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Hi there, I'm missing updates to the Official Bit Torrents. They are still at 1.0.1 !!! Why does Mozilla not support in a timely manner a ligitimate use of a great P2P system, that could save them (and their mirrors) some money in the process and proof that P2P is not only about "stealing" copyrighted material. K

Roadmap is http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap-1. 0.html

Believe it or not, this is still a requirement. It's just down in the middle of the release notes under "Known Issues -> All Systems" (that is, not just Windows OS):

"Prior to installing Firefox 1.0.3, please ensure that the directory you've chosen to install into is clean and doesn't contain any previous Firefox installations."

Mozilla 1.8 will be released, just under a different name with QA done by the Seamonkey group instead of the Mozilla Foundation.

This is a pretty crappy bug they haven't fixed yet. On Windows, try saving a web page and when the Save As... dialog asks where the file should go, try traversing a shortcut. You can't.

I just use the zip'ed version.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2503 82
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig htly/2005-04-15-05-aviary1.0.1/

I never use installer versions of software if I don't have to.

Is it even a bug? Have you checked? If it isn't, have you filed one?

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7.7/

there you go

The link for "quite significant changes" goes to the 1.7x change list so of course those are significant.

How about a link to the changes in the new release, 1.7.7?

Right, and the correct link to the new features is here. As you can see there is not much new in there. Except for the security fixes which do seem important.

I am not surprised about it crashing when coming out of hibernation. FF is a cross-platform app and I am fairly certain that Linux does not have hibernation at all. So there may not be a lot of testing in that area.
You might want to sumbit a bug.
I don't see it on the buglist.

However, I think hibernate is a bit buggy. I know that the 1st time I used it, I could not get windows resume it. It just crashed, then booted normally. I have never used it since though.

And here's a link to the correct readme file for Mozilla 1.7.7 .

1.1 PR should be already out by now? What gives?

Check out the Firefox Roadmap to see what I mean.

It's Mozilla 1.7.7, there's nothing new we didn't already knew about. The update has the same security fixes (scroll down) as the new Firefox release, that's all...

/greger

I just adblock ads that are really annoying or that I don't feel like looking at when I'm viewing the site. This block most ads automatically, at least it did when I was using it a while ago.

Typing each of the first ten numerals into google gives:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Firefox has had Smart Keyword bookmarks for a while. Right click on any form entry field and click "Add a keyword for this search."

I just type "ups <tracking num>" and go; no need for Google. Also useful for dictionary/thesaurus.com, stock quotes, wikipedia, helpdesk tickets at work, Bugzilla, Google Local, Google maps, whatever. Some of these are built in already. After some initial getting-used-to, it's incredibly handy.

Microsoft breaking things doesn't help upgrades, indeed. Those sorts of security fixes are tricky, and sometimes the inherent functionality in use is the bug. Indeed the Mozilla folks just dealt with a similar matter for Firefox 1.0.3. For an amusing set of conversations check out Bugzilla bugs 289231 and 281988 where they successfully grappled with the same sorts of problems.

Microsoft breaking things doesn't help upgrades, indeed. Those sorts of security fixes are tricky, and sometimes the inherent functionality in use is the bug. Indeed the Mozilla folks just dealt with a similar matter for Firefox 1.0.3. For an amusing set of conversations check out Bugzilla bugs 289231 and 281988 where they successfully grappled with the same sorts of problems.

It already exists : that's called XULrunner
You're right though, it should benefit from IBM.

It struck me reading this headline that the Firefox dev team is under tremendous recruitment pressure, and it makes me wonder how all this cherrypicking of developers from the Firefox team, by the likes of Google and Big Blue, will impact the project's future development cycle.

Is this brain drain going to cripple the project eventually or contribute to the problems we've read in March about the Firefox development review process?

A little refresher....
The Mozilla Release Process
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 18, @06:25AM
from the every-time-you-ask-we-delay-it-one-hour dept.
David Gerard writes "Asa Dotzler from the Mozilla Foundation invited questions on his blog on the Mozilla release process. The answers are up."

Firefox Lead Now Working For Google
Posted by michael on Monday January 24, @03:50PM
from the speculate-all-you-want-we'll-make-more dept.
zmarties writes "In a very low key announcement on his blog, Ben Goodger, lead developer for Firefox, has announce that effective from a couple of weeks ago, he has become a Google employee. In practice his day to day job won't change that much, in that he will still lead Firefox through its forthcoming releases, but with Google paying his wages, we can be sure that new and interesting overlap between the Mozilla Foundation's browsers and Google's services are sure to develop."

Firefox Developer on Recruitment Policy
Posted by michael on Monday January 31, @03:05AM
from the cathedral-or-bazaar dept.
wikinerd writes "A Firefox developer talks about the project's controversial invitation-only developer recruitment policy and explains why Firefox will never grow up."

Problems With the Firefox Development Process
Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 06, @11:39PM
from the eyes-on-the-prize dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mike Connor, one of the core Firefox developers, is raising a flag concerning the Mozilla Firefox methodology of development. From his blog: "In nearly three years, we haven't built up a community of hackers around Firefox, for a myriad of reasons, and now I think were in trouble. Of the six people who can actually review in Firefox, four are AWOL, and one doesn't do a lot of reviews." In an earlier entry, he raised concrete concerns about the community involvement. Asa Dotzler recently elaborated on the process, as previously covered on Slashdot."

Mozilla Foundation in More Development Trouble
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 10, @07:44AM
from the who-will-get-the-kids dept.
sebFlyte writes "After the reports of problems with Firefox' development earlier this week there are now rumblings about more serious problems with the Mozilla Suite. Some developers want to spin the suite out as a community project that the foundation has no responsibility for, and others want to create a Firefox Foundation to deal with the success of the standalone browser."

To someone not familiar with X11 programs, this might seem like a bug, but it certainly is not. As anyone who is familar with X11 programs knows, to copy something, all you need to do is highlight it. This means that if Firefox did auto-highlight the url every time you type in an address, you'd have your clipboard contents stolen from you. This is the reason that Konqueror includes a "Clear Location Bar" widget beside the location bar which does exactly what you want: clears the location bar, sets focus to it, and doesn't mangle your clipboard. There is a similar feature for Firefox if you install the extension for it.

OK, where's the content? "Make sure to subscribe to our RSS feed or mailing list to be notified when we roll out new products and services." "In the mean time, we are proud to showcase the following community extensions for Firefox which are sponsored by Round Two." It seems like you were more interested in making fun of the person asking a legitimate question than really answering it. In doing so, you made yourself look like an ass.

If you don't need all the features of that extension, you can also follow these instructions to reveal Firefox's hidden tab options.

Most of Mozilla is MPL / GPL / LGPL tri-licensed; so if they use the MPL option, they allowed to distribute closed-source software based on Mozilla as long as all hidden code are their own.

Remember - Netscape used to have an AIM component; I'm pretty sure they made sure they won't need to sue themselves...

You mean like this?

Make a corporate-friendly, highly manageable release of Firefox: an MSI installer, so it can be easily deployed via Active Directory; management via Group Policy; default settings that don't make a mess of your roaming profile.

If Round Two did this, I imagine that they could make a decent income from organizations that are tired of IE but want something easier to deploy and maintain than Firefox.

Mozilla bug #74085, comment 113 expresses these shortcomings of Firefox better than I did and provides more information on the above issues.

Yup, and that's the reason for Quirks Mode. Old pages either have no doctype, or a doctype from a very old spec, so this triggers browsers' backwards-compatibility mode. Slap a new doctype atop your pages, and then yell "More features!", "Less bugs!" back and forth at yourself.

Looks like these boys beat you to it ;)

• Microsoft Corporation
• Mozilla Foundation
• Opera Software

I think he was probably looking for something more like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28948 0 for Firefox. Check the bugs that that one depends on.

I have a Gmail account I use for spammy stuff (posting on websites, joining forums (forae?), signing up for mailing lists) and I read it using Thunderbird and Gmail POP3

Considering what I use it for, I get astonishingly little spam through the gmail filter, and Thunderbird picks out the rest and moves it to my junk mail folder for periodic review. Twin filtering is the way to go...

Even with Firefox's LinkPreview you can't tell that whitehouse.org is not what you might think it should be.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-req uirements

You can see my work so far at the following links:

Wikipedia in Plucker format
Wikiquote in Plucker format
Wikitionary in Plucker format

..and of course, my beautiful anti-alias fonts for Plucker, made with PalmFontConv by Alexander Pruss.

I've also converted the Creating XPCOM Components book by Doug Turner and Ian Oeschger to Plucker format as well as the FreeBSD Handbook.

I have literally hundreds of similar-quality works I'll be releasing over the next few months to the community on an ongoing basis.

If there's something you'd like to see, just let me know

With Yahoo joining the club, the site obviously will get a tremendous boost in the aforementioned correlation of increased visitors producing increased accuracy. Also, with the Yahoo deal, and with other dynamic visitor-updated info sites like blogs being taken more seriously by the mainstream media, you can expect other high rolling companies to follow Yahoo's lead.

By the way, when I'm looking for an answer to any question that requires human interpretation to my query, I use ask-it-here. While I'm being informative, here's a link to a Firefox extension that lets you (I think by means of a right click) look up a word quickly on a number of sites including Wiki.

1. Get and run "StopListening"
2. Install Firefox
3. Install Media Player Classic
4. Install Thunderbird

   After that, the whole windows-update thingy becomes mostly irrelevant.

1. Get and run "StopListening"
2. Install Firefox
3. Install Media Player Classic
4. Install Thunderbird

   After that, the whole windows-update thingy becomes mostly irrelevant.

Mozilla also PGP signs their packages along with providing MD5 and SHA1 hashes for every release. For example, here is the U.S. English, win32 firefox's PGP signature, the signing key, and its MD5 and SHA1 hashes. Sadly, I don't see any direct links to this stuff anywhere on their main download page.

Mozilla also PGP signs their packages along with providing MD5 and SHA1 hashes for every release. For example, here is the U.S. English, win32 firefox's PGP signature, the signing key, and its MD5 and SHA1 hashes. Sadly, I don't see any direct links to this stuff anywhere on their main download page.

Mozilla also PGP signs their packages along with providing MD5 and SHA1 hashes for every release. For example, here is the U.S. English, win32 firefox's PGP signature, the signing key, and its MD5 and SHA1 hashes. Sadly, I don't see any direct links to this stuff anywhere on their main download page.

Mozilla also PGP signs their packages along with providing MD5 and SHA1 hashes for every release. For example, here is the U.S. English, win32 firefox's PGP signature, the signing key, and its MD5 and SHA1 hashes. Sadly, I don't see any direct links to this stuff anywhere on their main download page.

Doesn't work.

If you have autocomplete on, it stores credit cards in plaintext. Period.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18828 5

Status: VERIFIED
Resolution: WONTFIX

See also duplicates:
Bug 207479
Bug 231681
Bug 243425
Bug 258031
bug 257455
Bug 258364
Bug 262705
Bug 271203
Bug 277113
Bug 287274

So this isn't some minor bug that slipped through the cracks. It's been reported a dozen times at least, and willfully ignored every time.

Except Mozilla Firefox isn't licensed under the MPL tri-license. Instead it uses the Firefox End-User Software License Agreement. It prohibits modifying the Firefox trademarks and thus borders on being non-free software. Debian has had some issues with this new restriction.

Although it may be offtopic, but non-free software vendors aren't the only ones dropping support for popular products and disappointing their loyal users. Mozilla recently did that with Seamonkey, so that they could focus on Firefox.

Actually, it's very relevant, because it's exactly the point: since Mozilla is open source, if enough people are interested, it's easy for the browser suite version to live on even if the original maintainers are no longer pursuing it. And, it turns out that enough people are, so we get a solid maintainer transition plan and a workable future for Mozilla SeaMonkey. No such thing is possible with BitKeeper.

this will do the trick, and is something you'll likely enjoy using otherwise:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/morei nfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows &category=Web%20Annoyances&numpg=10&id=433

The Adblock extension is your friend. Imagine the "Block images from ..." contextual menu option on steroids.

I just installed Filterset.G for Adblock, and the first link I clicked on to test was Slashdot, and I see this story.

OK. So I have been seeing more popups in FF recently and I thought this might be cool.
I installed the extension (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ni ghtly/experimental/popupsdie/popupsdie.xpi), restarted, but using the Flash plugin test at http://chrisbenard.net/slashdot/ffpop.html I still get the popunder.
Am I missing something?

Flashblocker ? What's that ?!? You must be thinking of Flashblock.