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  1. Re:Zoom by Richard_at_work · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday

    I just wish there was a way to revert the 'Awesome Bar' to the standard address bar that FF2 had (with no automatic searching, just url matching), because I hate the new functionality. Of course there's a way. There's an extension. :) From that page:

    Note that the underlying autocomplete algorithm is the Firefox 3 algorithm, not the Firefox 2 algorithm. oldbar only affects the presentation of the results. Its the algorithm that I want to disable completely.
  2. Re:Zoom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative · on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday

    I just wish there was a way to revert the 'Awesome Bar' to the standard address bar that FF2 had (with no automatic searching, just url matching), because I hate the new functionality. Of course there's a way. There's an extension. :)
  3. Re:What about the fsync problem? by Daimanta · · Score: 5, Informative · on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482

    This is probably it.

  4. So? by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 1 · on CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts

    You can inject HTML or JavaScript or CSS into any page without having to trick the remote server into doing it for you.

  5. So? by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 1 · on CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts

    You can inject HTML or JavaScript or CSS into any page without having to trick the remote server into doing it for you.

  6. Try it! by Mr.+Jax · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

    Why not try it out: Thunderbird nightlies.

  7. Re:Mozilla calendar? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2, Informative · on Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

    Actualy, you can install the Mozilla Firesomething addon and you will no longer have to worry whether your browser has a reasonable name, as it will never last too long. And do not forget to enable changing the User Agent header for greater fun!

  8. Re:Mozilla calendar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

    Can't they come up with a better name than that? Essential add-on: Firesomething!
    Posted with Mozilla Sunturkey.
  9. Re:Hmm. by RpiMatty · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

    Heres what I did. I selected 1 folder to be available offline. Went to File->Offline->Download/Sync Now, and checked Mail Messages, then hit ok.
    It downloaded the messages for the folder I chose, and I can now read them when I go offline.

    However I see what you are looking for. There is no indication that Thunderbird will automatically sync this folder in the future for me, so it would be a pain to do this every time I wanted to make sure my offline folders were synced up.

    This extension looks interesting. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/1396 but it hasen't been updated in a while. Maybe TB 3 will have the auto sync feature.

  10. Eudora by The+Insane+One · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

    I'm still waiting for the Eudora integration. Eudora, an excellent mail client in my opinion, was abandoned for Penelope which is an open source integration project with Thunderbird.

  11. Re:It's about the plugins by BZ · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast

    For what it's worth, I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438282 on this. One of the folks familiar with the weighting algorithm was interested in seeing the output of pasting this string:

    C=Components;c=C.classes,i=C.interfaces;m="@mozilla.org/";f=c[m+"file/directory_service;1"].getService(i.nsIProperties).get("ProfD",i.nsIFile);f.append("places.sqlite");q=[];s=c[m+"storage/service;1"].getService(i.mozIStorageService).openDatabase(f).createStatement("SELECT input,use_count,url FROM moz_inputhistory JOIN moz_places ON id=place_id WHERE input LIKE
    'sl%'");d=[];a="%0a";g=s.getString;while(s.executeStep())d.push([g(0),g(1),g(2)].join(a));open('data:text/plain,'+d.join(a+a))

    (with all the linebreaks replaced by spaces) in the "Code:" field in the Error Console and clicking "Evaluate". That basically lists the entries in the database that match the string, with their weights, as far as I can tell (from running it myself, and by code inspection).

    > to know that the devs and their fanboys think the awesomebar is awesome,

    My own perspective on this is that it really is, when it works as it should. Which it has for me, so far. I can definitely see how it would really suck when it doesn't rank things right, though, hence wanting to get to the bottom of this....

    > and they're not going to back down on it
    > (embarrassed to admit they were wrong?)

    I think it's more that it does tend to work better than the other for most people, from all indications. Not to say that indications are never wrong, of course. ;)

    > (and, if my guess is right - Boris?

    Good guess!

    On another personal note, I do agree that making the jump from expecting autocomplete to expecting search takes some adjusting and is quite jarring at first. I found that once I got used to it I could get to things faster, but given the wide variety of learning and information processing styles people have, I can certainly see that this might not be a universal outcome. If this setup really just doesn't work for you, I'm sorry... and it might be worth filing a bug to have more control (either via preferences or via an extension) over the exact SQL that gets executed here. It could be an interesting space for extensions to experiment in, and an SQL tweak to do old-style autocomplete ought not be that hard to write, I would think.

    Let me know if you'd rather not file such a bug yourself and I'll do it.

  12. Re:mmm now all makes sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on OEMs Looking to Ubuntu for Netbook Market

    ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

  13. Re:Grr sidebar history by bomfog · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast

    I like the awesome bar's tagging and title search capability, but I think that it should be separated from the typed urls. My gripe is that tagged results aren't grouped together. All this and more should arrive eventually: Bug 395161 - Make it possible to restrict the url bar autocomplete results to bookmarks/history entries and match only url/title/tags and Bug 424557 - Allow AwesomeBar to default search only urls (or history/titles/bookmarks/tags), f'rinstance.
  14. Re:Grr sidebar history by bomfog · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast

    I like the awesome bar's tagging and title search capability, but I think that it should be separated from the typed urls. My gripe is that tagged results aren't grouped together. All this and more should arrive eventually: Bug 395161 - Make it possible to restrict the url bar autocomplete results to bookmarks/history entries and match only url/title/tags and Bug 424557 - Allow AwesomeBar to default search only urls (or history/titles/bookmarks/tags), f'rinstance.
  15. Re:Grr sidebar history by shellbeach · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast

    As someone else said, there are other ways to replicate what you're looking for, but there wasn't any way to get the functionality of the awesome bar. Well, actually, there was:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1722

    Doesn't work with FF3, sadly, but it was a heck of a lot faster than the bloated, somewhat-less-than awesome bar.

    But that's the price of progress, I guess ...
  16. Re:Grr sidebar history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast

    Several Firefox addons exist which temporarily disable various forms of history and other things that leave a trace, without clearing them entirely. For instance, Stealther.

  17. Re:Grr sidebar history by prestomation · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast

    One word, Stealther

  18. Re:Addons by lanc · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast

    The only one you really need is Firesomething - randomly renames your http User-Agent to Firefox, Iceweasel, Hypnokoala, Turbokangaroo, Moonwolf...

  19. Re:Applets failed by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 1 · on Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX
    Whoa, Java applets are largely dead. But the idea you're proposing is very similar. You're talking about replacing a specialist interpreter for javascript (spidermonkey/tamarin), with a managed execution environment (parrot) for languages compiled down to a common intermediate bytecode. That's exactly what .Net does (CLR) and what Java has done (JVM), as I said, for 13 years.

    Ultimately applets never really caught on for a several of reasons, including

    1. machines back in the 90s weren't powerful enough to run an interpreted execution layer with ease. Try running any modern environment like Java, .Net or parrot within a web browser with less than a 1ghz machine with 1/2 a gig of RAM - it won't be pretty.
    2. Microsoft sabotaged Java. Sun successfully sued them for releasing an incompatible version.
    3. Sun's implementation required a ~ 10MB download and then took several seconds to load each time.
    As for applets being ugly, that's largely due to the developer! Flash has had specialist media APIs which Sun are belatedly trying to address with JavaFX.

    As far as accessing the browser DOM, Java applets can via LiveConnect.

    As for speed and size, Sun have been addressing this in their consumer JRE. Further, the LiveConnect Javascript bridge has been rewritten for FireFox 3.

    BTW, I've never seen anything run in an applet beside Java.

    How would you know? It's all compiled down and distributed as the same bytecode - the source language code be java, python, groovy or ruby. Just as would be supplied to parrot - the difference being that javascript is generally distributed in source form rather than bytecode. And by the way, the UI toolkit (AWT/Swing) != Java the platform. It supplements HTML with a cross-platform toolkit, something parrot won't support[1]. But no one's forcing developers to use it; as I've mentioned, Java can directly manipulate the DOM.

    [1] Ok, there's XUL but that will only work in firefox and related browsers.

  20. Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby by Laaserboy · · Score: 1 · on Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX

    Does yours? My browser *does* support Ruby, and Python, and Perl. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3002
  21. Re:Adobe Did by DragonWriter · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology

    They opened Flash so you can write your own interpreter. I guess they're hoping someone else will make it less of a CPU hog.


    Well, no, they opened the VM and a partial JavaScript compiler, which is part of Flash, but not the same thing as Flash.

    I guess they're hoping someone else will make it less of a CPU hog.


    Well, they are still working on it, just letting other people work on (and use) some components of it as well. Its not like Adobe stopped being involved in Tamarin once they gave it to Mozilla.
  22. Re:Adobe Did by DragonWriter · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology

    They opened Flash so you can write your own interpreter. I guess they're hoping someone else will make it less of a CPU hog.


    Well, no, they opened the VM and a partial JavaScript compiler, which is part of Flash, but not the same thing as Flash.

    I guess they're hoping someone else will make it less of a CPU hog.


    Well, they are still working on it, just letting other people work on (and use) some components of it as well. Its not like Adobe stopped being involved in Tamarin once they gave it to Mozilla.
  23. 1995 called, they want their article back! by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX
    Sun Microsystems launched this idea around 13 years ago... Java applets.

    Though Java-centric in nature, the JVM provides a secure sandboxed environment to host numerous languages including Ruby, Python, Lisp and even JavaScript. Throw in Groovy and Scala for home-grown alternatives.

    Thanks to the efforts of IcedTea (principally funded by RedHat) and others, Java 6 will be fully GPL by the end of the year.

  24. Re:Look at ol' MS by Earered · · Score: 1 · on Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX

    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breaking_the_grip_JS_has_on_the_DOM

  25. Re:Firefox is starting to give me the shits by kbrosnan · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    For current versions http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ and if you really need something pre 2.0 then use ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

  26. Re:Firefox is starting to give me the shits by kbrosnan · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    For current versions http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ and if you really need something pre 2.0 then use ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

  27. Re:Actual Release Notes by Minwee · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Sadly, those days are as gone as the days when you could freely check out the source code from CVS, check the status of up-to-the-minute builds and build the complete application on your own.

    Which is to say they're not gone at all.

  28. Re:Actual Release Notes by Minwee · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Sadly, those days are as gone as the days when you could freely check out the source code from CVS, check the status of up-to-the-minute builds and build the complete application on your own.

    Which is to say they're not gone at all.

  29. Re:Actual Release Notes by Minwee · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Sadly, those days are as gone as the days when you could freely check out the source code from CVS, check the status of up-to-the-minute builds and build the complete application on your own.

    Which is to say they're not gone at all.

  30. Re:ooh-ooh-ooh where is my individual tab threadin by mmortal03 · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Check this bug report out, as I think it is the cause of the behavior that you (and I) have been experiencing: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435865

  31. Re:Old Look? by Mozk · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Sure, but when you're opening a new tab, you're more than likely going to be typing in an address, so you're hands would already be on the keyboard. Your handing may differ, but for me it's my palm on Ctrl and my index/middle finger on T, so it's more like one keypress. Also (considering Fitts's Law) it's probably easier to do that than move the mouse to a 30ish pixel^2 button.

    But then again I know that it's hard to change interfaces when you're used to the older one. In fact I used to have that button too. But I also extremely dislike the new "awesomebar".

    Here's my skin/layout just for info. It's a custom Stylish stylesheet (smoother than image shows), but if you're interested I can send it.

  32. Re:Actual Release Notes by jasampler · · Score: 0 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2
    There're no differences in "What's New" between the release notes for 3.0rc1 and those for 3.0rc2, but I found differences in the "Known Issues" section between these two versions:

    New issues for All systems:
    • The IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters covers the "Add Bookmark" panel. Users can use IME for input in the Library window by selecting "Organize Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu (bug 433340)
    • Some users who have customized toolbars may need to reset them if they are missing the Back and Forward buttons (bug 426026)
    • Some Web pages (such as mlb.com) do not properly detect if Silverlight is installed and will not function properly (bug 432371)

    New issues for Mac OS X:
    • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
    • If you are using IPv6 from a network location that doesn't support IPv6 routing your DNS lookups may be very slow. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true as a workaround (bug 417689)

    New issues for Linux and Unix:
    • Users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) may find that Firefox always starts in "Offline" mode. Toggle File > Work Offline as a work around (bug 424626)

    Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
    • If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
    • Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)

  33. Re:Actual Release Notes by jasampler · · Score: 0 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2
    There're no differences in "What's New" between the release notes for 3.0rc1 and those for 3.0rc2, but I found differences in the "Known Issues" section between these two versions:

    New issues for All systems:
    • The IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters covers the "Add Bookmark" panel. Users can use IME for input in the Library window by selecting "Organize Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu (bug 433340)
    • Some users who have customized toolbars may need to reset them if they are missing the Back and Forward buttons (bug 426026)
    • Some Web pages (such as mlb.com) do not properly detect if Silverlight is installed and will not function properly (bug 432371)

    New issues for Mac OS X:
    • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
    • If you are using IPv6 from a network location that doesn't support IPv6 routing your DNS lookups may be very slow. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true as a workaround (bug 417689)

    New issues for Linux and Unix:
    • Users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) may find that Firefox always starts in "Offline" mode. Toggle File > Work Offline as a work around (bug 424626)

    Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
    • If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
    • Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)

  34. Re:Actual Release Notes by jasampler · · Score: 0 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2
    There're no differences in "What's New" between the release notes for 3.0rc1 and those for 3.0rc2, but I found differences in the "Known Issues" section between these two versions:

    New issues for All systems:
    • The IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters covers the "Add Bookmark" panel. Users can use IME for input in the Library window by selecting "Organize Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu (bug 433340)
    • Some users who have customized toolbars may need to reset them if they are missing the Back and Forward buttons (bug 426026)
    • Some Web pages (such as mlb.com) do not properly detect if Silverlight is installed and will not function properly (bug 432371)

    New issues for Mac OS X:
    • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
    • If you are using IPv6 from a network location that doesn't support IPv6 routing your DNS lookups may be very slow. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true as a workaround (bug 417689)

    New issues for Linux and Unix:
    • Users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) may find that Firefox always starts in "Offline" mode. Toggle File > Work Offline as a work around (bug 424626)

    Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
    • If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
    • Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)

  35. Re:Actual Release Notes by jasampler · · Score: 0 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2
    There're no differences in "What's New" between the release notes for 3.0rc1 and those for 3.0rc2, but I found differences in the "Known Issues" section between these two versions:

    New issues for All systems:
    • The IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters covers the "Add Bookmark" panel. Users can use IME for input in the Library window by selecting "Organize Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu (bug 433340)
    • Some users who have customized toolbars may need to reset them if they are missing the Back and Forward buttons (bug 426026)
    • Some Web pages (such as mlb.com) do not properly detect if Silverlight is installed and will not function properly (bug 432371)

    New issues for Mac OS X:
    • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
    • If you are using IPv6 from a network location that doesn't support IPv6 routing your DNS lookups may be very slow. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true as a workaround (bug 417689)

    New issues for Linux and Unix:
    • Users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) may find that Firefox always starts in "Offline" mode. Toggle File > Work Offline as a work around (bug 424626)

    Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
    • If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
    • Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)

  36. Re:Actual Release Notes by jasampler · · Score: 0 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2
    There're no differences in "What's New" between the release notes for 3.0rc1 and those for 3.0rc2, but I found differences in the "Known Issues" section between these two versions:

    New issues for All systems:
    • The IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters covers the "Add Bookmark" panel. Users can use IME for input in the Library window by selecting "Organize Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu (bug 433340)
    • Some users who have customized toolbars may need to reset them if they are missing the Back and Forward buttons (bug 426026)
    • Some Web pages (such as mlb.com) do not properly detect if Silverlight is installed and will not function properly (bug 432371)

    New issues for Mac OS X:
    • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
    • If you are using IPv6 from a network location that doesn't support IPv6 routing your DNS lookups may be very slow. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true as a workaround (bug 417689)

    New issues for Linux and Unix:
    • Users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) may find that Firefox always starts in "Offline" mode. Toggle File > Work Offline as a work around (bug 424626)

    Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
    • If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
    • Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)

  37. Re:Actual Release Notes by jasampler · · Score: 0 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2
    There're no differences in "What's New" between the release notes for 3.0rc1 and those for 3.0rc2, but I found differences in the "Known Issues" section between these two versions:

    New issues for All systems:
    • The IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters covers the "Add Bookmark" panel. Users can use IME for input in the Library window by selecting "Organize Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu (bug 433340)
    • Some users who have customized toolbars may need to reset them if they are missing the Back and Forward buttons (bug 426026)
    • Some Web pages (such as mlb.com) do not properly detect if Silverlight is installed and will not function properly (bug 432371)

    New issues for Mac OS X:
    • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
    • If you are using IPv6 from a network location that doesn't support IPv6 routing your DNS lookups may be very slow. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true as a workaround (bug 417689)

    New issues for Linux and Unix:
    • Users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) may find that Firefox always starts in "Offline" mode. Toggle File > Work Offline as a work around (bug 424626)

    Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
    • If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
    • Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)

  38. Re:Actual Release Notes by jasampler · · Score: 0 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2
    There're no differences in "What's New" between the release notes for 3.0rc1 and those for 3.0rc2, but I found differences in the "Known Issues" section between these two versions:

    New issues for All systems:
    • The IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters covers the "Add Bookmark" panel. Users can use IME for input in the Library window by selecting "Organize Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu (bug 433340)
    • Some users who have customized toolbars may need to reset them if they are missing the Back and Forward buttons (bug 426026)
    • Some Web pages (such as mlb.com) do not properly detect if Silverlight is installed and will not function properly (bug 432371)

    New issues for Mac OS X:
    • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
    • If you are using IPv6 from a network location that doesn't support IPv6 routing your DNS lookups may be very slow. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true as a workaround (bug 417689)

    New issues for Linux and Unix:
    • Users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) may find that Firefox always starts in "Offline" mode. Toggle File > Work Offline as a work around (bug 424626)

    Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
    • If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
    • Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)

  39. Home page has RC link... by rklrkl · · Score: 5, Informative · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Remember the good-old days when Mozilla (and Firefox) release notes actually talked about bugs fixed, features introduced, and interesting things? When each version actually informed you about what had changed? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc2/releasenotes/ seems fairly reasonable to me. Granted, the differences between RC1 and RC2 aren't flagged (because virtually nothing but some blocker bugs were the changes between the two), but they *did* flag "Improved in Beta 5" in the equivalent Beta 5 release notes.

    Going to mozilla.org (or .com) and trying to find betas is now impossible. No, really... there are no links to non-release versions. Oh come on! How hard did you bother reading the home page? What's New on the right hand side has a "Firefox 3 Sneak Peak" link for goodness' sake! And even if you drifted to mozilla.org's home page instead, guess what? Developer News on the right hand side announces the RC2 release as I speak. You sir, are either one lazy so-and-so or just a total troll!

    I miss the time when Mozilla was a user-friendly organization, when everything was public and *easy to find*. I miss the time when people actually made the effort to check the current state of Web sites before slagging them off. Everything related to Mozilla (bar a few closed security bugs, which are opened once the fix is published) is very public and trivially easy to find. It's a shame that some people just don't think before they post.
  40. Home page has RC link... by rklrkl · · Score: 5, Informative · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Remember the good-old days when Mozilla (and Firefox) release notes actually talked about bugs fixed, features introduced, and interesting things? When each version actually informed you about what had changed? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc2/releasenotes/ seems fairly reasonable to me. Granted, the differences between RC1 and RC2 aren't flagged (because virtually nothing but some blocker bugs were the changes between the two), but they *did* flag "Improved in Beta 5" in the equivalent Beta 5 release notes.

    Going to mozilla.org (or .com) and trying to find betas is now impossible. No, really... there are no links to non-release versions. Oh come on! How hard did you bother reading the home page? What's New on the right hand side has a "Firefox 3 Sneak Peak" link for goodness' sake! And even if you drifted to mozilla.org's home page instead, guess what? Developer News on the right hand side announces the RC2 release as I speak. You sir, are either one lazy so-and-so or just a total troll!

    I miss the time when Mozilla was a user-friendly organization, when everything was public and *easy to find*. I miss the time when people actually made the effort to check the current state of Web sites before slagging them off. Everything related to Mozilla (bar a few closed security bugs, which are opened once the fix is published) is very public and trivially easy to find. It's a shame that some people just don't think before they post.
  41. Re:Please .... by ftobin · · Score: 1 · on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters

    I just fell in love with the Firefox extension repagination, which allows someone to see all of the pages concatenated together. It uses some heuristics to determine how to find the next page, but it works well, even on the story's site (except the comments are repeated each time). No longer will I have to click click click through broken-up stories.

  42. Re:Firefox is starting to give me the shits by bmorency · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Now, maybe you meant that Firefox doesn't offer a feature specially designed for storing the xpi files somewhere to be reinstalled. I don't think there's enough demand to merit that enhancement being added. Sounds like a reasonable idea for an extension, though. :) There is an extension that will do that. It's called FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension). You can backup everything about your profile. You can pick and choose what you want backed up and it will schedule backups also. It will backup your extensions as an XPI file so you can install them later. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=febe&cat=all
  43. Re:Please .... by DrMaurer · · Score: 4, Informative · on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters

    Firefox Repagination Add-On works pretty well.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2099

  44. Re:Actual Release Notes by GarfBond · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2
    User-friendly means not inundating the AOL/myspace crowd with bugzilla links and technical jargon. User-friendly means presenting those users with the officially supported release versions instead of the developer targeted nightlies, alphas, betas, or RCs.

    I don't think your perception of user-friendly means what you think it does. Perhaps what you're looking for is "developer-friendly" or "obsessive geek friendly," in which case you might be better off going to http://developer.mozilla.org

  45. Re:Ouch by Janos421 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Covert BT Phorm Trial Report Leaked

    The browsed pages do not exist, so you never download pictures or js files. It's very easy for an ISP to filter these requests, they can filter the HTTP response code.
    Two FF exntensions generate fake queries on search segines to pollute the collected data (at search engine level, but it also pollute ISP data). SquiggleSR and TrackMeNot. Notice that the former also clicks on non-sponsored results and may deceive cookie tracking.

  46. Re:Ouch by Janos421 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Covert BT Phorm Trial Report Leaked

    The browsed pages do not exist, so you never download pictures or js files. It's very easy for an ISP to filter these requests, they can filter the HTTP response code.
    Two FF exntensions generate fake queries on search segines to pollute the collected data (at search engine level, but it also pollute ISP data). SquiggleSR and TrackMeNot. Notice that the former also clicks on non-sponsored results and may deceive cookie tracking.

  47. Re:Actual Release Notes by Cuga · · Score: 2, Informative · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2008-05-27

  48. Re:But can it... by JustinOpinion · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Good trick.

    Note that in Firefox 3 you can drag tabs between Windows. So you can create a new Window and toss the tab you want into it.

    You can also right-click on links and go "Open Link in New Window".

    There are lots of tab-managing add-ons, and I think some of them allow you to open a tab as a new window. (E.g. this one, although it hasn't been updated to FF3 yet... or this one.)

  49. Re:But can it... by JustinOpinion · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Good trick.

    Note that in Firefox 3 you can drag tabs between Windows. So you can create a new Window and toss the tab you want into it.

    You can also right-click on links and go "Open Link in New Window".

    There are lots of tab-managing add-ons, and I think some of them allow you to open a tab as a new window. (E.g. this one, although it hasn't been updated to FF3 yet... or this one.)

  50. Re:Firefox is starting to give me the shits by JustinOpinion · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

    Huh? Are you using the same "Firefox" as me?

    1. What do you mean? Yes, Firefox 3 isn't compatible with (some) Firefox 2 extensions. But then again, Firefox 3 is a whole new version... and it's still at release-candidate level. I've never had extensions break during an incremental upgrade, for instance. (If they become marked as incompatible, that's the fault of the extension author, who should have set compatibility as 2.* or whatever.)

    2. I've never seen that. Normally it just downloads the incremental update and applies it on the next restart.

    3. Well many of us happen to like the new functionality of the combined address-bar/search-bar. However, it's trivial to return to the old-style behavior if that's what you want (e.g. this). The same is true of most other changes. Firefox is very customizable.

    4. Sorry to hear that it's unstable on your system. On the systems I use, Firefox 3 has been decidedly more stable than Firefox 2. Faster, too. From various things I've read, it sounds like the typical experience is that Firefox 3 is faster, more stable, and more robust than Firefox 2. But, as always, your mileage may vary.

    5. Huh? When you try to exit, there is a single confirmation box, which can be disabled. It doesn't pop up "a thousand confirmations". Exaggerate much?

    6. Huh? I've never had to re-download extensions when upgrading Firefox (even when installing a whole new version). The only time extensions re-download is when a new version of the extension is available. But... how exactly do you propose to get the new version without downloading it?

    I'm sorry that you seem to be having troubles with Firefox. From what I can tell, this isn't a typical experience. Also, note that you're most welcome to keep using older versions if they suit you better.