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var pageUrl = getBrowser().currentURI.asciiSpec;
reportUrl += "&url=" + encodeURIComponent(pageUrl);

var pageUrl = getBrowser().currentURI.asciiSpec;
reportUrl += "&url=" + encodeURIComponent(pageUrl);

It should be pointed out that when you speak of Mozilla as an entity (as in "they host", "Mozilla doesn't", etc) you are speaking of the Mozilla Corporation, which is only a small, though important subset of all that Mozilla is. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/

What browsers need is a way to lauch an external text edit for editing form fields.

MOFO has extensions that allow this.

Recently when SeaMonkey installed with my linux distro... I started the browser... clicked on the icon in my menu to open another one and... that crap was still there !

From TFA (specifically, the release notes):

• [Linux] When launching SeaMonkey, already-running instances are detected (Bug 122698)

If this is your only problem with SeaMonkey, upgrading to the new release fixes it.

Actually, Mozilla has almost everything to do with SeaMonkey. They developed Mozilla 1.8, which SeaMonkey is still based upon. They host the source code, bug database, and releases. The core of SeaMonkey is shared with Firefox and Thunderbird so most Mozilla development directly improves SeaMonkey with no extra effort. SeaMonkey remains an official Mozilla project. SeaMonkey simply isn't a Mozilla product, which means that Mozilla doesn't drive SeaMonkey-specific development or provide support.

...they really need to fix the memory leaks.

SeaMonkey 1.5 will be the next release. As per MozillaWiki:

The current working title for a release from that work is "SeaMonkey 1.5" (subject to change) with a release expected in 2007. (This work takes place on "Mozilla trunk".)

Um, how about Firefox 2.0 + Chatzilla + Firebug ? They seem to do what you want.

It's called Flashblock.

64 bit support being paid attention to by Adobe... Right now there is no x86_64 version of Adobe Flash Player for any OS.

And btw. The piece of code that is the major stumbling block for a x86_64 build of Flash Player has been open sourced... http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/

Firefox surpasses 100M downloads (dated October 19th, 2005)

"I am not going to remove flashblock from firefox any time soon"

Hum ... I've said this before and I'll say it again: If you're relying on Flashblock (the Firefox extension?) to block Flash on any old site that means you're allowing javascript on any old site. Know what I mean? If you want to block Flash on untrusted sites then use the javascript blocker, Noscript - it has this capability, along with blocking Java as well.

I am not going to remove flashblock from firefox any time soon, I don't expect for flash to become any less annoying and inefficient because of this new release.

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a Free (GPL and LGPL'ed) Unix kernel module that allows non-privileged users to create their own file systems without the need to write any kernel code. This is achieved by running the file system code in user space, while the FUSE module only provides a "bridge" to the actual kernel interfaces. FUSE was officially merged into the mainstream Linux kernel tree in kernel version 2.6.14.

FUSE is not limited to, but particularly useful for writing virtual file systems. As opposed to traditional filesystems which essentially save data to and retrieve data from disk, virtual filesystems do not actually store data themselves. They act as a view or translation of an existing filesystem or storage device. In principle, any resource available to FUSE implementation can be exported as a file system. See Examples for some of the possible applications.

The FUSE system was originally part of the A Virtual Filesystem (AVFS) project, but has since split off into its own project on SourceForge.

FUSE is also available on FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and Mac OS X.

NTFS-3G is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux. Unlike the NTFS driver included in the Linux kernel, its support for writing files has very little limitations: files of any size can be created, renamed or deleted on NTFS partitions, with the exception of compressed and encrypted files. ntfs-3g cannot yet modify Access control lists and permissions. NTFS partitions are mounted using the "FUSE" userland file system framework.

NTFS-3G is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

i believe it autodects your OS based on your user agent, you insensitive anonymous coward. why are you in windows??

Unfortunately its become a modern-day whitepages, which is all I ever use Myspace for. I ran across something that made visiting the site more tolerable: a firefox plugin. Using the Greasemonkey plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/748/ and one of several scrips from http://userscripts.org/, all that annoying media is disabled, making for a somewhat more normal experience.

ToolbarMS: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3292/ 2.3 months = 2 months and about a third of a month. just quicker to write.

An add-on for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/

What's "noscript"?

Joost, formerly known as The Venice Project, gets most of its "cool factor" in the geek circles from being built over the Mozilla XUL Runner. In other words, its client is based on XUL, SVG, JavaScript and XPCOM, just like Firefox, as outlined in this article.

The rel-tag microformat is an attempt to standardise tagging. It relies on other microformats to define what it is you are tagging. There isn't a 'photo' microformat at the moment, so you can't do a web-wide search for photos tagged 'fireworks' for example. If you're interested in the semantic web it's worth checking out microformats. You can download a plugin for firefox that reads microformats. Go and have a look at Flickr with it, or any other site that implements microformats. If people have tagged something with a 'geo' tag giving long. and lat. then it will bring up a Google Map showing the location. If they've included a 'hCard' around their contact details you can add it to your address book.

> As a side note, that's what Firefox does when it encounters an XML file it doesn't have a stylesheet for.

You mean unless nsFeedSniffer.cpp decides otherwise?

) The 2001 deletion of Netscape Developer. This lost a ton of Netscape copyrighted Javascript documentation. Unless I'm mistaken, this has been (quite some time afterwards) transfered to the mozilla fundation, and can be accessed at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript Cheers,

As usual links form slashdot to bugzilla bounced so copy and paste the url

Vote and comment here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24934 3

"Roaming should be useable with Firefox. I added support for it a year ago, but
it probably bitrotted."

Just so you know, FF2 used to codenamed Bon Echo.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2 .0a1.html

Sounds similar in "symptoms" (the freezing and the 15-20 second period) to this Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36684 9.

I take it that you can't reproduce the problem in IE or Opera?
What's they cpu usage? Does it freeze all firefox windows or just the Yahoo window?

My solution in situations like this is to build custom Stylish rules for sites like that. Even if they change the id a whole bunch, they're pretty much constrained to a certain number of xhtml structures, and I doubt they'll be changing that a lot. So do something like: #ad_space div>div{display: none;} (replacing the selectors with an actual path to the frustrating elements). There are also lots of scripts for stylish at http://www.userstyles.org/

...and this is why! Well, this probably isn't why, but nevertheless...

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#spell-a bbreviate

probably why it was never deemed important enough to implement the store-your-bookmarks-on-an-FTP which has been discussed for so long

You are most likely referring to "Roaming Profiles" which has been implemented in Mozilla SeaMonkey. It lets you store bookmarks and other things from the profile on remote servers. Few faithful followers still prefer the SeaMonkey suite over Firefox due to this and some other features which were not implemented in Firefox when they initially decided to focus on Firefox development. Firefox has mostly caught up though in terms of features due to extensions and updates since 1.0

In short if you don't want a 3rd party solution to storing your profile remotely, try SeaMonkey:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Whoa, you can customize Final Fantasy 3? US or Japan? FF3 US is still my favorite out of the series...

Oh. You're talking about Firefox? Please don't use "FF" to abbreviate Firefox, which is one word. Use "Fx" or "fx", instead. See also http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#spell-a bbreviate

I'd like to have the ability to save sessions rather than having to bookmark all the tabs and re-opening them again.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2324/ works for me.

I understand that Firefox wishes to be more than a web browser. But looking at the FFX 3 requirements page I find one very weird requirement:

P2/HIGHLY DESIRABLE features:

• Adding a Serverless open Source Messenger as a default toolbar

Honestly, WTF? Is this really a feature that should be in something that mainly is a web browser? I would understand if there was a need to add a general Kademlia DHT API to easy delivering information, but isn't a chat application something that should be covered as an extension. Typically a chat application runs constantly while a web browser (or "information broker") generally isn't running constantly. I fail to see the logic behind this.

SQLite is not a new feature in Firefox 3. It is already available in Firefox 2.0.

Mod Parent Up!

It seems to be common to misuse FF as the FireFox abbreviation. Indeed, I can produce countless IRC logs of instances when users bash each other for using incorrect abbreviations.

Often, the FF acronym is associated with Final Fantasy, (FFVI was released in America as FFIII for anyone who doesn't get the reference).

For the record, the proper abbreviation is Fx.

Tab To Window does what you want. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2062/

No, they removed e-mail functionality to avoid cluttering up the 'Tools' menu.

Security / Privacy Context UI redesign (the lock icon sucks; needs more detail)
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefox_Requireme nts#P1.2FMANDATORY_Features

Issue one major release every year (Fx 3 in 2007, Fx 4 in 2008, etc.) since it helps drive upgrades and adoption

Not only does Firebug provide excellent tools for debugging web applications, but it also has facilities for modifying web pages on the fly. Sometimes there is an annoying div on a webpage that I want to get rid of while reading, so I open the Firebug console and set its display property to none. There may be other extensions that provide similar features (Adblock Plus, Nuke This); however, the JavaScript console in Firebug is the ultimate tool for running your own code on 3rd party web pages, for those who know Javascrpt, that is.

Furthermore, the JavaScript console can be very helpful for those starting to learn JavaScript, like how the Python console is for Python beginners.

Not only does Firebug provide excellent tools for debugging web applications, but it also has facilities for modifying web pages on the fly. Sometimes there is an annoying div on a webpage that I want to get rid of while reading, so I open the Firebug console and set its display property to none. There may be other extensions that provide similar features (Adblock Plus, Nuke This); however, the JavaScript console in Firebug is the ultimate tool for running your own code on 3rd party web pages, for those who know Javascrpt, that is.

Furthermore, the JavaScript console can be very helpful for those starting to learn JavaScript, like how the Python console is for Python beginners.

Nobody wants AJAX. Nobody. It has been an absolute disaster for web users. Firefox has been patched no less than 100 times because of the holes it creates. The web browser gods are angered by this morphing of static pages into insecure applications. Enough's enough, web monkeys. It's time to burn the AJAX witch!

• Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool. Some of these updates will require a restart.
• One Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Visual Studio. The highest Maximum Severity rating for this is Important. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool. These updates will require a restart.
• One Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. The highest Maximum Severity rating for this is Important. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. These updates may require a restart.
• Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Office. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. These updates may require a restart.

Surely if you just need one website, it would be easier to install and use IE Tab than use Wine to emulate IE7.

I wonder whether Firefox's RefreshBlocker add-on would prevent this annoyance? I haven't often run into the problem myself, so I can't say I've tried it.

a much better link

I had already seen everything in your comment except createContextualFragment. Google "createContextualFragment" brought me this description which states: "This method is not part of a specification." Therefore, it is just as nonstandard as innerHTML.

So should I conclude that there is no W3C-approved way for a JavaScript program to call the HTML parser through the HTML DOM?

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