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I use Thunderbird but i also use it as my main mail client so YMMV
Free Agent

You can easily change that:
With this...

I'm considering distributing binaries entirely made from the free source if anyone is interested. I've also filed a Bugzilla bug asking for free binaries @ftp.mozilla.org.

I'm considering distributing binaries entirely made from the free source if anyone is interested. I've also filed a Bugzilla bug asking for free binaries @ftp.mozilla.org.

You should try the Firefox extension called "FireSomething". It changes your browser name upon each new window launch. The names are drawn from a list. Two actually; one from column A and one from column B. They are customizable.

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/morei nfo.php?application=firefox&version=0.9&os=all&cat egory=Humor&numpg=10&id=31

No need for an extensions, you can block it with CSS. A rule for:

table[border="0"][cellpadding="3"][cellspacing=" 0" ][height="40"][width="100%"],

Should get most of their ads without too many innocents.

I guess Dave Hyatt never did pay the $50 to Ben. So he had to leave for Google.

Google toolbar like... https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/morei nfo.php?application=firefox&version=0.9&os=Windows &category=Search%20Tools&numpg=10&id=33

Or use Adblock

• Microsoft firewall: off
• Active spyware checking: not installed
• Threats for using IE instead of Mozila/Firefox :non-existent

So the real heros can be found under http://www.mozilla.org/credits/

Happens even without extentions (Although I've just installed a new plugin to try and fix it.

Read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21752 7

It seems to be "reflowing". There is another (much less extream than mine) screenshot, too.

Firefox only runs on W98 and above. K-Meleon can run on W95. What could be geekier than updating software on a W95 box?

Look no further...

I've got an AMD 1800 and I've never seen any issues either.
Here is the actual bug report though. It has to do with the left column size not always being correct. I don't think I've ever seen this happen to me though.
Link

You know there's a Firefox port for OSX, right?

Mozilla and Firefox internally cap the value of the pipeline depth to 8 requests. Setting it any higher than 8 has no effect.

Mozilla and Firefox internally cap the value of the pipeline depth to 8 requests. Setting it any higher than 8 has no effect.

Depending on where you look, a Windows/Linux MUD server, or a Mozilla project building a mail/news reader entirely in Java.

Who'd have thought they'd make a movie of that? ;)

Firefox 1.1 is going to be based on the trunk. So it's got a few rendering fixes.

1.1 also contains some decent enhancements.

IMHO adoption will pick up when 1.1 is released and some of these fixes take place.

1.1 will also have a MSI, which will make it easier for corporations to deploy Firefox to computers within their organization. That will allow for more Firefox gains.

Does anyone know it there is there any progress in porting Gecko to these platforms?

if by "crush" you mean it would have run anti-spy-ad-thing-a-jig daily as opposed to the mini. then yes. it would "crush" the mini.

Strange, I just ran a spyware checker on my sole XP machine for the first time in 3 months and didn't find anything but a few cookies.

Perhaps it is because I use decent browsers ?

May this be a lesson for any large company - if you hold back your division from doing what the customer wants, someone else will come and take your business and you probably will never get it back. Where would Apple be now if they didn't port iTunes to Windows?

I think Microsoft is about to get some education. Most people can tolerate Windows on desktop, but servers are no-no for big companies in terms of performance, scalability (SMP/64 bit/massive multitasking), security or remote administration.

The writing is on the wall - just look at Apache vs IIS market share. When talking to generic backends, Microsoft client software often has no special advantages and competition is starting to sneak up on them. Still think anyone will pay for Windows for a browser-only terminal?

The only way for them to salvage a big chunk of their market share is to port exchange, IIS, SQL Server and the rest of "BackOffice" to Linux and do whatever corporate customers say they need to use it - get behind Samba, make IIS an Apache plugin, make their own Linux distribution. But I suspect it's far more likely we'll one day see Steve Balmer coming to IBM keynotes and confessing his mistakes.

SpoofStick

It's not perfect, but it'll help.

1. Call your financial institution before even attempting to use the web. They generally have toll-free numbers, and major ones tend to have 24 hour customer service. Ask them if there really is a problem with your account, and if there is, ask them how to remedy it.
2. If you run IE, shut it down and use Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, or some other browser. If you don't want to go through the downloading, go into your internet preferences and disable ALL forms of ActiveX and VBScript.
3. If it's an email claiming to be your bank or other financial institution and they ask you to click on a link contained therein, don't do it. Go to your web browser and type in the link manually.
4. If you use Firefox, try installing something like SpoofStick

Sometimes, the simplest things you do can make all the difference whether your account gets compromised or not.

Show me the browser support for XSL?

• Overview
• Internet Explorer supports client-side XSLT
• Mozilla supports client-side XSLT

Thanks. Where do I get a functional calendar to go along with it?

(Sunbird isn't even close to what Outlook can do.)

If you look on this webpage, there is a paypal subscribe button.

You can 'subscribe' to Thunderbird too.

IMHO that's a better option. Cheaper, better software. ;-)

If you look on this webpage, there is a paypal subscribe button.

You can 'subscribe' to Thunderbird too.

IMHO that's a better option. Cheaper, better software. ;-)

This is wonderful news for Mozilla. With the increasing popularity of FireFox among non-geeks, now is the perfect time to convert Outlookers to Thunderbird.

'The new service, which costs $59.95 per year, will let people organize e-mail, contact lists and calendars in their online Hotmail accounts using the Microsoft Outlook program most often found on businesses' desktop computers.'

There is a free preview available here.

It's not exactly the same thing but, I use 'User Agent Switcher'. I'm under the same requirements for both internal and external web sites, it has yet to fail me. User Agent Switcher

As a developer who has been forced to use IE in applications in the past, I can say that the Microsoft "Web Browser Control" is basically the IE rendering engine encapsulated in an OCX. Its extremely simple to include this rendering engine in any windows application. I'd imagine it would be trivial to write a firefox extension* that parses the URL and loads an IE control in a new "empty" frame if the URL is on the white list, then passes the URL to the control to be handled.

We might be able to use one of the tabs modification extensions that already exists as a starting point for usurping default firefox tab behavior, and I'd be interested in helping with a project of this nature.

*I have no experience writing firefox plugins, but the variety that are available show that the architecture is fairly extensible.

A much simpler, but much less integrated approach would be to use a "URL Launcher." Basically, a program that determines if the domain from the URL entered is "IE-only" or not and fires the appropriate browser accordingly. This would be a 5-10 minute project for a good developer, but would be effective.

Josh.

There is a Firefox extension that shows preview images (thumbnails) of the sites in the google search results page:

GooglePreview Firefox extension

Don't forget to put it in the Chrome subdirectory of the profile, not directly in the profile.

Don't forget to put it in the Chrome subdirectory of the profile, not directly in the profile.

I'll bet TargetAlert could easily be tweaked to do this.

Why not modify Firefox (or provide a plugin) that allows such links to be grayed out or otherwise marked specially?

Actually, are there any plugins already in existence that modify the appearance of a link based on a regexp match?

Let me introduce you to the wondeful world of userContent.css.

Something like this should work:

a[rel="nofollow"] {
text-decoration: line-through ! important;
border-bottom: dotted thin gray ! important;
color: gray ! important
}

In the meantime, there's plain text links. :)

Check out the Essential CVS book from O'Reilly: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cvs/. It's concise and told me almost all I needed to know to manage my company's first CVS server for the last two years.

Bonsai is the best tool I've seen for digging through CVS's not-so-friendly history output. It's web-based, and provides a nice interface for creating pointed queries to see who did what and when. The setup is a little bit arcane, but once you've got it going, it's very handy to have in your toolbox.

The GUI clients for MySQL are lacking ... I'm still confused what cheap/free GUI clients are available for MySQL since MySQL.com abandonded their MySQLGUI project.

This is a place where i can really see mozilla as a platform/XUL shining. There is already an addin for mozilla to access SQL directly here. The only thing i'm waiting on is an itunes style editable treeview - at the moment you can put progress meters and tickboxes in a tree cell, but you can't make them editable. And you can't make an editbox appear over the cell you double click on because of this bug. (copy this location into a new window as bugzilla doesn't allow slashdot referers).

XUL has massive advantages over Access because it's all human readable/editable. It's a shame the learning curve of mozilla's codebase is so steep otherwise i'd add editability to the tree myself.

The GUI clients for MySQL are lacking ... I'm still confused what cheap/free GUI clients are available for MySQL since MySQL.com abandonded their MySQLGUI project.

This is a place where i can really see mozilla as a platform/XUL shining. There is already an addin for mozilla to access SQL directly here. The only thing i'm waiting on is an itunes style editable treeview - at the moment you can put progress meters and tickboxes in a tree cell, but you can't make them editable. And you can't make an editbox appear over the cell you double click on because of this bug. (copy this location into a new window as bugzilla doesn't allow slashdot referers).

XUL has massive advantages over Access because it's all human readable/editable. It's a shame the learning curve of mozilla's codebase is so steep otherwise i'd add editability to the tree myself.

How's that? Firefox 1.0 sources are available here .

Say isn't Mozilla tripple-licenced?
GPL is only one of the licences.
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
One of the licence gives Netscape certain rights, since Mozilla is based on the old Netscape code.
And AOL paid for nearly all the development that went into Mozilla before the founding of the Mozilla foundation. Mozilla would not exist without Netscape and AOL, at least not in the current form.
I am not sure wich rights Netscape has, but it may even be legal for them to withhold any sourcecode changes they make under NPL.

OOo is not consistent with the OSX menu scheme? You must remind yourself of one fact: OpenOffice is not an OSX suite, it is not written or published by Apple in any way. If they want to be a true multi-platform office solution, then it is lunacy to adopt a Mac-specific UI.

A certain multi-platform Web browser and a certain multi-platform mail reader have UIs that are at least somewhat more Mac OS X-like on OS X than OOo's UI is, so it's not as if multi-platform apps can't look at all like native apps. Firefox/Thunderbird are, admittedly, not as native in look and feel as other apps, but I have the impression that's considered by the developers as a deficiency that should eventually be fixed.

OOo is not consistent with the OSX menu scheme? You must remind yourself of one fact: OpenOffice is not an OSX suite, it is not written or published by Apple in any way. If they want to be a true multi-platform office solution, then it is lunacy to adopt a Mac-specific UI.

A certain multi-platform Web browser and a certain multi-platform mail reader have UIs that are at least somewhat more Mac OS X-like on OS X than OOo's UI is, so it's not as if multi-platform apps can't look at all like native apps. Firefox/Thunderbird are, admittedly, not as native in look and feel as other apps, but I have the impression that's considered by the developers as a deficiency that should eventually be fixed.

Redhat uses Postgres with their Bugzilla installation, and there is a thread about Postgres compatibility on the Mozilla bugtracker here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304

Have you tried Tools, Options, Advanced, Tabbed Browsing? You may also need want to think about Single Window Mode.

It's actually part a thunderbird problem to some extent I think (it should ask nicely before overwriting a current tab/window), Linky extension may help.

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/morei nfo.php?application=thunderbird&version=1.0&os=Win dows&id=425
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/linky.html

"The original company was bought by America Online and its Web browser gradually faded into irrelevance, but a group of programmers took the guts of Netscape and created a new browsing "engine" called Gecko, one that was developed in a co-operative fashion along with the "open-source" software community. That engine forms the basis for a new browser called Firefox, which is free for Windows and Mac users."

Windows Update is the big reason Firefox users keep having to use Internet Explorer. There's an ActiveX plugin for Firefox out there, but I don't know if (with masquerading the user agent) it will run Windows Update. Anyone tried this? There's also an extension that adds Windows Update to Firefox's Tools menu.