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There's always Firefox's IE Tab @ http://ietab.mozdev.org/, y'know...

I think that should do for whatever you need to do in IE. ;-)

http://useragentswitcher.mozdev.org/

set to os x :-D

It's been said before, but I'll link you to it again. IETab for Firefox will allow users to register sites to use (or open arbitrary tabs) using IE. It's still using IE to visit those sites (through the magic of imbedding) but at least you get your users to get used to Firefox. Then just install cards extension and show them adblock and you may find them as converts. http://ietab.mozdev.org/

Fasterfox makes firefox load pages more quickly through various methods.
The Firefox Tweak Guide has many options for about:config and other tips for improving your specific experience.
Firefox Preloader will make Firefox load more quickly by making Firefox do the same thing Internet Explorer does. Firefox will use system resources before being specifically called. The application will remain resident in memory like IE does, waiting for you to click the little fox. In this way, IE loads faster but slows overall system performance.
How to use UPX to speed it up a little is what this article can tell you. Probably not the best way to go about it, but I have implemented this method on my HTPC.

It is VERY important to realize that the few seconds you wait around for the initial loading of Firefox are quickly surpassed by the lag you experience while using Microsoft's Explorer. Firefox ignores many advertisements right off the showroom floor, but can be configured to show NEARLY NO ADS AT ALL. FlashBlock, AdBlock, and NoScript will make your browsing much faster and cleaner.

Using Firefox, especially with these and other add-ons, will make your browsing incredibly secure. Explorer is left in the dust in comparison.

So the trade-off you seem to have made is this: A few seconds at load time in exhange for a combined several minutes waiting for ads to be displayed, just so you can fall victim to the shiny! new! IE exploit that seems to get barfed all over Slashdot once a week. This while using an underdeveloped, overpriced, practically featureless browser that has no database of expansions. Unless you are using the Vista beta (7 beta) you aren't even using tabs! Do you choose to commut on a horse? HOW DID YOU EVER SURVIVE THE PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION? BAH! Why did I bother?

you can use ietab to embed ie into firefox and use it when you wish or automatically use it when you go to some sites like windowsupdate or other custom sites

For those who've been watching livehttpehaders while looking at Yahoo! Mail Beta would have noticed something cool and awesome. Here's a snip from my dump.

http://us.f318.mail.yahoo.com/ws/mail/v1/soap?m=Ge tMessage&appid=...&wssid=...

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/en velope/"
...
<m:GetMessage xmlns:m="urn:yahoo:ymws"><;fid>Inbox</fid>...

The client to server protocol is SOAP and pretty much should be accessible with a standard soap library (I think). For those who all love GMail's once-quirky and now familiar features, this could mean modding opportunities to make it behave like gmail (think gmailui for it). And for those who want an outlook in a browser, there'll always be the current layout. The system's a bit slow still, but I think that is more due to the number of individual requests skyrocketing rather than something inherent to it. It would be really painful to use on say, something like a high latency VSAT trickle (like I ran into during my Himalayan trek), but for most people on broadband with a decent box, this should be a leap above the classic interface.

I'm just waiting for YDN to post the WSDL for the mail api so that I can start publishing my own clients (like one with *threading*) for Yahoo!. Though most probably, I'd rather write a Mozilla yahoo:// protocol for mail, mainly because the current API almost maps into IMAP. (I do work for Yahoo! and have done enough funky things with the new api)

And lastly, nobody seems to have noticed the anti-phishing seal on the new Beta login pages. I wouldn't have known it had been released if it weren't for the ycoolthing article.

I bet they are switching IP's everytime Google gets wise and blocks them.

The script is configured to have the search term (XXX) in the URL as in "http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?Gw=XXX" and you can add it to your Firefox search toobar.

If you are concerned that they may be keeping logs in spite of their claims (probably unverifiable short of access to their servers) you are probably better off with TOR or Torpark which (as others have mentioned elsewhere) probably provide the best anonymization. The slowness factor is a concern, so for selective browsing turn TOR on and off with Torbutton or SwitchProxy FF add-ons.

On second thought, for your purpose, TOR is probably over-kill. If you are only concerned about Google keeping search results, just running your search through a proxy and disabling cookies should keep G from having any identifiable information on you...

To me, one of the biggest threats to privacy is google's logging of what I search for.

Try the Scroogle. It returns Google's results without ads and other features provided Google and they don't save search results. And you can even add the scraper to your Firefox search bar...

I bet there is such an extension but I'd rather not clutter the GUI any more.
Up-Left-Up mouse gesture in MozGest fulfills the function well enough :)

Yeah, I tell people that I hate using right handed pencils.....Ned Flanders rules!

per the Question:
Use FireFox for your browser:
http://geckotip.mozdev.org/index.html

For your Palm (well, your computer kind):
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities /LeftScroll-7380.shtml

Layne

That sucks.

Years ago, I took English Lit II as part of a 18+ credit load. It was at 7:30am, I was habitually late or absent, but I made a point of stopping in during office hours. The prof knew me, knew I knew what I was talking about, knew I read up, and did well on the tests. I'm sure I got at least a B. Maybe an A. And with the six-and-fail rule, I'd have an F.

Years later but years ago, I took a DB class. The prof, outside of class, was pretty OK. I've dealt with some of the organizations he's worked with before getting his Ph.D. and they still think highly of him. But that class was worthless. I knew less about databases at the end of it than at the beginning. I learned more about databases in a short course on Oracle set up for staff. Literally, he gave the same lecture (about how he wrote databases for a hospital in Indianapolis) at least four times during the semester. Perhaps more. Required class, though, so there was a group of people I took classes with, and they were all in it with me, and they all started skipping with me. We passed. We went on to the next classes. And with a six-and-fail rule, we'd all have Fs.
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You're right, I do have Flash player installed. But I also have the excellent Flashblock plugin installed. I don't even have Google included in the "allow by default" list.

Point taken, however - I wasn't considering plugins.

A "sheep?" I'm a sheep for some reason because I use a browser that packs more features than Firefox, doesn't require extensions to get them, and still manages to use half as much memory and ship in a smaller installer filesize?

"More features"? Is this about counting? I want a browser that has the set of features that I want to use. I don't really care if there's one that has "more" features than the one I use, or even if a small number of the ones I use are included in that list.

I never said the pen wasn't a nice place to be if you don't want to bother with the troubles inherent to freedom, I merely pointed out the fact that it was fenced in. Firefox's main appeal is that if a small constituent of users wants something, and are willing to put in the effort, they can have it. This leads to innovation, and that's good for everyone. Of course extension writers should copy the functionality that they like from other browsers into Firefox extensions: no one is claiming that Firefox thought of everything first, only that if we want something, we can have it.

My point is that the feature of extensibility is something that Firefox has hands down over the compeititon, and for me that's a selling point.

Yes, it does. Next.

Oh, and I checked (yes, I do have it (and IE7) installed), it seems Opera does have similar functionality to ConQuery (though you can't install Mycroft search plugins). Beyond that, Opera does not (that I can find) have similar functionality to any of the plugins I listed.

Shouldn't you be off cloning Opera's features and adding them to the bloated, memory-leaking Firefox codebase?

Ooh, you got me there. I think I'll go off into a corner and cry for a while. Personally I've never had any issues with memory leaks or sluggishness.

The only problem I have with the current Linux Flash is that the sound is out of sync with the picture. This makes using Google Video or You Tube a bit a hassle. So my question is

Has the sound synchronization problem been fixed?

On a side note, if you don't like flash ads with screaming sound, just install Flash Block.

But install Firefox first

PrefBar has one too, but I think its UA list is outdated. Does anyone have a full list of UA so I can change my list?

Firefox has a tray app? Mozilla had one but I haven't found a Firefox one. Please link me a URL if you know how to install this because that's one app I use often enough to benefit from a resident quickload!

(In development) -Turbo option for Firefox and Thunderbird. MinimizeToTray implements this popular feature from the Mozilla application suite. Have a Firefox tray icon and menu always available, even if no browser window is open. Or have Thunderbird launch directly into the tray only to notify you if you receive mail.

Unneccesarily memory-resident apps are a big problem in the Windows world. Have you seen a new Dell machine the first time it is turned on?

Security:

Take these two graphs for example - http://secunia.com/graph/?type=cri&period=2005&pro d=11
and http://secunia.com/graph/?type=cri&period=2005&pro d=4227

In short, you'll notice that although Firefox suffered more vulnerabilities, the percentage of 'severe' flaws are noticeably lower than those of IE. In other words, a bug which could expose browser history is far less significant than one which allows arbitrary code execution.

Oh, and not to mention the extensive library of browser extensions Firefox has for it. Adblock plus for example (http://adblockplus.org/) - you never have to see ads again! In fact, if you really can't be parted from your beloved IE, there's even a "View in IE" extension - http://ieview.mozdev.org/

In other words, Firefox is the "dogs bullocks", as we say in the UK. Get involved!

It already exists.

take a look. That's some of my code, there are strings there that load Array in one shot without any parsing. Refer to my earlier posts.

Thank you for your 'attention'.

I find the entire attitude of the poster's blurb a perfect summary of the prevailing attitude here at /. "I'm inconvenienced" "I have to buy toilettries everytime I take a trip" "Another anal probe" "My rights of Do-What-I-Please are being trampled on" Amazing that when something is done about a possible attack, people find a way to complain. Suck it up, or find another means of travel. Why do you need /. to ask this question? Can you not take any personal responsibility to determine the best course of action after analyzing the options? What next? "Dear /. - should I wear the black Hope 2006 t-shirt today or the Lara Croft: Revelations E3 limited collector's shirt? Take control of your life and your reactions to misfortunes or other occurences. Tocome on /. and complain with a thinly-veiled question that masks your discomfort becasue some people's lives may have been saved is sad and pathetic.
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http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=scroo gle.org&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Sea rch

Firefox search engine plugin for Scroogle.

10 dollars a day from google ads, geez that must pay for electricity for one server. I hope you are making more with the annoying banner ads I filter out using adblock

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

errrr never mind...

I asked a Macromedia/Adobe Flash Evangelist recently why they have not yet implemented a toggle for flash like the Firefox Extension, so that users could chose to turn flash on for one page and off for another (or possibly even more granular if you wished). He told me flat out "because then our customers wouldn't like it because it would be too easy for you to avoid their ads. We want you to have a "one or the other" choice -- either all Flash or none. We think the quality of good/userful/entertaining flash out there is what makes Flash an attractive advertizing platform. If you could pick and choose what you saw, Flash would be just another rich media option on the web."

I found his honesty refreshing. And I see his point -- if you could easily pick and chose flash (as I do with the FF Flashblock extension) you'd probably never see a flash ad. I was surfing on a friends computer (on IE even) and his web experience SUCKS. Flash ads everywhere, they make noise without permission, they are ...ummm...FLASHY. And irritating. I honestly don't know how people get around with flash enabled all the time. For me if the choice is as he put it -- either no flash, or flash with no control over it, I'll take no flash.

It's silly for us to get into the arguement over whether or not content on the web should be free or supported by advertisments, because neither of us will affect the other's opinion. I don't block every ad, but if one annoys me, I do block it. I think the ad companies have the right to try to show me ads, and I have the right to try to block the ones that annoy me. So for me, I'll never consider flash an option until users have the ability to selectively choose what pages are allowed to run flash, and which flash apps are allowed to run on a given page.

Also for everyone in my company, because I block .swf at the router

You sir, need to install FlashBlock http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

All flash animations appear as a blank box with a play button. Only start the ones you want. I recommend adding the flashblock button to the top of your browser so you can easily whitelist pages.

I see a bright future for flashblock. Without it I probably could not browse the web at all on this dial-up connection.

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I'm waiting for Firefox 2.0 before I start spell-checking all my /. posts.

Mosex + Emacs + Flyspell.

Not that I always use it, obviously, especially for quickie posts; but when I want to be careful, it's a great combo.

The numberedlinks on mozdev is legitimate and "trojan"-free. As others have said, you have to open the attachment in an e-mail for the evil one to work.

AFAIK, as long as you get your attachments from the Get More Extensions link (which most people that I know do), then you should be safe.

> This is an Outlook/IE "virus"

No, it's a regular Firefox extension hosted on the official mozdev.org site. See http://numberedlinks.mozdev.org/

I love how fruity the left land of silliness is! How about this for the importance of the Electoral college? Make the State Senates vote for the US Senators; that would put a bee in their bonnet!
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1. Firefox with popup blocker

Here are the pieces you will need.

Get Firefox: http://mozilla.com/

Install Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

Then install the following greasemonkey scripts:
MySpace Tag Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/746
MySpace Custom Style Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/997
MySpace Ad Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/3719

It's pretty simple to search on Mozilla's site, but here is the add-ons page, and here's its mozdev site.

There's an engine available for it, if you don't like toolbars.

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=clust y&sherlock=yes&opensearch=&submitform=Search

2) Alternatively, you could install FlashBlock and have the option of seeing the Flash you do want, like homestarrunner.com.

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ is the one you want; replaces flash content with a play button.

Strangely enough, the last popup I got was at http://nvuext.mozdev.org/.

1. Use Mozilla Firefox.
2. Uninstall Flash, you don't need that proprietary junk, 99% of all flash animations are ads/banners anyways.
3. Maybe you want to "block loading of images from third-party sites".
4. Use the Adblock extension for Firefox, you can get it at http://adblock.mozdev.org/ and get some rules for it.
5. Use a more secure operating system

1. Use Mozilla Firefox.
2. Uninstall Flash, you don't need that proprietary junk, 99% of all flash animations are ads/banners anyways.
3. Maybe you want to "block loading of images from third-party sites".
4. Use the Adblock extension for Firefox, you can get it at http://adblock.mozdev.org/ and get some rules for it.
5. Use a more secure operating system.

I hate Myspace, it is a website that caters to retards, it is so dumb.

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

No ads, no problems.

Get the adblock extension for Firefox.
http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Disable Java.
Disable JavaScript.
Uninstall Flash (99% is used for banners and ads).
Maybe select the option to not download images from third-party sites.

user_pref("keyconfig.main.xxx_key__Zoom Images In", "alt][=][][openUILinkIn('javascript:(function(){ function zoomImage(image, amt) { if(image.initialHeight == null) { /* avoid accumulating integer-rounding error */ image.initialHeight=image.height; image.initialWidth=image.width; image.scalingFactor=1; } image.scalingFactor*=amt; image.width=image.scalingFactor*image.initialWidth ; image.height=image.scalingFactor*image.initialHeig ht; } var i,L=document.images.length; for (i=0;i<L;++i) zoomImage(document.images[i], 2); if (!L) alert(%22This page contains no images.%22); })();', 'current');][");
user_pref("keyconfig.main.xxx_ke y__Zoom Images Out", "alt][-][][openUILinkIn('javascript:(function(){ function zoomImage(image, amt) { if(image.initialHeight == null) { /* avoid accumulating integer-rounding error */ image.initialHeight=image.height; image.initialWidth=image.width; image.scalingFactor=1; } image.scalingFactor*=amt; image.width=image.scalingFactor*image.initialWidth ; image.height=image.scalingFactor*image.initialHeig ht; } var i,L=document.images.length; for (i=0;i<L;++i) zoomImage(document.images[i],.5); if (!L) alert(%22This page contains no images.%22); })();', 'current');][");

For me, all Flash sites look exactly the same: Click here to download plugin.

For me, all Flash sites look exactly the same, too: a little clickable "Play" arrow. If I want the content, I click it; I leave it blocked if (as in most cases) it's an advertisement.

there are adverts on tomshardware ? LOL

[...] so I can use firefox instead?

ietab? user agent switcher?

All hail Cookie Button. Install from addons. I also prefer to complement it with Cookie Button in the status bar

Use a software to block the ads. I had no problems with Adblock with FilterSet.G in Mozilla v1.7.13 in Windows and Linux. :)

Shutting stuff down in order to work around a bug is a horrible and very annoying kludge.

The only way to make the cellophane move is to envelop it with gold foil? Gold-plated wings? Makes no sense ...
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