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  1. user agent switcher addon by splatter · · Score: 2, Funny · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    What do you mean "firefox" I'm running IE 7.0 using windows 3.0 on a dual chip Pentium and only 64k of RAM!

    Boy does it run great!

    Good mozilla / firefox addon

    User Agent Switcher 0.6.10 Homepage
    by Chris Pederick

    Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

    hth

    DP

  2. Re:Text of page by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?
    Netscape users can simply set their browser to IE mode to continue to enjoy the site that sent you here. FireFox users can use Internet Explorer, Opera or Netscape (in IE mode) to access it. FireFox users also have the option of using the IE Tab plug-in which uses the IE rendering engine to display pages, but also disables the Ad Block Plus plug-in.

    ... or they can just download Firefox user agent switcher instead..

    Iceman

  3. Re:High-CPU Flash Ads by jasonwea · · Score: 1 · on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web?

    Ah yes, bug 345529. If my Firefox instance isn't quite new I get the crash whenever adding an exception. I have also had some randomish crashes as well which have completely disappeared since removing Flashblock.

    Luckily for me, removing Flashblock and leaving Adblock Plus doesn't seem to have negatively affecting my browsing experience much at all. EasyList does a great job here at blocking both flash and non-flash adverts.

    I'm no longer concerned about not having Flashblock. The only real reason I used it was to stop YouTube videos playing automatically and now I've discovered TubeStop. Any site with flash that annoys me (advert or otherwise, typically unrequested sound) gets their tab closed. Problem solved.

  4. Re:Generalizations by ClamIAm · · Score: 1 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    is the typical IE user ... sophisticated enough to use Ad Muncher, or rather to even know it exists?


    I think the more important question is this:

    is the typical Firefox user ... sophisticated enough to use Adblock, or rather to even know it exists?


    I use Firefox, know how to use ad-blocking software (yay regular expressions!), and believe there are legitimate reasons for blocking ads. However I don't use (specifically) ad-blocking software, for two reasons. One is that I think automatically blocking all ads is unethical. The other is that I'm too lazy to do it by hand.

    One piece of blocking software I do use, however, is Flashblock. I installed this after realizing the cause of all unwanted popups and browser slowdown I was experiencing was due to embedded Flash all over the place. There's also the problem of Flash "cookies", which are really undocumented and not easy to remove. So I use Flashblock, and whitelist Homestar Runner, and that's that.
  5. Re:And I question their claims. by Josef+Meixner · · Score: 1 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    Since cookies are needed to maintain state / session information, I allow them, but tend to blow them away after my browsing session ends. But I restrict cookies only to the destination server and do not take third party cookies.

    I do the same, but it slowly gets harder. First there are the big ad-companies (MS, Yahoo, Google) which also have services you might want to use and then can't really block their cookies. The second thing is the ever increasing amount of cookies. Besides normal cookies is the FF2 super cookie (Dom Storage) and the flash cookies. Also the many script tags used in ads could use some of the techniques used to infect browsers and so manage to make information persistent as long as you keep browsing with the same session (not that I know of someone doing this).

  6. Re:The other advantages of using Firefox by MajinBlayze · · Score: 1 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    I clicked on a few of them, they're apparently on the same box (all slashdotted at the moment), but when they load you can see how crappy and devoid of content they are. I'm using Check4Change to keep track of this site; I want to see it once it's not slashdotted anymore. I suspect something might change soon!
  7. That's ok by zdude255 · · Score: 1 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    That's ok, we'll just develop another addon to circumvent the blocking... Oh wait...

    Screw your site. I'll go build my own website! With Blackjack and hookers!

  8. More and better ideas by hacker · · Score: 1 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    Why not just block everyone EXCEPT Firefox users?

    What about everyone using IceWeasel on Debian? Is he blocking them too?

    What about those using Mozilla, or Epiphany (both using the same XUL and underlying Gecko HTML engine)?

    How is he blocking them? By UserAgent? That's assinine, because you can just change it, and be done with it (or remove it altogether).

    Why not block MSIE also? Their HTTP request objects are malformed, and they do not follow the specifications. Not to mention, they don't properly support standards, CSS, or HTML properly.

    Blocking browsers is futile, and all we ended up doing by posting this to Slashdot, was bring attention to his ad-ridden blog, generating him a ton of cash, negating the whole point in the first place.

    Sigh, kids. What they should do, is learn proper SEO, and how to write and market a website properly, to generate actual revenue from people who WANT to click on the ads you present to them. Plenty of my pages are precisely that.

  9. Adblock can be set up to load pre-made rules by Mr.+Vage · · Score: 0 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    If you are using Adblock, get the Adblock Filterset.G Updater (1). The other option is to get Adblock Plus (2) which lets you subscribe to filter lists (3).

    Strange. I can't turn the text into links, so here they are:
    1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/113 6/
    2. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/186 5/
    3. http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions/

  10. Adblock can be set up to load pre-made rules by Mr.+Vage · · Score: 0 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    If you are using Adblock, get the Adblock Filterset.G Updater (1). The other option is to get Adblock Plus (2) which lets you subscribe to filter lists (3).

    Strange. I can't turn the text into links, so here they are:
    1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/113 6/
    2. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/186 5/
    3. http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions/

  11. Re:Then screw them.... by Illogical+Spock · · Score: 1 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?


    ... or just use this extension:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

    User Agent Switcher 0.6.10

    The beauty in the extensions capability of Firefox is that we will always have a way around anything. :-)

  12. Same old, same old by MoxFulder · · Score: 3, Interesting · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    Political solutions to technical problems... as pathetic and ineffectual as ever :-) What a complete non-starter.

    If this "grassroots" Firefox-blocking effort takes off, we'll soon have a Firefox extension to spoof the IE UserAgent on any of the sites that blocks Firefox. Oh wait!!! It already exists, and I'll bet with a little work it could be automated to spoof based on a database of anti-Firefox sites. Of course, all the savvy Firefox users will use this to avoid the block, and only our hapless grandmothers--who don't use Adblock anyway--will be stuck wondering why the Internet doesn't work. And absolutely NOTHING will have been accomplished.

    Our interconnected world is increasingly resistant to petty, arbitrary restrictions. Just witness the rise of region-free DVD players, modchips, and third-party ink cartridges... and the ridiculous, heavy-handed responses of the **AA, the game companies, and the printer manufacturers.

  13. Turning on pipelining by claykarmel · · Score: 3, Informative · on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web?

    This was greek to me. Here's how.

    Turn it on this way:
    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips

    And information about how to access the secret tools (Why didn't I know this until now? I must be lame.)
    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#aboutc onfig

  14. Turning on pipelining by claykarmel · · Score: 3, Informative · on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web?

    This was greek to me. Here's how.

    Turn it on this way:
    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips

    And information about how to access the secret tools (Why didn't I know this until now? I must be lame.)
    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#aboutc onfig

  15. Re:Text of page by CmputrAce · · Score: 1 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

    Does anyone see the irony of this statement?

    Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks...

    If it is true that Firefox users are a "somewhat small percentage" of the (users browsing) the Internet, then doesn't that also mean that the supposed loss of revenue incurred by these site owners is proportionally small? Based on this, we must assume that any site owner that purposefully blocks access by a Firefox browser actually believes that Firefox usage is significant, and not small.

    It's not an uncommon practice: Belittle the enemy who is greater than you hoping that he will believe your words and not reason.

    By the way... If a Firefox user is intelligent enough to install AdBlock in order to filter ads, wouldn't they also be intelligent enough to install User Agent Switcher in order to fool the site into thinking that they are borwsing the Internet with IE on Windows98?

    RIAA for the InterWeb, Huh?

  16. Abusers aren't satisfied with one kind of abuse. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Interesting · on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web?

    The people who make ads are a self-destructive bunch. Numerous times I've waited for a Slashdot page to load while some ad server took its time. Abusing me with abusive, dishonest ads wasn't enough, they wanted to abuse me by wasting my time, too. Mentioning the problem to Slashdot editors brought only temporary fixes, or no change.

    So now I don't see the ads at all, thanks to Firefox's AdBlock Plus and NoScript add-ons. (I recommend NoScript only for people who don't mind fiddling with permissions for each new web site.)

    I guess abusers aren't satisfied with only one kind of abuse. I can dimly remember some of the Slashdot ads. When they weren't misleading, they were generally stupidly written. People with no technical knowledge shouldn't work for technical companies.

  17. Abusers aren't satisfied with one kind of abuse. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Interesting · on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web?

    The people who make ads are a self-destructive bunch. Numerous times I've waited for a Slashdot page to load while some ad server took its time. Abusing me with abusive, dishonest ads wasn't enough, they wanted to abuse me by wasting my time, too. Mentioning the problem to Slashdot editors brought only temporary fixes, or no change.

    So now I don't see the ads at all, thanks to Firefox's AdBlock Plus and NoScript add-ons. (I recommend NoScript only for people who don't mind fiddling with permissions for each new web site.)

    I guess abusers aren't satisfied with only one kind of abuse. I can dimly remember some of the Slashdot ads. When they weren't misleading, they were generally stupidly written. People with no technical knowledge shouldn't work for technical companies.

  18. Use Adblock with my subscription... by JAB+Creations · · Score: -1, Flamebait · on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web?

    Use Mozilla Firefox... http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ ...with Adblock Plus... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10 ...with my filter subscription... http://www.jabcreations.com/home/home-downloads.ph p If you're seeing any advertising after using my subscription contact me and I'll be happy to update my list.

  19. Re:AdBlock Block... Blocks The Page! by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Informative · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?
    I use ABP to get rid of ads, not to get rid of "slander". Why does ABP block a site just because it is critical of ABP?

    Because the guy who wrote the site coded it that way. http://dannycarlton.com/AD_Tools/ABPfence.php. He offers tools to block anyone running ABP from any site.

    He's had a long-running feud with the Adblock team https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/discussio ns/comments.php?DiscussionID=3060&page=3.

    "So now, it's war. As they attempt to create "work arounds" for my blocks, I work on more comprehensive blocks that will defeat their work arounds. I also am informing other how to block people using the plug-in. The people who wrote the plug-in aren't terribly clever; thieves rarely are. But now they've inspired me, via their arrogance, to make sure a method for defeating their plug-in can be developed and distributed." --> Danny Carlton (http://jacklewis.net/weblog/, posted July 27, 2007)
  20. Re:The beauty of firefox by grimsweep · · Score: 1 · on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?
    It's not automatic, but it is convenient:

    User Agent Swticher

  21. Die Hard has died by roman_mir · · Score: 2, Informative · on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding

    The last Die Hard is most definitely the worst.
    Spoilers included, so ROT13, use this to read.
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    As to the students thinking of science as hard, I don't think the movies are responsible for this. Being smart is apparently not cool anymore, why should it be? You can make much more dough selling SCO Linux subscriptions :) or at least playing basketball. Oh, and chicks like basketball players, not nerds.

  22. Re:not bad... by jez9999 · · Score: 1 · on The Future of C++ As Seen By Its Creator

    I haven't yet written (or debugged) any large programs in C++, so that could be why I'm still enthusastic. Perhaps after some time with the language I might see what everyone is so worked up about.

    If you want a good example, have a look at some of the Mozilla source code. Virtually everything has a layer of abstraction beneath it using various methods such as templates, preprocessor macros, and typedefs. This is apparently so it can be multiplatform, through an object model called XPCOM. The trouble is, C++ may have the ability to be 'multiplatform', but it necessarily involves almost learning a new COM language to be able to do it because of the inherent differences in various platforms.

    I'd rather have something higher level like Java, whose VM sorts out the irritating platform differences.

    Disclaimer: I have submitted some significant patches to the Mozilla source.

  23. Plugins provide incentive by attributed+insanity · · Score: 1 · on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users'

    I have yet to see anyone make a genuinely convincing argument for using IE over Firefox. On the other hand, I don't think I've seen anyone make a genuinely convincing argument for using Firefox over IE, either. All I can offer is this anecdote:

    As a largely web-based software developer, I had cause to be debugging a client's Javascript whilst my boss looked on. After he encountered a similar problem a few days later, he asked what I'd installed in order to see "that nice breakdown of scripts". I directed him to the addons site and told him to search for "Web Developer"*. About an hour after that, which time he had spent browsing through the plugins, he came bounding into the office announcing "IE is s**t again!".

    Perhaps the Mozilla team need to leverage this strong customiseability more in the ads? You know, "The browser that can be truly yours" sort of thing?

    * I know, Firebug. We got onto that later.
  24. Re:That's still a lot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users'

    Firesomething is so much cooler than that.

  25. Re:Amazon S3 by yelvington · · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Rolls Out Online Storage Services

    S3Fox:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/324 7
    Integrates an upload/download interface for Amazon S3 into Firefox. Very slick and very free.

  26. My 12-Step Retention Plan by andrewd18 · · Score: 5, Funny · on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users'

    Pfft. That 12-Step Retention Plan sucks. Here's a better one:

    1. Change Firefox icon label to closer resemble action of getting to web. No longer shall the icon on the desktop be called "Mozilla Firefox", but instead, "U CAN HAZ INTRN3T".

    2. Force the Firefox icon to easier to find location. <img src="firefox.png" alt="U CAN HAZ INTRN3T" height="768" width="1024" /> Problem solved.

    3. Alter the default browser settings path for better user choice. Embed an audio file of Arnold Schwarzenegger saying, "Use Firefox! Use it now!" into the IE startup path.

    4. Major outbound brand marketing program driving brand recognition and differentiation. A full page NY Times ad with the "Walkthrough Cat", its text changed to "GIT UR INTERN3T ON".

    5. Improve download page and first run pages. Download page must be similar to NY Times ad, so the imbeciles we're trying to reach can actually remember wtf they're downloading. The first run page must have "HAI! U GOT INTRN3T!!" in large letters, preferably with blink tags and links to pron.

    6. Launch support.mozilla.com SUMO If Firefox sees another bloated browser installed on the computer, it will challenge it to a wrestling match, the winner becoming the new default browser. A small side-effect may be a userbase increase in the Asian market.

    7. Make common plug-ins work out of the box. The MegaRotic Toolbar will now be part of the initial install, as will an RSS feed of Digg.com.

    8. Make add-ons and personas more accessible. The Mozilla Store will now ship free wizard hats and robes with every Firefox download.

    9. Make the web feel more human. Male users will find their browser displaying all text in capital letters approximately once every twenty-eight days. Female users will find their browser doesn't remember their user preferences or date of birth form fields.

    10. Improve messaging through communication channels. We will also improve messaging through non-communication channels. Yes, our code monkeys are that good. 11. Stickier start page. If you left-click anywhere on the new start page, it will take three right-clicks to get your cursor to move again.

    12. Change Firefox icon image to closer resemble action of getting to web. In keeping with steps 1 and 7, the new icon will show Ceiling Cat, as we all know what most of our users will be doing on the internet.

  27. Re:That's still a lot by vigmeister · · Score: 1 · on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users'

    My first thoughts exactly.

    For those 0.005% who are confused, the first thing I downloaded for FF was the User Agent Switcher and my browser pretends to be IE all of the time while actually being the firefunk!

    Cheers!

  28. Re:Java Programmers == Typists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sun Lowers Barriers to Open-Source Java

    Python is not compiled. Perl is not compiled. Javascript is not compiled. These languages are read in, line by line, and executed.
    Wrong, wrong and wrong. The other AC mentioned Parrot and Tamarin, but it's not even necessary to look that far ahead. The current canonical implementations of Perl, Python and JavaScript all compile the program to bytecode before execution.

    You fail it.
    Right back atcha.
  29. Re:Java Programmers == Typists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sun Lowers Barriers to Open-Source Java

    The Jalapeno VM and JNode OS are both written in pure Java. They used their own JIT compiler to compile themselves into native code. And how do you propose to run them and their JIT compiler without another VM? You need a VM written in some other language to actually use them. That's not bootstrapping.

    Python is not compiled. Perl is not compiled. Javascript is not compiled. These languages are read in, line by line, and executed. You fail it. Yes, they are. Modern interpreters compile the language and then run the bytecode. Early interpreters work the way you describe because memory was at a premium. With modern amounts of memory, there's no need to recompile the code every time its executed. Instead they compile them into bytecode and run that bytecode: exactly like Java.

    See Parrot, the VM for Perl, and Tamarin, Mozilla's JavaScript VM.
  30. Re:scroogle? by grege222 · · Score: 1 · on Privacy Winning Search Engine War

    What's to stop those sites from actually logging the information themselves? For the extra paranoid there is always tor for anonymizing your IP and CustomizeGoogle for anonymizing your cookie.

  31. Re:Announcing by bigdan · · Score: 2, Informative · on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5

    No support for markup of mathematics in HTML? So what's this then http://www.w3.org/Math/? It even works in Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/.

  32. Re:Firefox to the rescue by kwark · · Score: 1 · on The Java Popup you Can't Stop

    So I guess noscript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
    and cookiesafe: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249 7 are just illusions?

  33. Re:Firefox to the rescue by kwark · · Score: 1 · on The Java Popup you Can't Stop

    So I guess noscript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
    and cookiesafe: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249 7 are just illusions?

  34. Re:So? One can easily crash Firefox too... by Seismologist · · Score: 1 · on Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words

    For those of you researching bug #263160, click on the link provided.

  35. Re:Interesting article, lame site by cp.tar · · Score: 1 · on Couple Bonding Through PC Building

    Use Repagination and download all the pages at once.

    Beats clicking Next over and over and over again.

  36. Re:ecosystem development? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 10-Day Patch Guarantee Not Mozilla's Policy

    There's kinda a history of that at Mozilla. Check out the signature here for example http://www.mozilla.org/editorials/mozilla-overview .html

    Funny shit if you ask me.

    ps. what a silly piece of news, complimented by demented comments...

  37. Re:I tried to RTFA... by rainmayun · · Score: 1 · on British Scientists Reverse Casimir Effect

    Nuke Anything Enhanced

    One of my favorite Firefox extensions.

  38. Re:Slow News day? by FutureDomain · · Score: 1 · on Point-and-Click Gmail Hacking Shown at Black Hat

    That's why I have the CustomizeGoogle Firefox extension. It has an option to always use a secure connection to GMail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader, and Search History. Now I never have to remember to use https:/// it just uses it automatically.

  39. Another Extension by lupine · · Score: 2, Informative · on Point-and-Click Gmail Hacking Shown at Black Hat

    I use the Gmail Notifier firefox extension which checks for messages and forces gmail to use secure connections.

  40. Re:Good reason to install Better GMail! by afidel · · Score: 4, Informative · on Point-and-Click Gmail Hacking Shown at Black Hat

    I think you should have linked to the Mozilla addons page. I know I wouldn't install a firefox addon from a random site with the name hacker in the URL.

  41. Re:MNG is too comples for Firefox by Nahor · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard?

    Lies! I refuse to believe that there has ever been talk in the Firefox dev team about memory size!
    Believe what you want
  42. MNG is too comples for Firefox by Nahor · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard?

    Further reading seems to indicate that Mozilla's developers had MNG support, but yanked it in favor of APNG support.

    There is a huge bug in bugzilla about MNG. MNG was basically pulled because it was deemed too complex, increasing Firefox size too much for not enough worth.

    APNG was preferred because it is simpler too implement (or integrates better with the existing PNG decoder or something like that) and doesn't increase Firefox's size as much.

  43. Re:Avoid wrist movements by IpalindromeI · · Score: 1 · on Mouse or Trackball?

    Pretty much the only thing I need a mouse for is firefox.

    Not anymore:
    - keyboard navigation: mozless
    - "click" links by typing labels: Hit-a-Hint

    I haven't used mozless, but Hit-a-Hint is very nice for mouse-less browsing.

  44. Re:Avoid wrist movements by IpalindromeI · · Score: 1 · on Mouse or Trackball?

    Pretty much the only thing I need a mouse for is firefox.

    Not anymore:
    - keyboard navigation: mozless
    - "click" links by typing labels: Hit-a-Hint

    I haven't used mozless, but Hit-a-Hint is very nice for mouse-less browsing.

  45. Re:does it... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 1 · on What We Know About the FBI's CIPAV Spyware

    Current version of Firefox for OS/2 http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0.0.5/contrib/firefox-2.0.0.5.en-US.o s2.zip [mozilla.org] Nathan


    Wow, you're for real.

    What I don't get -- why would you still run OS/2, despite its severe lack of decent applications, incompatibilities with current hardware, complete lack of vendor support. At least with a Linux distro, you have a large developer base, decent hardware drivers for current hardware, and can purchase vendor support if you need it.
  46. Re:does it... by NathanWoodruff · · Score: 1 · on What We Know About the FBI's CIPAV Spyware

    Current version of Firefox for OS/2 http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0.0.5/contrib/firefox-2.0.0.5.en-US.o s2.zip Nathan

  47. Re:A simple solution... WAKE UP! by Torodung · · Score: 1 · on Firefox and IE Still Not Getting Along
    Fine, you think I'm hallucinating? Here's what Daniel Veditz has to say on Bugzilla:

    On Windows XP some urls for "web" protocols that contain %00 launch the wrong
    handler and appear to be able to launch local programs, with limited argument
    passing. It is not yet clear that this can be used to compromise a machine but
    we can always fear the worst.

    The same behavior is observed using "Run" from the Windows Start menu for the
    affected protocols     (http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, mailto, news, snews,
    nttp, possibly others?). (emph. added) The reason I call FUD is not because the remote launching of executables is false or benign, it's because the reasoning pegging it as a Firefox flaw is spurious and because, IMHO, the severity of this exploit is badly hyped. Mozilla's folks say system compromise potential is unclear. "Fearing the worst" is what security professionals do, but dire speculations are hardly reality.

    Stop and think. If you can produce this effect from the Windows command line with Firefox closed, the problem is clearly not with a program that is not executing. It's in the way Windows Vista technologies (a.k.a.: the IE7 suite) handles URI calls containing %00 in the argument.

    It isn't a Firefox exploit, it's a hole in the OS. All Firefox did was pass the argument to the OS according to spec.

    Worse yet, if IE 7 itself doesn't produce the same problem, and I'll assume it doesn't as the article doesn't mention a problem with IE, it's seems likely it's because Microsoft knew about the %00 "feature" and hard coded around the exploit. In that case, whether they failed to mention the problem to other developers out of arrogance, insular culture, or outright malice is anyone's guess.

    Why they left this "feature" in their operating system in the first place is beyond me.

    So Firefox shouldn't even be mentioned. That's the FUD. This should be labeled a Windows OS (or IE7) security issue and patched no later than next super Tuesday.

    The only reason Firefox is mentioned at all is because Microsoft is gunning for them, possibly by leaving time-bombs in their own operating system.

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  48. Not controversial: Managers must understand. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 1 · on Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation

    It is true, I am intending to show disrespect for her work, not for her as a person. I consider the idea that someone with no technical knowledge cannot manage an effort he or she does not understand very obvious, and not controversial.

    There are many, many links to Slashdot comments in which people say they have not been treated with respect when they tried to report bugs. Also see my list of 20 excuses that Mozilla developers give for not fixing bugs.

    Think Firefox has been stable? Here is an authoritative list that says Firefox has NOT been stable: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption: Critical.

    There seems to be a pattern of coding sloppily and then going back and fixing the sloppiness. Maybe you have another idea, but that is how it appears to me.

    You say, "I honestly don't understand what the issue is..."

    That's true.

  49. Re:Has Mozilla forgotten their mission ? by Raenex · · Score: 1 · on Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation

    Has Mozilla forgotten their mission ? [...] "The Mozilla Foundation was established in July 2003 as a California not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the public benefit." And in August 2005 they created the for-profit Mozilla Corporation to handle the +$50 million a year they get from Google.

    OSS is supposed to be a *different* business model, with a *broader* vision, benefitting the public, not just Google proxies or lackies. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
  50. Re:Winifred Mitchell Baker has NO technical savvy. by bunratty · · Score: 1 · on Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation

    I've followed your links, and seen your comments in bug reports. I don't see where "the Mozilla team becomes abusive." I see some of your bug reports (bug 204668 and bug 222660 for example) where testers and developers (some of them Mozilla employees and others volunteers) asked you for further details so they could track down bugs. Rather than provide specific information to help track down the bugs, you instead started ranting on Slashdot.