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Firefox has a great plugin (Bookmarks Synchronizer 1.0.1) I use to save my bookmarks to my website; it uploads/downloads on exit/start so everything's current, but this takes a few seconds everytime you open or close the browser... a bit annoying, but very functional!

I want my browser to remember by last session (if I tell it to). Opera does this, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. Often when I am at the office (with a laptop), I have a browser with "X" number of tabs open. Sometimes I want to close the browser, go home, and finish what I was doing. I hate closing the browser and all tabs down and then either having to bookmark each page and then load them back up, or just remember the links, or leave the laptop on in my bag. I want it to load everything up that I had on my screen the last time so I can keep resarching with a doobie in my mouth. C'mon Firefox!

• An XML Vocabulary from W3C
  
• implemented in Mozilla
  
• the way to exchange between different software
  
• easy to transform to and interact with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
  

Wouldn't something like WebMailCompose be better, seeing as it's actually designed for this (as opposed to something that makes link out of text)?

(WebMailCompose is supposed to handle the mailto: links; I don't think it's system-wide though - just in the browser.)

Well, I work for the state, so we're pretty tightly bonded to MS, as most large organizations are. I also work with non-profits, and they're largely bound to MS as well, mainly because there aren't many tech savvy people in non-profits. Though I think the Montana Legal Services Association uses a lot of open source I think they're using squirrel mail, some open source online time clock, and are talking about using Sunbird, the Mozilla calendar project (they don't run Exchange and they have no calendaring at the moment. . . )

Sounds like you need to be using Firefox, a free open source web browser... suitablly equipped with the Adblock extension. Then you wouldn't keep seeing the Microsoft adverts :-)

Not having to read the Microsoft adverts will therefore increase your productivity. Proof that Open Source software improves TCO!

Do we really need an AOL browser that allows us to access AOL stuff during company time?

Well I've got an Open Source Browser that lets me view Open Source information on Company Time.

what's the difference?

(sooo posting anonymously)

Whilst you're at it, why don't you "accidentaly" install reloadevery and set to reload every, say, 2 seconds...?

The Mozilla project contains a couple of embedable JavaScript engines. http://www.mozilla.org/js/

Check this out:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_me mcache

You can specify how much RAM FF uses for its memory cache.

I changed mine and FF is using 60M with 12 tabs open.

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The reference site for extension and themes is now http://update.mozilla.org/ . I even binded it to the throbber button. [Sorry for the double post, HTML issues]

Some projects that use Spidermonkey that aren't all web browsers

This is because Firefox for Mac is Carbon, not Cocoa. The Cocoa Gecko-based browser is Camino.

SVG!!!

Speaking of bullshit...

By the way, check the date on 0.1. It says "2002-09-23". If you can't do the math, that's more than two years.

No, It's Mozilla's version of microsoft's XMLHTTP com object (they say so right in the docs).

>i>This part is off-topic, but doesn't that picture of Larry Ellison that is floating around in Slashdot's banner ads look like the evil professor in Real Genius whose house is destroyed by popcorn?

You can see the banner ads? WTF?!? This place is for Geeks... get Firefox or get out! :D

Management wants me to tell them what I want, and tell them soon as in within the week.

Or should that be December 11th?

Stay on dude, it's scary: Status bar

Now that Thunderbird 1.0 is out, who wants to volunteer to turn that functionality into a TB extension?

From the article:

Surprisingly, AMP is not based on AOL's Winamp platform, only utilizing Winamp's "Unagi" playback engine. Instead, AMP is built atop the company's Communicator XUL user interface framework.

Aargh! How many times are BetaNews going to get this wrong? AOL Communicator does not use XUL. It uses wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows). They just keep on getting this wrong! Now I don't know what AOL Media Player is going to be based on.

I hired a ThunderBird to do my spam filtering for me. I understand the need for complex solutions sometimes but I would much rather collect all my mail and let T'Bird sort it out.

Nonetheless, we can do 2 things to protect ourselves. First, download and install FireFox. Use it for all secure transactions (i.e. "https") on the web. Set the security on your Internet Explorer to "HIGH", disabling Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, etc. Use Internet Explorer only for casual browsing.

On my computer, Internet Explorer is slightly faster for casual browsing than FireFox because Explorer is more tightly integrated into the operating system.

Anyhow, the second thing that you can do to protect yourself and the rest of Western society is to join the boycott of products that are "Made in China". It is having an effect on the West Coast. The boycott includes products made in Hong Kong and Taiwan province. Hurt the Chinese economy, and you will slap the Chinese to attention, forcing the brutes to fix the problem with spammers, etc.

Nonetheless, we can do 2 things to protect ourselves. First, download and install FireFox. Use it for all secure transactions (i.e. "https") on the web. Set the security on your Internet Explorer to "HIGH", disabling Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, etc. Use Internet Explorer only for casual browsing.

On my computer, Internet Explorer is slightly faster for casual browsing than FireFox because Explorer is more tightly integrated into the operating system.

Anyhow, the second thing that you can do to protect yourself and the rest of Western society is to join the boycott of products that are "Made in China". It is having an effect on the West Coast. The boycott includes products made in Hong Kong and Taiwan province. Hurt the Chinese economy, and you will slap the Chinese to attention, forcing the brutes to fix the problem with spammers, etc.

MozillaNews has a post describing how to unconditionally turn on the location bar in a window. This reveals that the popup comes from Secunia.com (Having the Spoofstick extension for Firefox also reveals the originating site. Also the Mozilla bug number is 273699.

According to MozillaNews the following work around can be applied to Mozilla/Firefox:

1. Enter about:config in the Location Bar.
2. Enter dom.disable_window_open_feature.location in the filter field.
3. Right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac OS) the preference option and choose Toggle (the value should change to true).

This issue is already being worked on bug 273699 (copy link location, paste) filed a few hours ago.

As a side note, being able to see the bug fixing progress unfold is one of the many reasons why i love open source. I am able to learn so much from just seeing the process take place from start to finish, how it is reported, test cases created, problems that arise, insights into other parts of the system, who the people involved are, reviews, patches, etc.

Wow, so it does! Bug report dutifully sent to Apple.

I sense a fix will be on its way ... as soon as I download Camino or perhaps Firefox.

Wow, so it does! Bug report dutifully sent to Apple.

I sense a fix will be on its way ... as soon as I download Camino or perhaps Firefox.

And here is a very good link that will keep you from getting your pants in a bunch when people forget to link URLs.

As an aside, it's not that hard, people, just enclose your URL like this: <URL:http://your.url.here.com/>, and the magic of /. transforms it into http://your.url.here.com/

The NukeAnything extension is great at removing floating divs. It collapses whatever element recieves a click event from it.

There's no PPC (or PalmOS) sync for now. It's on the todo list for the Sunbird project, but I don't know about mail.

I am an idiot. Correct Link

Sunbird is the calendar you're looking for. Also, there's an XPI (IIRC) that's been around for quite a while that will plug into Mozilla, Firebird, or Thunderbird (Sunbird is actually a fork of this XPI to a standalone program). It's called Mozilla Calendar. Both are available at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

Chase Phillips

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/0.10.1/KEY

Since they mised the "rc" from the end of the link here's one that worked. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird /releases/1.0rc/ Maybe it was a deal to avoid the /. effect :)

I think very very few people really need regex search/filtering. For detached attachment, Thunderbird planned it for 2004 originally but dropped finally. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/plans. html

What is the key it was signed with?

Release notes are available here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releas es/

That's because I use Adblock!

Ho ho ho!

I'm wondering if the internet ad revenue economy will just collapse because of my single act of civil disobedience. Perhaps the advertisers and content pages will just get pissy and make jpg's of all content and then put the files in the same directory of ads preventing wild card use.

Oh well it wasn't good content anyways.

Having something like AdBlock probably doesn't help their click % for Firefox either.

Hooray for extensions!

Why not just use thunderbird, it already has pretty good anti-spam capabilities in it to begin with and it's free and open source. I will admit I only installed it a few hours ago so I haven't been using it very long. The reason I installed it was because Eudora for OS X was very slow and for some reason was deleting my newest email every time I tried to download new email. Thunderbird is extremely fast, has better features, no popups, and is free. So far I have encountered no bugs, except some of the spam filtering features were a little unintuitive so I had to try them all out to see what did what.

wombatmobile claims

From March 2005 SVG becomes part of the standard Mozilla/FireFox build.

But the link provided doesn't indicate that SVG builds will become standard in Mozilla (suite, I assume) or Firefox builds. Where did this information about SVG becoming standard come from?

Thanks.

You got that right. Have been a long time Firefox user now, and very happy with it. But shameless call on Mozilla developers and project managers here: get your act together on issues like localization. Take the Dutch translation for example:

A lot of tam-tam was done around nov.9, when Firefox hit final 1.0 release. Parties were organised worldwide, and local Dutch media reported the release.

But in the Netherlands, you'd want a Dutch translation, right? Turns out older 0.9 releases had bad or incomplete translation (so lots of translation work had to be re-done), and catching up for 1.0 wasn't done during 1.0 pre-release period, but mostly started *after* 1.0 final release (sorry, but I think that's braindead project management style). As a result, it took some 3 weeks (!) after 1.0 release, until a quality, 'officially approved' Dutch translation was available (around dec.2). And when it finally was, very little mention of it in local media. But there's more:

As a Dutch user, you'd try some URL's: Firefox.nl (used by some unknown party), Mozilla.nl (fake, nothing to see here) or http://nl.mozilla.org (says "host not found" here). There DO exist several Dutch Mozilla-related sites, like MozBrowser.nl, but no link to be found anywhere on Mozilla.org. Also, it's possible to install English language version, locale-switcher extension and a language pack, to obtain non-English Firefox. But no mention, or links to this, on Mozilla.org site either (or damn near impossible to find).

Okay, I know Mozilla is a large project, but how hard is it for instance, to make <countrycode>.Mozilla.org domains work, point those to country/language-specific sites, and provide some basic info on options, status and downloads for translations there? Mozilla organisation could improve a lot here. For Dutch translation alone: Netherlands have some 16 million people, computer use & broadband is very common here, so huge potential for localized Mozilla builds.

"You think that is air you're breathing?"

Think you might be wanting the MiniMo Project?

Minimo Project

I wondered when this would eventually get posted to the front page of /. John Haller has also started work on Portable Sunbird so you can keep your calendars and task schedules with you on the go. It is currently at Alpha1, and is just a launcher and instructions on how to set it up, but it works.


Portable Sunbird (USB Drive-Friendly)

Also, although it only supports devices running embedded Linux, their is another project at the Mozilla Foundation called MiniMo (for Mini Mozilla) that allows you to run either of the Mozilla browsers on your handheld. This currently only supports ARM devices. A version of this to run on ARM/Xscale with PocketPC2002+ is probably going to be released in the future, by what I have gathered.

MiniMo Project

I am not sure how much of this is redundant information, as I haven't read through all the comments yet.

An open-source word processor with many features, including autotext and overline. Read how you can type Arabic, Cyrillic, or Hebrew. Users of Windows 95/98/ME need a third-party CJK enabler such as NJStar Communicator or AsianSuite X2 to input Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Windows 2000 and XP support right-to-left languages at the system level.
Users of Windows 95, 98 or ME can type right-to-left in bidirectional applications such as

• Browsers and Email Clients
• Internet Explorer and Outlook Express 5.01 or later
• Mozilla 1.0 or later
• Netscape6.2 or later

• Word Processors and Text Editors
• Microsoft Word 2000 or XP
• WordPad for Windows Millenium
• WordPad for Windows 98 with the RichEdit3.0 update
• AbiWord BiDi
• DingDang Write 2000
• Sharmahd Computing UniPad

Why not use Bookmarks Synchronizer or SyncMarks?

Why not use Bookmarks Synchronizer or SyncMarks?

Try the Bookmark Synchronizer extension, available here. I use it all the time, and it works flawlessly. Supported protocols: FTP and HTTP/HTTPS (with PUT/GET, install WebDAV or mod_put for this)

firefox.exe -profile path_to_profile