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Autoscroll extension for Mozilla/Phoenix as reported by Mozillazine.

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A feature I would like similar to 'back' would be to reopen the last page I was on when I last closed the browser. Often, I close the window and find that I still need some info that was on that last page.

as a tabbed-browsing convert, i have accidentally closed every tab i had open by just closing mozilla completely. Mozilla didn't have all the tab features i wanted by itself, so i got Multizilla and installed it for better tab support. It has an option to save open tabs on browser exit, and it works perfectly. The only issue i've found is that when you set it to open your homepage on load, it does this even when it's already open from the last time you kicked up mozilla. Every once and a while, i end up with about 4 copies of slashdot open at the same time... but what the hell, middle-click kills them quickly enough.
this might be the solution for you.

So install the Google toolbar if you're using IE, or the Mozilla variant if you're using Mozilla, and use the "up" button provided there. Whee.

The companies do have a product to sell. It's called IP and they are only looking for one customer.

A software IP company is different. It can be formed with almost zero capital other than money used for salaries. Very few other industries have this attribute. There is no rule that says you have to have expensive offices, a sales force, factories, etc.

Valuable IP is created all of the time. It's just that during the bubble a lot of the same IP was created too many times. This made most of it worthless. There will be new opportunities in the future.

Be prepared to fail. Two out of three or more attempts are going to fail. Here's one of my failures, you can have it for free. http://xpserver.mozdev.org/

Software IP companies can work, I have done several successful ones. I don't recommend doing it useless you are a group of very experienced developers with a knack for assessing future markets. When a company likes this fails, you have only yourself to blame.

If you can't accept this kind of risk go get a job for a salary.

I haven't seen a popup in months and months thanks to good popup blocking in Opera and Mozilla.

I haven't seen a banner ad in months as well thanks to Bannerblind.

I always delete the flash dll mozilla uses so I never see flash ads either. (Occasionally it is required so I use opera for that.)

This is all highly necessary because I can only get 28.8 where I live (not even 56K) and damn flash and other banners slow you down so your surfing is impossible.

Seriously the only ads I ever manage to see are those text ones on google and they tend to be relevant and non-annoying so I sometimes click through.

Perhaps you are referring to QuickPrefs? Great button. I'd recommend installing it.

Read the tutorial at mozdev.org.

Read the tutorial at mozdev.org.

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

Not that I use that myself, just the equivalent in Phoenix. Actually, one of the reasons I like Phoenix better is because you can easily add whatever engine you want to the bar. See http://mycroft.mozdev.org

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

Not that I use that myself, just the equivalent in Phoenix. Actually, one of the reasons I like Phoenix better is because you can easily add whatever engine you want to the bar. See http://mycroft.mozdev.org

or just use bannerblind

or just use bannerblind

Bannerblind has kept me banner free with no problems for a few months now.

Same here. I have forgotten what it feels like to see a pop-up on my machine. Rare is the day I see a banner ad as well, due to mighty hosts blocking and even if I haven't blocked a host, bannerblind* usually zaps it anyway. I don't even have to resort to a windows-dependent solution like the Proxomitron anymore!

*That note on the bannerblind site about an error where bannerblind fails to register properly is not a big deal. Look at bug 1745 listed and a work-around us there.

If you have Mozilla, I highly recommend you install Bannerblind. I've been using it for many months and it does a great job of removing adverts!

The way it works is that, when you finish downloading a web page, it goes through the downloaded page and removes images of a specific height & width (for both GIF and Flash ads). It works well since all ads are of a specific size.

In my experience, it rarely remove a non-advert and if it's a nuisance for a specific page, you can easily turn it off.

The actual removal of the image can either force your page to reformat or to leave it as it is, with the image space blank (I prefer the former).

Also, you can add/remove image sizes so it's easy to keep up with new formats.

If you have Mozilla, I highly recommend you install Bannerblind. I've been using it for many months and it does a great job of removing adverts!

The way it works is that, when you finish downloading a web page, it goes through the downloaded page and removes images of a specific height & width (for both GIF and Flash ads). It works well since all ads are of a specific size.

In my experience, it rarely remove a non-advert and if it's a nuisance for a specific page, you can easily turn it off.

The actual removal of the image can either force your page to reformat or to leave it as it is, with the image space blank (I prefer the former).

Also, you can add/remove image sizes so it's easy to keep up with new formats.

If you don't want to give up the look of IE, try the IE skin.

I've done this with Mozilla for awhile--http://multizilla.mozdev.org/.

And don't forget to head on over to themes.mozdev.org for some tasty chrome! Orbit 3+1 is my personal favourite.

http://mozamiga.mozdev.org

Keep your eyes on that.

I found a workaround for this which can be found in the bannerblind bugzilla.

Banner ads?

I had almost forgotten that there were banner ads on the web. I suggest all mozilla users take a quick look at bannerblind.

Some people go way overboard on the number of webpages they have open at once, and tabbed browsing is a lot more pleasent than a bunch of individual browsers on the taskbar.

A good site for mozilla newbies would be MozDev. More specifically, OptiMoz. Try installing the plugins here and you might/will be impressed.

Some people go way overboard on the number of webpages they have open at once, and tabbed browsing is a lot more pleasent than a bunch of individual browsers on the taskbar.

A good site for mozilla newbies would be MozDev. More specifically, OptiMoz. Try installing the plugins here and you might/will be impressed.

Because MSIE is not a community project. There are many, many slashdot readers who contribute to mozilla in terms of code, bug reports, add-ons and so on. There's a whole community of people surrounding this project and many of them also congregate here.

You can't say that about IE. There is no development community. It's all privately developed by a corporation.

The mozilla updates are announced so much more than MSIE because they are important because they are developed and perpetuated by members of this community.

I haven't tried under 1.2.1, but GVdP's instructions worked for me under 1.2 on both Win2K and WinXP.

There is an excellent browser toolbar for mozilla which emulates the googlebar at;

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

This seems to be having problems with the Linux build at present but two other projects linked from this page are Mycroft which has plug ins to allow you to search over 170 different search engines (check it out) and Easysearch which allows you to search google and others.

While exploring the mozdev site, check out Mouse Gestures, Pie Menus (both under Optimoz) and the Multizilla toolbar. These, for me, have made browsing fun and efficient once again.

If you are keen, there is an easy to follow tutorial on building your own toolbars at;
Building a toolbar for Netscape 7 (applies to Mozilla too). I used this to write a toolbar to search our Corporate Directory, Intranet and Google, It took me three days to write from scratch but is now quite widely used.

There is an excellent browser toolbar for mozilla which emulates the googlebar at;

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

This seems to be having problems with the Linux build at present but two other projects linked from this page are Mycroft which has plug ins to allow you to search over 170 different search engines (check it out) and Easysearch which allows you to search google and others.

While exploring the mozdev site, check out Mouse Gestures, Pie Menus (both under Optimoz) and the Multizilla toolbar. These, for me, have made browsing fun and efficient once again.

If you are keen, there is an easy to follow tutorial on building your own toolbars at;
Building a toolbar for Netscape 7 (applies to Mozilla too). I used this to write a toolbar to search our Corporate Directory, Intranet and Google, It took me three days to write from scratch but is now quite widely used.

There is an excellent browser toolbar for mozilla which emulates the googlebar at;

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

This seems to be having problems with the Linux build at present but two other projects linked from this page are Mycroft which has plug ins to allow you to search over 170 different search engines (check it out) and Easysearch which allows you to search google and others.

While exploring the mozdev site, check out Mouse Gestures, Pie Menus (both under Optimoz) and the Multizilla toolbar. These, for me, have made browsing fun and efficient once again.

If you are keen, there is an easy to follow tutorial on building your own toolbars at;
Building a toolbar for Netscape 7 (applies to Mozilla too). I used this to write a toolbar to search our Corporate Directory, Intranet and Google, It took me three days to write from scratch but is now quite widely used.

There is an excellent browser toolbar for mozilla which emulates the googlebar at;

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

This seems to be having problems with the Linux build at present but two other projects linked from this page are Mycroft which has plug ins to allow you to search over 170 different search engines (check it out) and Easysearch which allows you to search google and others.

While exploring the mozdev site, check out Mouse Gestures, Pie Menus (both under Optimoz) and the Multizilla toolbar. These, for me, have made browsing fun and efficient once again.

If you are keen, there is an easy to follow tutorial on building your own toolbars at;
Building a toolbar for Netscape 7 (applies to Mozilla too). I used this to write a toolbar to search our Corporate Directory, Intranet and Google, It took me three days to write from scratch but is now quite widely used.

Check out the mycroft project at mozdev. Goes waay beyond the Google toolbar. If you really want the GOogle toolbar, get it from here.

Check out the mycroft project at mozdev. Goes waay beyond the Google toolbar. If you really want the GOogle toolbar, get it from here.

At the risk of stating the obvious, I can't see this bug on either 1.2 or 1.21 on Windows or Linux. Running KDE is dual screen mode I normally set Mozilla to open one window for email on the right hand screen which I attach to all desktops and keep a web browser window open on the right hand screen, generally opening only one window since I discovered the wonderful Multizilla extension.

I do think the mozilla mail client is one of the most underrated part of the suite. It's IMAP compatability puts Notes and (to a lesser extent) Outlook and Outlook express to shame. The new filter after after the fact functionality is very useful, I have around 10,000 emails in an archived mailbox on my local machine which I have finally been able to quickly organise into useful categories. I even managed to find a UK english spellchecker for it the other day ... :-)

And for this, because of Mozilla's open nature, we have Multizilla.

Well, first off I would suggest you getting her on Phoenix, and not Mozilla.

1) Phoenix Looks better (and is more costimizable*)
(*meaning in an easy drag and drop way)
2) It's faster and doesn't inculde all the rest of the things your wife doesn't use
(mail/chatzilla/etc.)
3) Themes... Funny enough as it sounds, this way you can make your wife "feel at home" again.
4) Stability. For some odd reason Phx, feels a bit more secure than Moz.

I just converted my girlfriend and her familyover to Phoenix. I understand your pain.
I'm a mozilla user, (I use mail, chatzilla, all of it) and am so happy with it. But when my girlfriend would get on my computer, she hated it. Saying it respondes slowly, was ugly, etc.
I then installed Phoenix on her computer, and installed the Qute theme (and LUNA) here;

Qute , Luna
(Luna's a copy of IE's interface)

(my girlfriend loved the Qute theme)

I loaded it up, changed the Phoenix Icon to
on her desktop (download the icons here;
ICON site

And in 10min, taught her to use Tab browing, (how to save tab groups as a bookmark (great for research), easy searching, and how to costimize her toolbar (drag'n'drop can't be easier). She was hooked.
At first her impresion was "No, not mozilla please" but within a day, she grinned at me and said "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually really like it allot better than IE)

This coming from a 20year girl who's studying Finances. I was pleased!

My next step is to teach her Mousegestures, that will definitally get her hooked (no way going back after that).
Mouse gestures

For all type of way to custimize Phoenix I recommend you start here;
Phoenix Help

Cheers, and hope this has helpes you out with your convert!! =)

You also better check the extensions in multizilla, the original creator of tabbed browsing for mozilla.

I have had MultiZilla installed since 1.1b, and all I've had to do to upgrade is dowload the full file and install in the same directory as before. I've never had to mess around with preferences (except when new features come out, which I generally enable, and all the new options MultiZilla has gained since the time of Mozilla 1.1b) and I've never had to reinstall plugins.

Oh, and I upgrade nearly every day, though I'll keep 1.2 for about a week before upgrading--it'll be different to use an extremely stable release in place of a relatively stable (compared to IE) nightly build.

This was posted to the SpellChecker Email List on 14 Nov 2002. After 2.5 months without a spellchecker for Mozilla on Win32, someone finally released one that works. See http://mozillacafe.org/MozSpell_1.2f_w32.xpi.

Alternatively, you can download working spellcheckers for Linux and Windows from here.

Just in case anyone wondered, using the spellchecker from http://spellchecker.mozdev.org has not worked for Win32 nightly builds, Mozilla 1.1 or 1.2b releases since the end of August. The spellcheck.xpi from Netscape 7 may work for these Linux builds but does not work for Win32.

This was posted to the SpellChecker Email List on 14 Nov 2002. After 2.5 months without a spellchecker for Mozilla on Win32, someone finally released one that works. See http://mozillacafe.org/MozSpell_1.2f_w32.xpi.

Alternatively, you can download working spellcheckers for Linux and Windows from here.

Just in case anyone wondered, using the spellchecker from http://spellchecker.mozdev.org has not worked for Win32 nightly builds, Mozilla 1.1 or 1.2b releases since the end of August. The spellcheck.xpi from Netscape 7 may work for these Linux builds but does not work for Win32.

> Sure you have spellchecker problem...

There are two solutions to this:

1.) Download the SpellChecker for Moz.

2.) Download the Netscape spellchecker.

I agree it does need one in the main tree, and should have one. In the meantime, you can download a workable spellchecker http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/installation.html

http://spellchecker.mozdev.org

I'm using the same theme with 1.2 (orbit retro) that i was using for 1.2b... Apparently themes were broken between 1.2a and 1.2b, but no idea what will happen with 1.3a...

thanks for replying at all. I agree, threads expire pretty quickly, which is a problem with a high turnover site like Slashdot. Yeah, I realize that implementing these things is work, and you'll have to set your own priorities.

As for Usenet vs. Web, Usenet would clearly be a better technology to build on -- it's decentralized, it's scalable, it's fast, etc. -- but the simple fact is that the real progress on stuff like collaborative filtering happens in web forums -- both the coders and the users hang out there. At least finally web forums are getting offline-reader functionality with tools like Forumzilla.

I'm using mozilla with the internet explorer skin. It works great, though there's a little hack you have to do to get the home button back into the main toolbar.

Mozilla is a better browser than i.e. in a lot of ways (tabs, standards compliance, etc.), but the big one for me is that i.e. is essentially an ad delivery systerm. So there's not much we can do to selectively block cookies, or graphics from specific servers, or pop-ups, etc. And I don't like the prospect of being at the mercy of unscrupulous companies who wish to make changes without my knowledge or consent. (Actually, what I'd really like is a way to get rid of i.e. entirely on w2k/xp.)

That explains mozilla, but why the i.e. skin? Well, the default mozilla skins are not exactly beautiful. And my wife is highly resistant to change of any kind when it comes to her computer, and with the i.e. skin I was able to switch her w2k machine to mozilla without even a word of protest. Of course, at this point she's so used to tabbed browsing and the pop-up blocker that she wouldn't switch back anyway. And me, I don't have to worry about some exploit using i.e. to take her computer down.

Actually, I even use the i.e. skin on my linux box. Just for the perverse fun of it, I guess. I also have a nice wallpaper from w2k of a diver against a blue sky. It's very spiffy, though naturally I GIMPed out the little windows logo first :-).

You can also do this with multizilla and get some powerful tabbing features as part of the deal as well.