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Yeah, that's why I use Chimera.

Funny thing, it's a browser built on the Mozilla platform. If they can build other apps out of Mozilla pieces, then hey, pants.

Where would one define "webcal" as a protocol, anyway?

Is this a job for Protozilla?

Mozilla users, check out Mozblog. It's a nifty XUL app that integrates into Mozilla. You can drag and drop links, post, and publish all from the little window without even having to visit blogger.com.

http://uabar.mozdev.org/

I used to be a big OmniWeb user, but the lack of full JavaScript and CSS support finally got to me. After a short stint with Mozilla, I'm finally going to give Chimera a more serious look. Chimera is officially at 0.4.0, with nightly builds showing 0.5.0. It's basically the same Gecko rendering engine of Mozilla/Netscape, but it's a Cocoa app. When this finally hits 1.0, I predict that it's going to be an amazing application. Definitely worth a try at this point.

Wrong. Objective C is supported anywhere gcc runs, and there are multiple free implementations of Foundation (the non-GUI portion of Cocoa). The UI portion of Cocoa is not portable (although GNUstep is getting closer), but then neither is Carbon.

When Alias|wavefront ported Maya to Mac OS X, they had no need for a 9 version, they had no existing Mac code base to salvage, they were starting from scratch. Yet they ended up using Carbon

Possibly because when they began their port, Cocoa projects couldn't have ObjC and C++ source code in the same file. They can now, so there's no reason you can't have a Cocoa front end to your C++ back end (see Chimera for an example).

It's great for little one-shot tools and utilities, but the big boys use Carbon.

Most of the big boys may use Carbon currently, but Cocoa lets the little guys create apps that rival them. See OmniWeb, OmniGraffle, TIFFany, Stone Design, ViaVoice, and many others. Perhaps what you're seeing is that companies writing Carbon apps need many more developers than those writing Cocoa apps.

FYI, Chimera is a Mac OS X web browser using the Gecko engine. It's not done, but it's supposed to be pretty nice.

I would also like to see a Mac version

It is a Mozilla addon, you can get it from http://bannerblind.mozdev.org/

It looks at all the images on a page, and checks them against a list of normal banner sizes (which you can modify, add, delete, etc.), and hides the images that match those sizes, thus hiding most banner ads :)

There has been spell checker for Mozilla for some time now. You can download the mozilla spell checker from mozdev.org.

The site claims that the spellchecker should land in the mozilla tree probably right after 1.0. I guess it's late... but you can still download it yourself.

There should NEVER be a built-in selector in Mozilla because you're essentially asking Mozilla to fake being IE which is faking being MOZILLA. (IE is not actually Mozilla/4 even though it tells people it is.)

Anyway, if you really feel the need to do this, there is an add-on to allow you to change the string on the fly. It's called UABar. Enjoy.

In case anyone didn't know already, spellchecker binaries can be found here (Windows) and here (UNIX/Linux). Assuming that you are using standard mozilla builds from mozilla.org, these should work.

There is a spell checker available for Mozilla, it is just not in the main project yet. Binaries can be found here (Windows) and here (UNIX/Linux). Assuming that you are using standard mozilla builds from mozilla.org, these should work.

Why is the spellchecker still not in the main project? IMHO, because a spellchecker is a feature that mostly users want but it generally takes an active developer advocate for a project to get added in mozilla.

1. Go here and click on the Install link to download and install the theme.
2. Click on the "View" Menu
3. Click on "Apply Theme"
4. Click on "Internet Explorer"
5. Close all Mozilla windows.

I like Orbit . Fairly legible, bright. Radio buttons and check boxes look too similar tho, losing their ability to tell you what they are.

When will Mozilla feature speedier web browsing, and better integration with best-of-breed Microsoft products such as MSN messenger and Outlook XP?

Mozilla does have "better" integration with MSN messenger and Outbreak : namely by isolating you from those security risks, it helps preserve the integrity of your user experience.

A theme that more closely matches the award winning Windows look-and-feel would also be helpful.

Who talks like that? I couldn't give a crap about the "award winning" look-and-feel. The only award I care about is the one I give out, and I prefer the award winning orbit skin to the cellar dweller IE skin.

When will Mozilla feature speedier web browsing, and better integration with best-of-breed Microsoft products such as MSN messenger and Outlook XP?

Mozilla does have "better" integration with MSN messenger and Outbreak : namely by isolating you from those security risks, it helps preserve the integrity of your user experience.

A theme that more closely matches the award winning Windows look-and-feel would also be helpful.

Who talks like that? I couldn't give a crap about the "award winning" look-and-feel. The only award I care about is the one I give out, and I prefer the award winning orbit skin to the cellar dweller IE skin.

My favorite is Lo-Fi classic - this is just about as clean as themes can get, and definitely should come with Mozilla! Sometimes show this to the (unregistered) Opera users to show how schweet and uncluttered and fast this thing can be. =)

Here are the new XPIs for Mozilla 1.1 final. You need to click on the platform-independent enigmail XPI and *one* of the platform-dependent enigmime XPIs.

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmail-0.65.2.x pi (platform independent)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-l inux.xpi (for standard Mozilla tarball from mozilla.org)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-l inux_gcc296.xpi (for RedHat 7.x or Mandrake 8.x, 9.0)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-w in32.xpi (for Windows)

The above links do not appear on the download page yet, but they will after the files have been copied over to downloads.mozdev.org

Here are the new XPIs for Mozilla 1.1 final. You need to click on the platform-independent enigmail XPI and *one* of the platform-dependent enigmime XPIs.

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmail-0.65.2.x pi (platform independent)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-l inux.xpi (for standard Mozilla tarball from mozilla.org)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-l inux_gcc296.xpi (for RedHat 7.x or Mandrake 8.x, 9.0)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-w in32.xpi (for Windows)

The above links do not appear on the download page yet, but they will after the files have been copied over to downloads.mozdev.org

Here are the new XPIs for Mozilla 1.1 final. You need to click on the platform-independent enigmail XPI and *one* of the platform-dependent enigmime XPIs.

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmail-0.65.2.x pi (platform independent)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-l inux.xpi (for standard Mozilla tarball from mozilla.org)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-l inux_gcc296.xpi (for RedHat 7.x or Mandrake 8.x, 9.0)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-w in32.xpi (for Windows)

The above links do not appear on the download page yet, but they will after the files have been copied over to downloads.mozdev.org

Here are the new XPIs for Mozilla 1.1 final. You need to click on the platform-independent enigmail XPI and *one* of the platform-dependent enigmime XPIs.

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmail-0.65.2.x pi (platform independent)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-l inux.xpi (for standard Mozilla tarball from mozilla.org)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-l inux_gcc296.xpi (for RedHat 7.x or Mandrake 8.x, 9.0)

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/dload/enigmime-0.65.2-w in32.xpi (for Windows)

The above links do not appear on the download page yet, but they will after the files have been copied over to downloads.mozdev.org

My favorite theme: Pinball.

Get this theme. Very, very smooth and clean. Several amplitudes better than the default theme. It's surprising that Mozilla doesn't come with this supplied as a standard...

well, it's a technology test and so it doesn't have to look professional. If you want a nice looking splash screen wait for Netscape7. Having said that, you can download another splash screen for mozilla here. Some are very nice, although mozilla sits in turbo mode enough for me not to worry about the splash screen as I never see it.

A theme that more closely matches the award winning Windows look-and-feel. :)

Um. If I understand what you're saying, then you're looking for Multizilla, a tabbed browsing enhancement for Mozilla. You can open a folder full of links as multiple tabs in a Mozilla window with a single click, or set it up to open them on launch.

Time to switch?

But before it even finished starting it gave me to error messages about some DLL. Then enigmail is complaining at me too.

Check out the radial context menus or the mouse gestures. Look at edit->preferences->navigator->internet search, and edit->preferences->advanced->Scripts&Plugin s. And finally take a look at the preferences bar to quickly enable or disable certain options. These are always the first things I install with any new Mozilla, release or nightly.

Check out the radial context menus or the mouse gestures. Look at edit->preferences->navigator->internet search, and edit->preferences->advanced->Scripts&Plugin s. And finally take a look at the preferences bar to quickly enable or disable certain options. These are always the first things I install with any new Mozilla, release or nightly.

All the features you are missing and then some with regard to tabs are in multizilla. This is an add-on to mozilla that allows you to switch the tabs to the bottom of the screen and use shortcuts to switch tabs. Combined with mousegestures courtesy of optimoz you can work a lot more effeciently and unclutter your desktop to boot. No going back for me now, I get bitten by trying to use gestures on other peoples PC's way too much. I know my browser is better!

All the features you are missing and then some with regard to tabs are in multizilla. This is an add-on to mozilla that allows you to switch the tabs to the bottom of the screen and use shortcuts to switch tabs. Combined with mousegestures courtesy of optimoz you can work a lot more effeciently and unclutter your desktop to boot. No going back for me now, I get bitten by trying to use gestures on other peoples PC's way too much. I know my browser is better!

The main difference between IE and the mozilla/galeon/konq/operas of the world is that because IE is the monopoly, they don't have to *care* what make a good browser.

For example, IE will probably *never* implement things like pop up blocking, a cookie dialogue that doesn't suck (more info doesn't stay out), or any of the really funky and innovative things that Konq/mozilla does.

Because MS is the big fish, they have to be friendly to everyone, and that includes places that do things like pop up ads (msn for example), so adding in that ability is counter productive to them, as is things like opening up the API enough that projects like those at mozdev can exist.

Defaults to right button to use gestures but I soon reconfigured to use the middle one....

Once again, for mouse gestures go Here.

Do you use the middle button to paste URLs to content area? I don't, so I use middle button for gestures and added user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false); to user.css. Also, I modified gestimp.js after installing Optimoz so that the gestures I want to use are easy to make. Just modify those addGesture() calls: for example, addGesture("LRL", "Close Document [1]","closeDoc();"); tells that if I move Left-Right-Left (kind of wipe out) the active window closes. If you want to make some interesting gestures you might want to disable the default action for the middle mouse button over a link. See info about hidden Mozilla prefs.

Oh, and if you make any changes to gestimp.js make sure to back it up or it will be lost after you upgrade Mozilla and/or Optimoz.

Also, if you have a recent Mozilla installation you probably want to open html.css too and remove the support for marquee and blink.

I never had any problems installing Optimoz either. You probably have some problems with the Mozilla installation itself. I installed my copy of Mozilla without root and run it without root. If you installed Mozilla as a root you might need to install addons as a root too and even start Mozilla once as a root.

Granted it's limited to web browsing, but it's a start

It uses a modified TWM as the window manager and XUL modified Mozilla as the browser.

I just tried installing it, and the way it's done leaves them almost useless. By default, you do gestures with the left mouse button (which causes all sorts of selection problems)... and when you try to map it to other buttons, you get even worse problems. Middle button will paste things, which will often load an undesired web page after the gesture is finished, and using right button doesn't work at all because the right button immediately brings up a context menu which screws up any chance of a gesture! Worst off, they seemingly won't fix this on Linux at all. (It would seem to me that the best way to handle this would be to have the context menu appear when you stop pressing the button (assuming you made no gesture). This is the way Opera does it.)

The only option they give you is to combine button presses with the ctrl, alt or shift keys to do gestures... but this mostly defeats the purpose of gestures in the first place, since you're supposed to be able to do them with just the mouse.

I had high hopes for this, but unless they fix the problems with it, I find it very disappointing (It also took me quite some time to get the "automatic" installation to actually work properly, as it gave me no end of permission problems)

You can add Gesture capability to Mozilla. Just get This.

You can find Mozilla gestures here

The free version says you may have to hold down control to open new links... is that true for IE6?

I just switched to Mozilla when I found out there was a google toolbar clone. There are still some issues with Mozilla but its also got a few advantages. Try it if you're sick of hearing the "95% of the web uses IE" stats.

Yes this will work for OSX, I had no trouble viewing your site. And yes, I am using OSX.

Google bar

Oh. Proxomitron (yes, I know, I'm being a tiresome shill for Proxomitron) can do both of these things.

So can Mozilla.

MultiZilla has a subproject that adds a google toolbar to Mozilla. Check it out.

There is a project xalled easysearch on mozdev.org. It supports google, search within site....

The saving/renaming shouldn't be necessary. Try a plugin on Mozdev with software install enabled. The site probably needs an update

Just another example of the coolness that is Mozilla: Bannerblind.
It removes graphics / objects from web pages that match pre-determined sizes. Very cool!

Or, gee whiz, you could just use a browser that lets you block popups easily without addons.

Checkout the screenshot at mozdev.org small screenshot of Abiword mozilla plugin
big screeshot of Abiword mozilla plugin .

As for speed i would expect this would be no slower than running both mozilla than Abiword at the same time, so if you already have mozilla open all day everyday the speed difference is probably not noticable