ask it to block something.)

I joined the CSS Working Group at the beginning of 1997, and am the author of the quite popular CSS editor add-on for Composer called CaScadeS...

So, trust me, CSS is not forgotten.

Daniel Glazman

> In Mozilla, you need to download the newest CVS
> build. Then, apply the patch described in
> attachment #15 to bug #1378805. Then recompile
> with the APPLET_EXP_SUPPORT flag turned on. Run
> the moztest_applet_enable program to fix the
> resultant binary, and you're all set!

Or... you could just download Mozilla 1.5 and then click on one of these XPIs that install java from one click.

But maybe you're a masochist :)

Java support on Mozilla COULD be better. It really isn't Mozilla's problem... mostly SUNs.

That said a lot of us are trying to push for better Java support within Mozilla. This is why we created the java.mozdev.org project.

> In Mozilla, you need to download the newest CVS
> build. Then, apply the patch described in
> attachment #15 to bug #1378805. Then recompile
> with the APPLET_EXP_SUPPORT flag turned on. Run
> the moztest_applet_enable program to fix the
> resultant binary, and you're all set!

Or... you could just download Mozilla 1.5 and then click on one of these XPIs that install java from one click.

But maybe you're a masochist :)

Java support on Mozilla COULD be better. It really isn't Mozilla's problem... mostly SUNs.

That said a lot of us are trying to push for better Java support within Mozilla. This is why we created the java.mozdev.org project.

XULPlanet

mozdev

Mozilla main site Somebody just pissed up my leg in this thread pointing out that Mozilla wasn't the first project that uses an markup language to describe GUIs. He may be right, but I don't think anybody else except Mozilla has such a kick-ass and complete implementation of the concept. Microsoft probably just has screenshots and they're still busy rewriting the XUL specification :-)

How about a calculator, a MySQL front end, a storybook creator, a solitaire games, a program to run adventure games, a Minesweeper clone... maybe one day an office suite.

How about a calculator, a MySQL front end, a storybook creator, a solitaire games, a program to run adventure games, a Minesweeper clone... maybe one day an office suite.

How about a calculator, a MySQL front end, a storybook creator, a solitaire games, a program to run adventure games, a Minesweeper clone... maybe one day an office suite.

How about a calculator, a MySQL front end, a storybook creator, a solitaire games, a program to run adventure games, a Minesweeper clone... maybe one day an office suite.

How about a calculator, a MySQL front end, a storybook creator, a solitaire games, a program to run adventure games, a Minesweeper clone... maybe one day an office suite.

How about a calculator, a MySQL front end, a storybook creator, a solitaire games, a program to run adventure games, a Minesweeper clone... maybe one day an office suite.

How about a calculator, a MySQL front end, a storybook creator, a solitaire games, a program to run adventure games, a Minesweeper clone... maybe one day an office suite.

PrefBar.

still hunting for a good way to block flash ads...

I'm sure you do realize that mozilla and IE save bookmarks/favorites differently. IE uses individual files for each favorite, where as mozilla uses one file that is basically a webpage itself to hold all of your favorite website needs. There just isn't a practical way for mozilla to use IE's bookmarks if you consider how many profiles mozilla is run on that DON'T have IE.

With that said, you can still find some free wizards to in various places.

If you use the Luna * theme for Mozilla Firebird, run some special customizations with the UI, it'll look EXACTLY like IE (put the location bar in it's own dialog, add a go button, get rid of the search bar, switch the stop and refresh buttons, add the bookmarks and history button, and you've almost got yourself a direct copy (without the sponsored media button and a search button -- but you already have a search bar that you got rid of))

Making toolbars moveable has been slated for AFTER Mozilla Firebird 1.0, so at least you know they are on it. But there are so many programs that don't have moveable toolbars that your argument is invalid anyway.

Regarding making a non-Microsoft Internet Explorer, I think that is a horrible idea. If you can't get used to the Options dialog in Mozilla Firebird, then you don't deserve to be called a teckie. I know some pretty slow people that fell right into that, and away from IE's checkbox heaven.

*Luna does not yet run under MF 0.7. It does run under 0.6, though.

still hunting for a good way to block flash ads

1. Who cares how fast it loads? Anything within a second or two is fine. How fast it renders is what matters. Mozilla out renders IE but IE does a decent job too. For arguement's sake, the few milliseconds IE is slower than Mozilla are not a big deal in the scope of things.

2. There's an IE theme to make Mozilla look as downright shitty as IE available from here.

3. No, since everybody knows it's spelled r0x0rs.

Yeah, the default 50x50 flame icon for Firebird looks like pixelated shit - like bad clipart from the late 80s.

I'm partial to the flaming feather myself.

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The great thing about mozilla is that it is open source. Not only that but it follows the XUL application model so it's easily extensible. Here is how you can change the icon yourself. Some chillin icons are here and a faithful extension might be found by clicking here. Go easy on the MozDev server, it's already suicidal.

. As for databases being slower than file access, have you ever heard of In Memory Databases?

Sheesh. Talk about arrogant, closed-minded recipe followers!

If you're using Mozilla, use the Live HTTP Headers plugin; you can hit reload to resubmit the page, and even if the page is STILL down you now have the HTTP header, with the form contents. It's great! Like a sniffer w/o all that pesky filter config.

Copy the data at the end of the header out to a text file, and try again later. Of course all non-alphanumeric characters are encoded, but a few search/replaces will fix that.

I've used this when submitting a complicated message on a (broken) contact form... I recovered the message, and send it in an email instead.

And this page has all the information to install plugins. Besides, flash isn't hard to install. you download a .exe, and double-click it. Rocket science, I know.

I found another source, at 10-20 kbps:
http://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/

The new version of Adblock, when finished, will indeed prevent Mozilla from ever downloading the ads.

It will also be able to block anything that has an URL (from iframes to plugins) instead of just blocking images. It will so fulfill the needs of Bug 78104.

you may restore MNG support with these: [...]

No, these plug-ins will not restore support for MNG in Mozilla. They will only add a different way to include MNG using the EMBED tag. This is different from native support using the standard IMG tag.

Have a look at these two pages, providing support for Mozilla and Firebird:

• MNG XPI for Mozilla (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, OS/2)
• MNG Support for FireBird (Windows)

The second page contains a test image using IMG, EMBED and OBJECT. With version 1.4 of Mozilla, I can see all three versions of the animation. With the plug-ins that you are linking to, you will probably not be able see the first one (which is the one that most web designers should be using). I haven't tried Mozilla 1.5 yet and I doubt that I will upgrade because of these MNG problems, but expect that none of the animations will be displayed with 1.5.

With version 1.4 of Mozilla, I can also see all the images on the Opossum demo page, showing how JNG compresses better than GIF and provides a much better quality (full color and true transparency instead of 1-bit "all or nothing" transparency). I can also see various other test cases for MNG without any problems. I suppose that Mozilla 1.5 will fail these tests.

Firebird has a Windows installer available here, and a flash player installer is available here. If you download Firebird in archive form, you have to make some registry entries for the Flash install to work seamlessly, but the executable version should be fine.

Have fun. :P

Firebird has a Windows installer available here, and a flash player installer is available here. If you download Firebird in archive form, you have to make some registry entries for the Flash install to work seamlessly, but the executable version should be fine.

Have fun. :P

That's OK on the Netscape/Firebird slip-up. As for gesturing, I mainly use the equivalent of backwards/forwards navigation. I used to use the alt+arrows extensively as you do. There are also mouse gesture equivalents for everything else you mention, although the bookmark one is fairly complex. Here's a link to all of the default supported gestures. As an aside, I've noticed that you can open fresh blank tabs, by clicking and moving up without dragging over any links. Have fun!

That's not so much a bug as it is the choice of the extension author. A well-packaged extension, such as the Googlebar, will give the user the choice of a system-wide install or a profile install. Why more of the extension authors don't do this is a mystery to me....

http://blackdiamond.mozdev.org

The Black Diamond project is a project to create a distrubution of Firebird with many of the popular extentions added.

Linkage for (as of now) un-Slashdotted Firebird 0.7 Installers...

http://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/

You should check out PrefBar. It has worked very well for me in the past when viewing "IE Only" sites with Mozilla.

There was a change to one of the preference panels. You can find a to the bug here.

Hopefully they'll release a version that is more compatiable with 0.7 soon.

I really don't see where the 5% figure comes from. Install Xpde. It will give it the look of Windows XP. Use mozilla, with the IE theme from mozdev.org. That way mozilla will appear to be IE (duh!).

Get the latest version of Mozillabird. Unlike the bloated mozilla, its only a 6Mb download, and is getting smaller everyday! Its Extremly easy to use, complete with tabs, built in popup blocking and more! If you know somebody whose got screwed by a Internet explorer vulnerability, then get it installed today and save them!

And of course, if you want to take the plunge into linux, then use epiphany, easily the best browser for linux! Decent fonts, easy to use and no geeky bits!

Funny you mention this. I bought Opera 7 a while back in May, determined to try to make it work for me since I got tired of IE and Outlook Express and wanted something faster than Mozilla.

The browser is excellent and is faster than Mozilla, hands down, but the e-mail experience was a disaster. Mozilla Mail is *far* better than Opera's built-in e-mail client, and frankly so is Outlook Express. I switched back to Mozilla, even though it's slower on start-up, so that I could better work with e-mail. Getting the Orbit 3+1 skin for Mozilla was a side-benefit:
http://themes.mozdev.org/themes/orbit.html

I liked Opera 7 as a browser a lot, but until you can customize the e-mail client as much as you can in Mozilla, it's just an unused download.

Peace,
Chuck

Less than one keystroke? You can search for stuff by just thinking about it or something?

Not quite, but close. Mouse gestures allow you to manipulate your browser using only your mouse.

(And no, I don't mean by clicking on a button... :P)

Jay (=

Except that us Moz users also tend to have the PrefBar Images checkbox cleared on many sites. Heck, if someone is feeling bored one weekend I'm sure they could hammer out a XUL plugin to automatically disable images (and/or Flash) in certain domains.

IE has one advantage over the rest, but I've learned to deal without it (why, Google, WHY?).

I guess you're referring to the Google Toolbar? Yep, I can't live without that either. Both Opera and Mozilla/Firebird have a basic version of this built-in, and there is a full-fledged workalike available for Mozilla/Firebird. So you don't need to do without any longer. :D

Yes it has a calendar, as well as alot more optional "bloat."

IIRC The calendar installs by default in windows versions prior to 2000. 2000 and XP you must manualy install.

Bloat good for the soul

Yes it has a calendar, as well as alot more optional "bloat."

IIRC The calendar installs by default in windows versions prior to 2000. 2000 and XP you must manualy install.

Bloat good for the soul

You can change IE's default to Google with this

I mainly use Mozilla and I use the Google toolbar from here.

I think this link should work:

Pueblo

Speaking as someone whose been MUDing for well over 5 years now and has graduated to coding the games rather then playing them I've always liked and enjoyed Pueblo. It's a nice little client and as far as I know its still free and available at http://pueblo.mozdev.org/downloads.html
Though I'm not 100% sure if thats the newest version out there. I'd heard some guys at Sourceforge were continueing development.
I highly recommend it. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the pay Clients but its good and solid, especially if you're writing code in notepad and copying it in all the time.

If you're happy with (not so nicely formatted) HTML as input , this is certainly a start.

Some alternative editors:

- mozile - xhtml editing for mozilla.

- Bitflux Editor - Wysiwyg XML Editing for Mozilla (based on mozile and yes, this is a shameless plug ;) )

- Xopus - Wysiwyg XML Editing for MSIE/Win (commercial product...)

Check out Mozilla Firebird and install the Mozex extension.

Then you can easily associate external editors for textareas. If that doesn't suit your needs you could always write your own extension. (It's pretty easy, I wrote my first one, Image Zoomer, in about 2 days last week.)

Check out Mozilla Firebird and install the Mozex extension.

Then you can easily associate external editors for textareas. If that doesn't suit your needs you could always write your own extension. (It's pretty easy, I wrote my first one, Image Zoomer, in about 2 days last week.)

Be under a BSD-ish license, so it could be linked in to commercial and non-commercial products. Be a LIBRARY, not a stand-alone executable, so it can be linked into anything at all.

Those GNU folks are just evil; that's why they would never agree with something like the Vorbis BSD license.

Or it could be that most people don't really understand the need for encryption, are hopelessly confused by key management, and won't use it until it is bundled with their computer and employed by default in their email program.