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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

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

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

checkout the abiword plugin for mozilla at
http://abimoz.mozdev.org

pretty cool

Oh, and there's an IE skin for Mozilla, which along with custom splash screens and icon sets, allows you to ease your co-workers into Mozilla.

I'll make it easy for the infidels:

Some Mozilla Themes

This link will take the netizen to a "completely infexible" theme-installer for Mozilla! </sarcasm> ;c)

I use Yahoo Bookmarks. Love it. Only on IE though. Mozilla has
Bookie project. I once tried to contribute
but found it hard to get up to speed.

Some are harder than others, but some are really straightforward -- especially with that mozdev link.

The problem is that I keep looking to the bottom of the screen for window managment out of habit, and end up closing windows with 4 or 5 tabs by accident.

Have you looked into Multizilla? It's a much nicer tab implementation than the tabbed interface of the stock mozilla. Plus it's got a few other nice features, such as browser spoofing for the websites designed by lazy idiots who make everything IE only. Like any mozilla add-on, it's quite tiny, and worth a spin.

If you would like native look'n'feel for Max OS X, try Chimera. I don't have OS X, but it claims to be what you're looking for!

Spamming this until everyone uses it ! :) It si teh rox.

I have been using mozilla on alll my os's nonstop since M18 now, but I persoanly think the interface looks very slick. And its fully skinable... try the IE6 look-a-like skin from http://themes.mozdev.org for instance

*cough* Chimera *cough*

From the out_of_the_topic dept.

If you dont wanna register at NYTimes visit NYT Random Login Generator
But because NYTimes block based on referrers you got two chances 1 - Disable Javascript or a better one get Multizilla Toolbar for Mozilla
It has a nice option like "Dont send referrer" .
Choose it and boom you are in !

... has been around for some time now.

.. and most of banners on the same platform..
One single best download I've done in weeks.

With Appleworks? It's okay, but it's not as good as Abiword. StarOffice doesn't do Mac, and OpenOffice for OSX is (AFAIK) still beta. So, to adequately import .docs you need to fink or else install xdarwin and a window manager, but there are issues with drivers etc.,and you're giving up pretty Aqua, so you may as well be using Yellowdog or Debian, because if all you want is a nice looking desktop that doesn't tie you to Microsoft and gives you some great free apps, Linux is still the best way to go.

Or were you thinking that one could Switch® to OSX and then pay US $499 for Microsoft Office: Mac. Hmm. They say "Switch" but I hear "Bait and Switch."

p.s. Mozilla works great on OSX, and Chimera's just been updated so you all can drag that Explorer into the trash any time now.

Spellchecker

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mozdev.org should have one. The site is real slow now, however.

I want to take this opportunity to pimp the imho hottest invention since sliced bread : gesture based browsing. Ok, maybe not the hottest, but certainly the most surprising; when I first heard of this, it sounded like one of those typical academic nutty ideas that all look great on a whiteboard, but are just a pain IRL (Black and White, anyone ?). But after trying it out for a month, I can say it just seriously, totally, completely, ROCKS. In fact, it is so good that I find myself trying to use gestures for regular windows stuff. Especially stuff like Minimize and Back would be really good to have systemwide, so you can just sweep a file explorer away rather than go aiming for that little '_' button..

The gestures are also a big convenience when you extensively use tabbed browsing.

In short.. if, like me, you thought this was a totally useless pet project of some academic... you're wrong. Get it now.

Actually, Kinda got the hint from the page itself.
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/

plugindoc.mozdev.org is what you want.

mozdev.org is the premier destination for those seeking Mozilla plug-ins, add-ons and enhancements. You can find all kinds of XUL projects, some made to work with Mozilla, some completely unrelated to Mozilla. Have a look, maybe a touch.

--Asa

BannerBlind

After doing a quick search, these request for enhancements are the ones you're most likely going to be interested in. (Can't link directly to them from slashdot)

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94035
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64066
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78104
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140238

I ran in to that just last week trying to set up an MSN Messenger account (my gf uses messenger) and was greeted by the fun "You must upgrade to IE or Netscape 4+" type of message. What a crock. Luckily I had been playing on MozDev and found lots of cool toolbars, like the google toolbar, and the UA bar which lets you set your useragent from a handy dropbox, like IE4, 5, 5.5, 6, etc. There I just set it to IE6/NT and the page loaded fine, set up my Messenger account, and I was done. Yeah, I need to "upgrade" for what reason again?

If you use the UABar, though, remember to reset your UA string to the default before you close Mozilla. If you don't, it gets saved to the prefs.js file and next time it starts, will barf an error because the UA number is too low (I think IE uses part of the NS4 version string), not a huge deal but you do have to edit the prefs.js to fix it.

I ran in to that just last week trying to set up an MSN Messenger account (my gf uses messenger) and was greeted by the fun "You must upgrade to IE or Netscape 4+" type of message. What a crock. Luckily I had been playing on MozDev and found lots of cool toolbars, like the google toolbar, and the UA bar which lets you set your useragent from a handy dropbox, like IE4, 5, 5.5, 6, etc. There I just set it to IE6/NT and the page loaded fine, set up my Messenger account, and I was done. Yeah, I need to "upgrade" for what reason again?

If you use the UABar, though, remember to reset your UA string to the default before you close Mozilla. If you don't, it gets saved to the prefs.js file and next time it starts, will barf an error because the UA number is too low (I think IE uses part of the NS4 version string), not a huge deal but you do have to edit the prefs.js to fix it.

Right now GUI wise, it's the easiest and nicest way to use gnupg for emails in Windows.

Try out Enigmail [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/].

Enigmail is a "plugin" for Mozilla/Netscape7 Mail which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by the popular GPG and PGP software (see screenshots). Enigmail is open source and dually-licensed under the GNU General Public License and the Mozilla Public License .

If you use Mozilla, make sure to install Bannerblind.

As the name suggests, it hides any banners on a website you're viewing. It works by telling Mozilla to not display/remove images of a certain size (most ads are of a specific size). You can also add different banner sizes as time goes by (I've eliminated 99% of ads - Slashdot is completely ad free for me).

Or did everyone else really enjoy the opportunity to see the future of mouse gestures? Thank you, Opera and Mozilla!

Mycroft now has a Mozilla search plugin for the version of Google with keyboard shortcuts. And to be on topic, Mycroft also has a search plugin for Teoma.

If you're using a new version of Mozilla (newer than 1.1alpha), you can press Ctrl+Shift+F to go to your chosen search engine. If you install and select the Google Keys search plugin it's easy to do an entire search using only the keyboard. You can press Ctrl+Shift+F, type your query, press enter, and then press '2' to go to the second hit or 'KLK' to go to the second adwords ad.

Hmm...my googlebar for mozilla does the exact same thing from the "page info" menu button.

I would be curious to know if Google had any official feelings on the Googlebar project. Do any mozilla-loving Google hackers use this utility for instance? Have any submitted code for it? Will Google be offering any sort of official support for Mozilla in the future?

You might be interested in this: http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

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Oh, in case anybody else would like to install gestures on mozilla, see here. It takes just a few seconds to install. The last remaining Opera feature that I would like to see in mozilla is the ability to search in the address bar, like "g bill gates sucks" to send "bill gates sucks" to google, or "z programming for linux" to search amazon.

What version did you use? It's up to 0.3.0 now and is really amazing. The beauty of OmniWeb, the speed of iCab, the HTML compliance of Mozilla, and the launch time of IE. Sure it has some bugs, but it's not even a .5 product! When it's done, chimera is gonna be an amazing browswer. I use it 95% of the time and I love it. (For heavy-duty downloads, I fetch the lizard ;)

Link to their site

MacIE and Netscape/Mozilla both face the same basic problem. They are ports of applications written for a system with a very limited architecture (Mac OS 9). Until the apps work in the way that is best suited to the OS X architecture (this can be done from within Carbon), they will not reach their full potential.

Try Chimera, which is a Cocoa browser app wrapped around Gecko. It's not complete feature-wise yet, but the rendering engine is quite solid and development is moving quickly.

- Scott

1. No fullscreen button to switch back and forth between the modes.
Have you tried Mouse Gestures yet? Latest versions include gestures to go to full screen & back again. True, it's not a pretty button, but, hey, you get what you pay for.

Agreed Mozilla themes are less customizable than, say, Galeon's. I have read good things about K-meleon (assuming you are on MS Windows), but there are apparently some issues holding up a stable release. They have betas based on Mozilla 1.0 for the adventurous types.

You might also be interested in Beonex.

There are a few more alternative browsers to be found here here. N.B. It will take a while for some of these projects to catch up with 1.0.

In the meantime, you can choose to show only one toolbar with View--> Show/Hide and check off the things you want to hide.

You want Optimoz. It adds mouse gestures to Mozilla.

/mike

Here ya go. This should make you happy. Now you can make Moz look just like IE. Bout as standard as you can get.

Enjoy!

So you are really, really, absolutely sure that you want an IE skin?

Who decided to drop the spell checker facilities? The spellchecker wasn't dropped. Netscape bought there spellchecker from someone else, so they couldn't release the source to it. There is a working spellchecker, but it hasn't been merged into Mozilla's source tree yet. See bug 56301 for more details as well.

Netscape is owned by the same company that owns AIM & ICQ, so it's to be expected that they would support it. Jabberzilla will work with even more IM clients than Netscape 7.

posting anonymous so i dont get shot, but try this. sounds good, was about to try it right now.

Alright, I realise what we're talking about is more personal aesthetic tastes than anything else, but I just couldn't believe someone would describe Internet Explorer as "gorgeous".

Functional, yes. Gorgeous, what?

Regardless, if that's the biggest complaint, try any of the smattering of themes available. Now that 1.0 is out, I imagine they'll start growing in number soon, but at least try out Orbit Moz Theme

Ciryon

Use the Spelling checker from MozDev. Make sure you install the one at the bottom of the page that says it is for RC3

I havn't tried it myself with email, only the html editor, but the spellchecker here might work, depending on what operating system you're on. There's a 1.0/1.0rc3 build near the bottom of the instalation page.