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I'd say give it a try. I'm not going to say it's perfect but if I needed to use a calendar system on my personal machine it is 'good enough' for me. Here's some screenshots.

Lightning works for sending invites for meetings. It's an add-on to thunderbird for email-related calendaring. For example, last summer at my part time job I was able to receive and send meeting requests from my boss who uses outlook. There's also sunbird, which is more heavy-weight then lightning. Sunbird's a standalone calendar app.

I'm not sure how well they do with exchange, but they are able to work with Apple's iCal, since they both use the same file format. It's a shame that Windows has such a dominance. There'd be so many other options if it didn't have to be a Microsoft solution. :/

Oh, and I should note that lightning improved greatly from Spring 2007 to the summer. Before then, it was really not helpful. Being able to receive/send invites makes it usable for people who only occasionally need to set up meetings. They may not be there yet, but Lightning and Sunbird are worthy of watching. They seem to be constantly improving. It's especially nice having the same basic interface when switching between Windows, Linux etc.

Lightning works for sending invites for meetings. It's an add-on to thunderbird for email-related calendaring. For example, last summer at my part time job I was able to receive and send meeting requests from my boss who uses outlook. There's also sunbird, which is more heavy-weight then lightning. Sunbird's a standalone calendar app.

I'm not sure how well they do with exchange, but they are able to work with Apple's iCal, since they both use the same file format. It's a shame that Windows has such a dominance. There'd be so many other options if it didn't have to be a Microsoft solution. :/

Oh, and I should note that lightning improved greatly from Spring 2007 to the summer. Before then, it was really not helpful. Being able to receive/send invites makes it usable for people who only occasionally need to set up meetings. They may not be there yet, but Lightning and Sunbird are worthy of watching. They seem to be constantly improving. It's especially nice having the same basic interface when switching between Windows, Linux etc.

not even 2 1/2 years. according to their roadmap, 2 will be EOL'd 6 months after the release of 3, same as it was for the transition from 1.0 to 1.5 and 1.5 to 2.0.

You could try running Portable Firefox with KeyScrambler from a thumb drive. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3383

Better solution: don't use Safari.

This browser is the root of numerous OS X exploits, and it is, overall, not a good browser. Besides, did you really need your text blurred that much?

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.14&os=osx&lang=en-US

Your email is still on their server, if they give you a millions options it costs them lots of money, and at heart they are still a company, if you want more customisation that gmail offers, you can always use POP/IMAP (i think the same goes for hotmail) and do the processing on your side (that way they dont really care about how much you customise the interface).

Your email is still on their server, if they give you a millions options it costs them lots of money, and at heart they are still a company, if you want more customisation that gmail offers, you can always use POP/IMAP (i think the same goes for hotmail) and do the processing on your side (that way they dont really care about how much you customise the interface).

For those who use FlashBlock extension for Mozilla's Web browsers, you need to click on top right corner unshown Flash section or allow Flash or else the Web site looks weird (be sure to report it too so its Web staff can fix it).

Here is what it looks like when Flash is blocked: screen shot.

It can be done with a Greasemonkey script in Firefox. If anyone cares enough to write one please upload it for others to use. It seems pretty easy to fix in greasemonkey since all you want to do is replace the buttons with text links.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

It's called Hit-a-Hint and it's really good. You hold the spacebar down and all the links that are currently visible get allocated a number. When you key in that number and release the spacebar it follows the link. It also works with form elements which is nice. Flash is still a pain to use though.

I ask because JAWS is absurdly expensive, and pretty much, beyond basic standards compliance, I'm not going to write for the idiosyncrasies of a client I can't test with (isn't free).

There is an extension for Firefox that simulates what screen reader users experience.

If you are using Firefox, you might like Flashblock:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/

Flash objects become nice friendly play buttons that you activate only when you choose. There is even a whitelist if there are sites that you visit just for their flash content.

Probably because they see JavaScript, bytecode and virtual machine all in the same sentence. Put two and two together and you end up with five.

Bah, I preferred my wild conspiracy theories. Anyway, if you needed another good reason to install NoScript... :)

Are they doing the UI in canvas 3D?

The moz key bindings still work so I doubt they simply embedded Gecko. Perhaps a JIT (tamarin) would make the UI usable?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5239 Like this?

The oldbar addon gets you back to a clean list: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

ErrorZilla mods the firefox error page to give options for the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, and Coral Cache.

For dark web browsing, install the Web developer toolbar. Select Disable->Page colors.
In the Firefox preferences: Content->Colors, you can set the default background and text colors.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

PS: If you use GNOME, Firefox will reuse the GNOME color scheme, so set it to e.g. "High contrast inverse".

not the referrer field. referrer is used to identify which page linked to the visited page; not who visited. and I use RefControl just because I am a paranoid. but I see your point.

...and this is a highly popular piece of OSS on Windows... Thunderbird and getting SMTP logs.

An SMTP server was giving me a vague error... I couldn't send mail because of it, but because I couldn't see any of the events leading up to it, just the last response, I was stuck.

So I figured I would turn on logging of commands sent/retrieved and check those out.

Best option: If you think it would be a configuration option in the UI - think again. It's how it should be, but it's not.
Next best option: If you think it would be a configuration option in Tools > Options... > |Advanced| > General > [config editor...] (hideous in its own right) - think again.
Next best option: If you think it would be a configuration option involving opening a .ini file, or even an XML file, using notepad - think again.
Next best option: If you think it was a command-line parameter (that you could, arguably, edit into a shortcut if you fear the command line) - think again.
Absolutely the worst option: If you think it's an environment variable - DING-dee-flipping-DING-DING, we have a winner.

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html

Now I'm plenty computer-savvy, but environment variables? Really now. I just want Thunderbird to be able to optionally log the traffic. That's not something that should be an environment variable that I'd have to set again and again (or create a separate batch file + shortcut for, etc.). That's something that should be in the config editor at worst or be a checkbox in Tools > Options... > |Advanced| > General / Network & Disk Space. It's not like the dialog doesn't have room for it - what, with 1/5th of the dialog being -blank- at the bottom.

That said, I'm not lumping -all- OSS in with this particular bad experience (there's plenty of others)... some is very well-written and well-supported.

• Make sure banking sites are functional without the web's number one security liabilty (javascript).
• Publish -all SPF records to help stop phishing emails.
• Check the HTTP referer before serving web content linked by a third party page.

Or... fix your browser.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

you could create a plugin for Greasemonkey that rewrites all urls with https, should be rather trivial to create

You can get Adblock to run using this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543

once installed, go to "addons" and there will be a new button "force compatibility."

hideous Reply to This buttons on their comment display

here you go, the web developer extension. enjoy.

Looks like my problem is solved by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416683#c8 under Windows. Tying the ability to download files to Internet Options settings on Windows is new behavior for beta5.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426679

After visiting google.com and searching for any term, such as "digg", clicking on the search result takes you to a page with the following text:
================
*Redirect Notice*

  The previous page is sending you to _http://digg.com/_.

  If you do not want to visit that page, you can _return to the previous page_.
================

I suppose this is intended to fight Phishing redirection attacks, but as of Firefox 3 Beta 5, the Redirect Notice is shown for all search results, including clearly non-phishing results such as digg.com and yahoo.com.

This does not occur in:
Firefox 2.0.0.13
Firefox 3 Beta 4
Internet Explorer 7

This does not occur for the following google-owned sites: blogger, orkut, youtube.
It DOES occur for similar but not google-owned sites: wordpress, linkedin, hulu.

user_pref("browser.tabs.useLegacyScroll", true);

Also, you should be able to "tag" your bookmarks with "keystrings". I should be able to make a bookmark for slashdot, and set a keystring of "sla" to it. If I ever type sla into the addressbar, my bookmark absolutely should be the first pick, bar none, because I have a 100% match.

Use Flashblock:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

It's only a 94% solution, but that ends up going pretty far. It doesn't do anything about the flash plugin being a proprietary binary though.

Lots of the changes in Firefox 3 with regard to bookmarking are in acknowledgment that the current way of bookmarking isn't as efficient as it should be so users DO go and do what you do, just google for their sites.

The star is a one-click bookmark. You can file it later if you want, or just use the "smart" bookmark features.

The awesomebar is basically a search engine for your bookmarks and history. I really don't see why people hate it. If you want to type in a URL without your pr0n sites showing up, clear your history! But seriously... you enter in a key word or key words, and all sites which have some connection with it pop up, with them intelligently ranked based on how often you visit those sites. Even if you just type in URLs you'll find as soon as you type in the "h" of "http" your most frequently typed urls you started typing with "http" in the past will appear! I used to manually type in the address to planet.mozilla.org to go there. Now I just tap h and it's right there by the top for me. The AwesomeBar is designed to make it easier to find your bookmarks and history items.

And if you don't like it... that's why we have extensions.

or one like IE 7 which is more polished than both Firefox and Opera.

IE7?! Are you kidding me? You can "polish" Firefox as much as you want.

or one like IE 7 which is more polished than both Firefox and Opera.

IE7?! Are you kidding me? You can "polish" Firefox as much as you want.

or one like IE 7 which is more polished than both Firefox and Opera.

IE7?! Are you kidding me? You can "polish" Firefox as much as you want.

or one like IE 7 which is more polished than both Firefox and Opera.

IE7?! Are you kidding me? You can "polish" Firefox as much as you want.

Or check out bookmark keywords. I have it setup for "w something" would do a wikipedia search for something, g is google, az is amazon, etc. Also works with delicious and the delicious extension (adds shortcut:w, etc. as a tag in delicious). I use these exclusively and get rid of the search bar.

• CMD-t for a new tab
• "en", down arrow, end, backspace
• {type name of subject}.

Being a Wikipedian myself, I looked for some extension to let me go directly to a Wikipedia article, and I eventually found it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/443
The way I configured this extension, you can just enter some lemma in the address bar and then Ctrl-Enter takes you to the Wikipedia article. It is quite useful because you don't have to use the mouse to go to the Google/Yahoo/Wikipedia-field. And if the article does not exist, it goes to the site anyway and doesn't redirect to the Wikipedia search (which I find somewhat annoying).

Yes, too many entries and two lines each, with the site icon making them look staggered. I simply couldn't see anything useful at a glance.

The oldbar addon gets you back to a clean list: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

I'm able to enjoy the feature now, and I find it useful. This mode should be configurable, as well as reverting to a "dumb" URL text search if that suits your habits. Otherwise, this annoyance has the potential to drive away users, because every time you type a URL the awesomebar will assault you.

Could you comment in bug 425079 and attach your localStore.rdf, as described in comment 16? It would help a lot - we have a workaround fix, but we're trying to figure out the root cause.

Could you comment in bug 425079 and attach your localStore.rdf, as described in comment 16? It would help a lot - we have a workaround fix, but we're trying to figure out the root cause.

In fact, there are patches implementing ACID3 features that aren't going to be merged in Firefox 3 because they're too intrusive (what, slashdotters want an example? look here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421765#c8)

Acid 3, just like acid 2, has been released when the firefox development cycle is focusing on stabilizing...other browsers have focused on passing acid3 like it was the most important thing to do and have done ugly things just to be the first, take for example this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410460#c44

And the fact that at least WebKit has introduced a special case for the Acid3
font:
m_allowFontSmoothing = (nameStr != "Ahem");

In fact, there are patches implementing ACID3 features that aren't going to be merged in Firefox 3 because they're too intrusive (what, slashdotters want an example? look here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421765#c8)

Acid 3, just like acid 2, has been released when the firefox development cycle is focusing on stabilizing...other browsers have focused on passing acid3 like it was the most important thing to do and have done ugly things just to be the first, take for example this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410460#c44

And the fact that at least WebKit has introduced a special case for the Acid3
font:
m_allowFontSmoothing = (nameStr != "Ahem");

I'm sure somebody is likely to bring it up, so it may as well be me with some additional relevant facts. The HTTP 1.1 specification, RFC 2616, says that:

Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections to another server or proxy, where N is the number of simultaneously active users. These guidelines are intended to improve HTTP response times and avoid congestion.

This "improved connection parallelism" is simply changing Firefox from using the RFC-suggested 2 persistent connections, to 6. Now, SHOULDs and SHOULD NOTs are not set in stone, but they do require careful thought before ignoring.

The Bugzilla entry debating this has a comment that points out that other browsers have also started to ignore this part of the specification:

• Firefox 2: 2 connections
• Opera 9.26: 4 connections
• Opera 9.5 beta: 4 connections
• Safari 3.0.4: 4 connections
• IE 7: 2 connections
• IE 8: 6 connections

I'm sure somebody is likely to bring it up, so it may as well be me with some additional relevant facts. The HTTP 1.1 specification, RFC 2616, says that:

Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections to another server or proxy, where N is the number of simultaneously active users. These guidelines are intended to improve HTTP response times and avoid congestion.

This "improved connection parallelism" is simply changing Firefox from using the RFC-suggested 2 persistent connections, to 6. Now, SHOULDs and SHOULD NOTs are not set in stone, but they do require careful thought before ignoring.

The Bugzilla entry debating this has a comment that points out that other browsers have also started to ignore this part of the specification:

• Firefox 2: 2 connections
• Opera 9.26: 4 connections
• Opera 9.5 beta: 4 connections
• Safari 3.0.4: 4 connections
• IE 7: 2 connections
• IE 8: 6 connections