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As an ex-myspacer, I know of the ocular and mental angish caused by some of the pages on myspace. However, greasemonkey and the myspace custome style remover script make using myspace bearable.

After reading through approximately 60 posts out of 150 posted, it is obvious that since the program being criticized was of the conservative view, Spork/Sprock/Whatever was justified in his presentations to Visa and other sponsors. If someone wants to complaint to a corporation about the content of a show that company sponsors, more power to them. I will be hard-pressed to contain my humor, however, when some conservative goes to a company for advertising on a show like "Will and Grace", for example, and Slashdot readers will be sure to criticize that corporation for withdrawing ad dollars. Content is content. Some people will like it; some will be upset by it. However, one must be consistent in their stance on this issue. Is it acceptable for a corporation to withdraw advertising revenue after political heat is applied, or is it not? As for the commentators, anonymous and otherwise, people are not sheeple. Using that word only makes you appear elitist and condescending. I give the flamebait/troll tag ten minutes on the over/under.
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> I'm quite curious as to how/why Akamai is expanding

Millions of suckers not using adblock?

*.akamai.net/*

It's not offtopic (bad moderation), it's directly related to captchas on forms and just like the trick of doing the capture in the browser this is using, its the same thing, only for encrypting the message sent.

I've used both captchas and this script in the same project and if you're using this html captcha to do forms, you'll likely do the same.

Comment was:

Another useful web page trick is Javascript encoding of PGP:
http://www.hanewin.net/encrypt/

Instead of feedback forms that send plain text messages back to you for all to read, it lets you encrypt the text in the browser using PGP before it is sent. If you don't want people snooping on submitted messages this is a quick and simple way to do it.

Thunderbird has a plugin that lets you send and receive GnuPGP mails.
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Another useful web page trick is Javascript encoding of PGP:
http://www.hanewin.net/encrypt/

Instead of feedback forms that send plain text messages back to you for all to read, it lets you encrypt the text in the browser using PGP before it is sent. If you don't want people snooping on submitted messages this is a quick and simple way to do it.

Thunderbird has a plugin that lets you send and receive GnuPGP mails.
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Maybe this could help you. I'm using the WebMail extension to access Hotmail and GMail. In the early days it was somehow buggy but now it works pretty well! It supports hotmail, gmail, yahoo, lycos, aol and maildotcom.

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The gov't can read my e-mail all they want. At least, they can try to. http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

FireFox 2.0 has a good builtin RSS reader, but FF2.0 has other problems (so I have heard). I personally perfer Sage: http://sage.mozdev.org/

Just run Firefox with the "IE Tab" plug-in and be done with it. Gives you a better and more customizable UI plus the ability to access IE Only application and sites. http://ietab.mozdev.org/

Unlike Firefox, Microsoft made IE7's search engine to be customizable by anyone.

You don't need to be a developer at all.

I use http://dictionary.com/, their FF2 search-bar plugin is here: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/dictionary.com.htm l. I use the first one listed.

I use the Firefox extensiont Flashblock. It's a lifesaver. You an allow flash or not. Since so many ads use flash it's all I need. I'd given up on other ad blocking stuff except for Firefox's pop up blocker. I can ignore the banner ads that are not flash.

You mean you don't use FlashBlock?

If you're using firefox, you must get Flash Block. If I didn't have flashblock to block all the annoying advertisements, I'd go insane.

Linky: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

I hit one page looking for a free/open source application (wish I could remember which one it was) and was greeted with a large banner at the top and an audio recording saying my computer was "infected" with internet explorer and I should switch to Firefox to remedy it.

Now I can understand the advantages and disadvantages of Firefox and IE, but annoying me by acting like a jackass isn't the way to convince me to switch.

I will say, after trying IE7 under Vista at work, trying Firefox 2.0, having issues with IE6 remembering my settings and finding out about IETab, the switch was an easy decision for me. Pundit asshattery hurt rather than helped the situation.

http://ietab.mozdev.org/
just in case

Oh, I dunno, it would be really great if someone developed a plugin that could work with a major email client, so you could use just one click to sign or encrypt emails, or import keys from a keyserver, or decrypt emails from others. I'm thinking they could call it something like "Enigmail". I think that name has a nice ring to it, don't you?

I suppose we could just keep sending them garbage that looks like encrypted email until they give in and get enigmail or whatever. ;-)

There definitely is a need for OFFICIAL EXTENSIONS ,considering that most of firefox's crashes,high CPU usage that users report are caused by faulty/buggy extensions

Could you cite this number for Iraqi deaths since the war began? I recall a rather quick repudiation of these numbers after the researcher/theorist proposed them. Amazing how this false number gets a +4, Insightful mod ... wait - it's really not. It's just Slashdot ...
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I'm in the same boat when it comes to using the adblock extension for Firefox, it's really the only reason I had stayed with it for so long. However, upon installing Vista, I have completely migrated from Firefox to IE7. I began to grow tired of Firefox's bugs (dare I say it), and I have been a Firefox user...well, since it was known as Firebird , or Phoenix. I'm quite happy with IE7 and I don't plan on switching back anytime soon, despite Firefox 2.0. I still keep all browsers on hand, because I develope website designs, but IE7 has taken hold of my regular browsing.

FlashBlock?

What's nice about FlashBlock is that it still draws the place where the Flash applet is placed, and then you can click on it if you want to see it. Actually, since I've installed it, I haven't really needed AdBlock too much. (Banner ads don't bother me that much, though.) No annoying audio, unless you want it. No Flash-originating popups. It's actually sort of interesting just to see the "hidden" Flash on some pages that are obviously used for some sort of tracking. There are a few times where the Flash applet is specified to cover part of the page, so that you have to click on it to activate it, then click on it to close/hide it, but that's pretty rare. In fact, the only place I can remember it being a problem is SI.com, which is probably not a site most Slashdotters visit very often.

Good afternoon Mr. Beard,

Thanks for taking the time out to field questions from the /. crowd.

1. What is Mozilla's direction with regards to implementing out-of-the-box email security with Thunderbird? Granted, there are extensions like Enigmail that add the functionality after the fact. However, the average user may not be aware of such an extension, or have the knowledge to use it. Perhaps your company could work closely with the folks at GnuPG to include such a functionality into Thunderbird (along with a friendly UI for the initial setup process) and offer secure email to the masses? In doing so, the end user would also have a trusted source for receiving GnuPG updates (only to the extent of Thunderbird functionality of course) by way of automatic updates.

2. While Firefox has come a long way, there are still some issues with rendering certain web pages that use style sheets. While it is mainly due to the use of non-standard web publishing practices, one problematic page load of a website may be enough to deter a newcomer to Firefox. What is your company doing to address such issues?

3. One of the more widely discussed issues with Firefox has been memory leaks. Whatever the cause, this has also been a deterrent for new users, and thereby affected market share. In this recent /. article titled "Nine Reasons to Skip Firefox 2.0", TFA states "a growing number of users are reporting bugs, widening memory leaks, unexpected instability, poor compatibility, and an overall experience that is inferior to that offered by prior versions of the browser." While there's no doubt that your company has worked hard to bring 2.0 to fruition, what is your company's response to such a backlash? And will such a response prompt a maintenance release to address such issues?

Thanks again for your time!

Perhaps I should have been more clear, but I was about to head to work.

The problem that webmasters have with FasterFox has nothing to do with HTTP/1.1 or any RFC. It has to do with that FasterFox prefetches all of the links on a page. That's why there are webmasters figuring out how to block FasterFox requests.

As a webmaster, I happen to agree with them. I don't want people downloading pages that they're not even going to look at, wasting my bandwidth. The pipelining and max connections I don't have a problem with. But they're in about:config and you don't need FasterFox for that.

Better yet, add a search plugin for those about:config options at the mozillazine.org knowledge base.

... you open your non-default browser, browse to a website, click a link, and it launches your default browser? No.

Of course not. That would indeed be counter-intuitive, not to mention silly. What I said was that he can INSTALL AN EXTENSION that gives him the ability to DELIBERATELY CHOOSE to have a link open in IE by RIGHT-CLICKING and selecting (ahem) "Open link target in IE."

Here is a screen shot showing the extra entry on the context menu that the "IE View" extension adds:

http://ieview.mozdev.org/screenshots.html

And yes, it was rude of the Firefox developers to take system default status without asking.

"C: 'The black header is not auspicious...'"

I generally keep IE as the default browser because I get email with links for some admin tasks (approvals) that only work in IE.

You need IE View. It's a Firefox extension that adds a new entry to the context menu: "Open link target in IE".

So, your user sends you an approval email, you right click the link and select "Open in IE", and boom. There you go.

is there a way to ... revert ^w to what it has always meant in unix?

Keyconfig might be able to fix that.

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

John

Give me some good sites where flash really shows what it's good for!

If you're using Firefox, you'll want this extension to make the obnoxious flash-based ads a voluntary thing.

I recently installed flashblock: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
I feel like I have my computer back! 98% of the flash I saw were CPU hungry ads.
I do not miss them.

was checked that FlashBlock still worked.

I'm not joking. I was more concerned about that than the sound being in sync. Does anyone think I'm weird?

If anything, this is an argument for what others have been suggesting - Everything remains as an extension, but included with the official release. Flashblock suits your needs exactly, and would, IMHO, be a candidate for inclusion.

Yes it is too much to ask, since the javascript function in the page itself is what is opening a new window.
To catch the basic non-customised functions that open windows use the Smart Middle Click extension - http://dmextension.mozdev.org/misc.html

There's a greasemonkey script that does this (and it's incredibly useful!); http://downloads.mozdev.org/greasemonkey/linkify.u ser.js. Greasemonkey is an incredibly useful tool. You can make major modifications to pages with relatively simple javascript

Proxy Autoconfig - lets you write code that looks somewhat like this -

function FindProxyForURL(url,host) {
var local_socks = "SOCKS localhost:10801";
if (shExpMatch(host, "*.mail.yahoo.com") {
return local_socks;
}
....
return "DIRECT";
}

Which Google plugin -- the official Google Toolbar? Do David Baron and Google know about the problem?

I do see something about the Google Toolbar listed on the problematic extensions page but not on Hendikins' Firefox memory usage FQA. Hmm.

>> That said, I do believe that some crazy person made a FireFox extension to embed IE or something and run the wretched things.

I believe you're talking about IEView, which is useful for those of us who run Firefox on XP and want to visit sites that just don't work (or don't work as well) in Firefox..

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My Firefox on WinXP has been open about 8 hours and is using only 129 MB so far. I have 16 extensions loaded right now.

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Build ID: 2006100403

Enabled Extensions: [16]
- All-in-One Sidebar 0.7 RC 4: http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/
- ChatZilla 0.9.75: http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/
- CoLT 2.2.1: http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/
- Console 0.3.6: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3181 02
- DOM Inspector 1.8.1: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/
- FoxyTunes 2.0.2.1: http://www.foxytunes.com/
- Gmail Manager 0.5.3: http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/
- Greasemonkey 0.6.5.20060727: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
- MR Tech Local Install 5.3: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/
- Saved From URL 1.2: http://www.google.com/search?q=Bon%20Echo%20Saved% 20From%20URL
- Stylish 0.4: http://userstyles.org/stylish/
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.61001: http://tmp.garyr.net/
- Talkback 2.0: http://talkback.mozilla.org/
- Update Channel Selector 1.0.1: http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/u pdatechannel/index.html
- userChrome.js 0.7: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3977 35
- XPather 1.0.1: http://xpath.alephzarro.com/

Disabled Extensions: [1]
- Free Download Manager plugin 1.0: http://freedownloadmanager.org/

Total Extensions: 17

Installed Themes: [3]
- Firefox (default): http://www.mozilla.org/
- Halloween 1.9.5: http://edhume.googlepages.com/home
- QuBranch 1.0.20060929: http://www.schrade.com/firefox/themes/

Installed Plugins: (10)
- Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 8
- Microsoft® DRM
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- OpenOffice.org Plug-in
- QuickTime Plug-in 7.1
- RealPlayer Version Plugin
- RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit)
- Shockwave Flash
- Shockwave for Director
- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

My Firefox on WinXP has been open about 8 hours and is using only 129 MB so far. I have 16 extensions loaded right now. Generated: Sat Oct 07 2006 00:57:46 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061004 BonEcho/2.0 Build ID: 2006100403 Enabled Extensions: [16] - All-in-One Sidebar 0.7 RC 4: http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/ - ChatZilla 0.9.75: http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/ - CoLT 2.2.1: http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/ - Console 0.3.6: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3181 02 - DOM Inspector 1.8.1: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/ - FoxyTunes 2.0.2.1: http://www.foxytunes.com/ - Gmail Manager 0.5.3: http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/ - Greasemonkey 0.6.5.20060727: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ - MR Tech Local Install 5.3: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/ - Saved From URL 1.2: http://www.google.com/search?q=Bon%20Echo%20Saved% 20From%20URL - Stylish 0.4: http://userstyles.org/stylish/ - Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.61001: http://tmp.garyr.net/ - Talkback 2.0: http://talkback.mozilla.org/ - Update Channel Selector 1.0.1: http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/u pdatechannel/index.html - userChrome.js 0.7: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3977 35 - XPather 1.0.1: http://xpath.alephzarro.com/ Disabled Extensions: [1] - Free Download Manager plugin 1.0: http://freedownloadmanager.org/ Total Extensions: 17 Installed Themes: [3] - Firefox (default): http://www.mozilla.org/ - Halloween 1.9.5: http://edhume.googlepages.com/home - QuBranch 1.0.20060929: http://www.schrade.com/firefox/themes/ Installed Plugins: (10) - Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 8 - Microsoft® DRM - Mozilla Default Plug-in - OpenOffice.org Plug-in - QuickTime Plug-in 7.1 - RealPlayer Version Plugin - RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) - Shockwave Flash - Shockwave for Director - Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

On my primary account there, I pay the 20 bucks or so it takes to get rid of the ads for a year. That's not a biggie for me - $20/yr for accessible anywhere email with a slick GUI is fine by me. On my non-main accounts, the ads really don't bother me (again, I use Adblock Plus, so I'm really only seeing the text ads).

I also agree that there appears to be an occassional problem or delay with updating the folders when new mail arrives. This isn't an everyday occurence, but it's common enough that I notice it. I use the Yahoo! Companion for Mozilla plugin (I am a very minor code contributor to the project) and it handles my notifications, so it's not a big deal for me. I believe the Yahoo!-created toolbar does the same thing.

Yeah, I must have missed all the National Security Leaks by the NY Times during Clinton's presidency. Funny how you cite the lame PlameGate, but mention nothing about the banking investigations, the approved and legal wiretapping for foreign nationals, ect. ect.
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The Webmail extension for Thunderbird can access Yahoo Mail and also updates regularly. However its so easy to update extensions that I don't mind.

If you want Yahoo-->IMAP, just setup an IMAP server (or an account with a provider like Fastmail) then setup a TB rule to move the Webmail onto your IMAP server.

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Huh. We used Debian on the crappy WYSE clients they give us as first years in grad school and I always wondered why the icon was different and IMHO ugly. The new icon did not cause any confusion at all. While I used Debian on my laptop it was still Firebird and I don't think they were using different icons then.

Theres no need to overreact and rename the damn thing FartingFox or some such. Debian can name it some like Firefox for Debian and be done with it.

If you make a damn community edition and then Mozilla tells you NOT to use the bloody logo. So renaming it really does solve this problem. http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/commu nity-edition-policy.html

However, most of us will agree that this is a stupid problem to begin with.

Changing a desktop icon is trivial. Here is a happy Mozilla page giving you instruction on how to change the titlebar icon and a number of other things. http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#app_ic on Also trivial.

So, Mozilla Foundation exactly why can't Debian change your damn icons (even if I couldn't care about their reasons for doing it) when you even tell us all how to do it. Are you going to start going after users because they choose to change your icon.

Most Debian users will know how to change the damn icons back but a quick google search reveals
http://downloads.mozdev.org/iconpacks/toolsandreso urces/firefox-icon-restorer.xpi
Frankly I liked the old Ships Wheel from Navigator the best.

My personal opinion is that both parties involved should shut up and code and provide people with a great browser and a robust distro, and more people will use both without nearly as much posturing.

Try Hit a Hint, it's a Firefox extension that lets you "click" with the keyboard. You press space (keep it pressed) and numbers (or any keys you configure, I prefer the home-row letters) appear on the clickable elements of the page (check the screenshot). Press the key(s) corresponding to the link you want, and it will "click" when you release the space bar. You can use the Ctrl key at the moment of the release to make it open in a new tab.

Try
http://conkeror.mozdev.org/
emacs keybindings+emacs buffers for firefox.

You really ought to look at the marking menus in Autodesk's Maya, which have been around since before Maya existed back when it was called Alias Power Animator. These marking menus are also hiararchical, and allow for moving up and down the hiararchy easily (which yours don't). Someone even developed it further as a script to include icons (Xumi) Also, there have been a number of pie-based gesture extensions for Firefox for as long as there have been extensions for Firefox, Firebird, etc... One such extension is still being developed/maintained/updated (easygestures).