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I've also seen problems painting the screen with various artifacts, almost always when I've been scrolling with a wheel mouse.

This is a known problem (bug 121230) with alpha-transparent PNGs: drawing partial images doesn't work correctly, as it seems to flip the image vertically before selecting which chunk to render.

I'd like a page on the mozilla site explaining what the ... required-by-law [folder is]

required-by-law contains software whose license (typically GNU GPL or LGPL) requires those who distribute binaries to also mirror the full source distribution of all packages involved in the build that don't already come with the operating system. From the GNU GPL (the LGPL has similar wording):

For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains ... [except] anything that is normally distributed ... with the major components ... of the operating system ... If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code

So far, such packages include GLib and GTK+, which are both under the LGPL.

The "experimental" folder contains builds that demonstrate new large patches. It's part of the Patch Landing Tool.

For example the IPC bug (68702), which has had a patch ready and submitted is continually getting shuffled further and further back. The patch and bug were submitted more than a year ago now (2001-02-13 11:34).

(This is a serious question, not FUD)

--Azaroth

However, registering the plugin with regxpcom (the prefered method of installing the plugin) fails (segfaults for me, on RHL 7.2). The Windows installer tries to use regxpcom automatically, so that's why it appears to fail.

I believe this is because the xpcom or oji api changed in later versions of mozilla, while the Sun plugin is still using the older version. Obviously things should get better once interfaces stabilise for 1.0

See buzilla bug #99337:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99337 (bah! bugzilla's down for maintainance atm)

No remote server hits for mail/news.

That bug requires that someone learn where to hook in a security policy token which is set based un a UI pref.

• experimental
• latest-AB OUTLINER
• latest-STATIC_TEST
• required-by-law
• see the bottom of this page.

Here's the timeline for 1.0 according to the good folks at Mozilla: Roadmap

enhancement request

i think this is a large flaw. i wish i knew c++.

These are bug 57724, bug 45583, and bug 40876. Get a Bugzilla account, and vote for these bugs to help encourage the Mozilla folks to fix them! They bug the crap out of me.

These are bug 57724, bug 45583, and bug 40876. Get a Bugzilla account, and vote for these bugs to help encourage the Mozilla folks to fix them! They bug the crap out of me.

These are bug 57724, bug 45583, and bug 40876. Get a Bugzilla account, and vote for these bugs to help encourage the Mozilla folks to fix them! They bug the crap out of me.

These are bug 57724, bug 45583, and bug 40876. Get a Bugzilla account, and vote for these bugs to help encourage the Mozilla folks to fix them! They bug the crap out of me.

Any mirrors?

What really sucks is that the lead developer of Multizilla has been gone and the newer builds of Mozilla have broken the plugin.

For those that don't know, the incomplete Tabbed Browser feature of Mozilla was copied from Multizilla...as a matter of fact, some code from Multizilla has actually made it into Mozilla...

When Mozilla hasn't broken its functionality, Multizilla is a much better interface than Mozilla's tabbed browser. Many of the features that are buggy or incomplete in Mozilla's implementation are working and have been enhanced in Multizilla.

But not to fear, we should start to see alot more reliability with the 1.0 release...

I don't know for sure, but the upcoming landings page indicates that there is some code due to be checked in any day now that adds the front end code for bookmark groups. Once that done snapshort tabs will either be included, or within reach of a small patch.

Try a nightly build in a week or two. The nightlies should be fairly stable now since all checkins until 1.0 have to be reviewed, super-reviewed and finally approved by the mozilla staff.

If you read the bugzillas about this, it's a good reality check about the open source concept. Sure, everyone can see the code and fix it, but this bug basically turned into a GIGANTIC committee meeting with most of the effort spent trying to figure out whether it should be classified as bug x, y, or z; and whether it should be address via a, b, or c.
See 22994, 30888, 119266

Am I a troll, or did I just blow your mind?

If you read the bugzillas about this, it's a good reality check about the open source concept. Sure, everyone can see the code and fix it, but this bug basically turned into a GIGANTIC committee meeting with most of the effort spent trying to figure out whether it should be classified as bug x, y, or z; and whether it should be address via a, b, or c.
See 22994, 30888, 119266

Am I a troll, or did I just blow your mind?

If you read the bugzillas about this, it's a good reality check about the open source concept. Sure, everyone can see the code and fix it, but this bug basically turned into a GIGANTIC committee meeting with most of the effort spent trying to figure out whether it should be classified as bug x, y, or z; and whether it should be address via a, b, or c.
See 22994, 30888, 119266

Am I a troll, or did I just blow your mind?

When you type a URL in the URL bar, wouldn't it be handy if it worked?

I have a good 60 or so bookmarks, and I hate taking the time to scroll to the bottom of the list. It's so much nicer in Netscape where it just spills over to an additonal column.

Of course, I'm sure that others prefer the current IE style scrolling, so I'd be happy if it is implemented as an option. If you agree with me, please Vote for this bug!

(rant)
Mozilla had a bug to create a full screen version for all platforms... It was implemented on windows, marked completed, and a new bug was created for all other platforms. It's marked moz 1.1 which kinda bums me out because everything but windows is getting low priority
(/rant)

Linux users unite... Go vote for fullscreen (other platforms)

(rant)
Mozilla had a bug to create a full screen version for all platforms... It was implemented on windows, marked completed, and a new bug was created for all other platforms. It's marked moz 1.1 which kinda bums me out because everything but windows is getting low priority
(/rant)

Linux users unite... Go vote for fullscreen (other platforms)

If you find that you use IE's window cloning (perhaps without even realising that you've started using) and really miss it under Mozilla, please vote on these bugs:

Bug 18808 - vote

Bug 110535 - vote

Bug 36269 - vote

If you find that you use IE's window cloning (perhaps without even realising that you've started using) and really miss it under Mozilla, please vote on these bugs:

Bug 18808 - vote

Bug 110535 - vote

Bug 36269 - vote

If you find that you use IE's window cloning (perhaps without even realising that you've started using) and really miss it under Mozilla, please vote on these bugs:

Bug 18808 - vote

Bug 110535 - vote

Bug 36269 - vote

If you find that you use IE's window cloning (perhaps without even realising that you've started using) and really miss it under Mozilla, please vote on these bugs:

Bug 18808 - vote

Bug 110535 - vote

Bug 36269 - vote

If you find that you use IE's window cloning (perhaps without even realising that you've started using) and really miss it under Mozilla, please vote on these bugs:

Bug 18808 - vote

Bug 110535 - vote

Bug 36269 - vote

If you find that you use IE's window cloning (perhaps without even realising that you've started using) and really miss it under Mozilla, please vote on these bugs:

Bug 18808 - vote

Bug 110535 - vote

Bug 36269 - vote

Tabs are a nice idea, but they're still quite immature in Mozilla. For instance, they don't close in the correct order, so they're no substitute for real tabs or MDI, as found in Galeon or Opera.

I accept that Mozilla is still in development, but many good ideas that make the GUI work better (like this one) are actually being turned down.

Something else that reminds me of this is there is no Apply button in the Themes Preferences dialog box.

I'm getting into many bad habits using Mozilla's interface, and when I go to use something that works properly I find myself doing what I would've done in Mozilla, and it doesn't work (and nor should it). It's a bit like people who double-click on web links. :-)

It seems to me that Mozilla's GUI is made to pacify Netscape 4 users, rather than making it as usable as it should be. I think this is bad for several reasons, not least because Netscape 6 still has a smaller market share than Netscape 4, so Netscape 4 users aren't migrating at all! To me this means that:
a) some users are sticking with Netscape 4
b) some users are moving to Internet Explorer or something else, because they're better, regardless of the menus being somewhat different

Maybe this shows us that open-source projects really need to spend more time on proper GUI guidelines, because as much as I hate products made by certain other companies (that one that makes Windows in particular), I find their apps much easier to use (when they don't crash, etc.).

I think I'm going to end up using Galeon or SkipStone, because the Mozilla rendering engine seems quite good -- it's the GUI holding Mozilla back (regardless of how pretty the "Modern" theme is!).

Having said this, I'm still downloading 0.9.9 :-)

Tabs are a nice idea, but they're still quite immature in Mozilla. For instance, they don't close in the correct order, so they're no substitute for real tabs or MDI, as found in Galeon or Opera.

I accept that Mozilla is still in development, but many good ideas that make the GUI work better (like this one) are actually being turned down.

Something else that reminds me of this is there is no Apply button in the Themes Preferences dialog box.

I'm getting into many bad habits using Mozilla's interface, and when I go to use something that works properly I find myself doing what I would've done in Mozilla, and it doesn't work (and nor should it). It's a bit like people who double-click on web links. :-)

It seems to me that Mozilla's GUI is made to pacify Netscape 4 users, rather than making it as usable as it should be. I think this is bad for several reasons, not least because Netscape 6 still has a smaller market share than Netscape 4, so Netscape 4 users aren't migrating at all! To me this means that:
a) some users are sticking with Netscape 4
b) some users are moving to Internet Explorer or something else, because they're better, regardless of the menus being somewhat different

Maybe this shows us that open-source projects really need to spend more time on proper GUI guidelines, because as much as I hate products made by certain other companies (that one that makes Windows in particular), I find their apps much easier to use (when they don't crash, etc.).

I think I'm going to end up using Galeon or SkipStone, because the Mozilla rendering engine seems quite good -- it's the GUI holding Mozilla back (regardless of how pretty the "Modern" theme is!).

Having said this, I'm still downloading 0.9.9 :-)

Tabs are a nice idea, but they're still quite immature in Mozilla. For instance, they don't close in the correct order, so they're no substitute for real tabs or MDI, as found in Galeon or Opera.

I accept that Mozilla is still in development, but many good ideas that make the GUI work better (like this one) are actually being turned down.

Something else that reminds me of this is there is no Apply button in the Themes Preferences dialog box.

I'm getting into many bad habits using Mozilla's interface, and when I go to use something that works properly I find myself doing what I would've done in Mozilla, and it doesn't work (and nor should it). It's a bit like people who double-click on web links. :-)

It seems to me that Mozilla's GUI is made to pacify Netscape 4 users, rather than making it as usable as it should be. I think this is bad for several reasons, not least because Netscape 6 still has a smaller market share than Netscape 4, so Netscape 4 users aren't migrating at all! To me this means that:
a) some users are sticking with Netscape 4
b) some users are moving to Internet Explorer or something else, because they're better, regardless of the menus being somewhat different

Maybe this shows us that open-source projects really need to spend more time on proper GUI guidelines, because as much as I hate products made by certain other companies (that one that makes Windows in particular), I find their apps much easier to use (when they don't crash, etc.).

I think I'm going to end up using Galeon or SkipStone, because the Mozilla rendering engine seems quite good -- it's the GUI holding Mozilla back (regardless of how pretty the "Modern" theme is!).

Having said this, I'm still downloading 0.9.9 :-)

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

• 17048 [RFE] Roaming access - keep bookmarks/cookies/history/etc in a central repository
  
• 17917 [RFE] Add "smart" roaming bookmarks (etc.) with sync capabilities
  
• 18043 [RFE] Allow bookmarks to reside remotely on an arbitrary user-defined host
  
• 18808 [RFE] New windows/tabs should inherit current page, back button/go menu history
  
• 41888 [RFE] Quickfile: 'File' bookmarks to cascading submenus, to file in folders (on the fly)
  
• 57805 front end for remapping keyboard shortcuts (user-defined keys)
  
• 78072 Mozilla should re-read bookmarks.html if it has been changed by another process
  
• 102130 RFE: Ability to "snapshot" all TABs in a window as bookmark [bookmark groups]
  
• 103843 New windows created by javascript and html should appear as tabs
  
• 126685 Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode (all platforms)

• 22687 [RFE] PGP Plugin
  

If you have a bug to report, or a suggestion to
make, can you take it to here?

--

For those wondering, yes, there is a spellchecker for Mozilla (bug 56301). Or, if you're in a hurry, the installer is right here.

I've been using David Einstein's spellchecker for week's now without problem. Of course, it has its own quirks (such as there being no way to dismiss the spellchecker and avoid sending the message) but it's still a tremendous effort.

For those wondering, yes, there is a spellchecker for Mozilla (bug 56301). Or, if you're in a hurry, the installer is right here.

I've been using David Einstein's spellchecker for week's now without problem. Of course, it has its own quirks (such as there being no way to dismiss the spellchecker and avoid sending the message) but it's still a tremendous effort.

Netscape Communicator 4.x had a primative but extremely useful Roaming Profiles function, but Mozilla doesn't. A lot of people have voted for it, but it just hasn't been a top coding priority. All is not lost, however:

Ben Bucksch of Beonex fame has offered to help complete this oft-requested oft-marked-as-no-time-to-implement feature. He's doing the work as a tip-jar sponsored project, so check out bug #124026 and contribute a little bit if you can.

Even if you aren't particularly interested in the roaming ability, it's an interesting situation to watch -- any open-source project the size of mozilla must have lots of opportunities for independent developers to jump in and work on a open-source-for-cash basis. If Ben is really successful here, it's a great case-study in a way for small developers to make money working at open source / free software. I'm curious to see how this example turns out....

Netscape Communicator 4.x had a primative but extremely useful Roaming Profiles function, but Mozilla doesn't. A lot of people have voted for it, but it just hasn't been a top coding priority. All is not lost, however:

Ben Bucksch of Beonex fame has offered to help complete this oft-requested oft-marked-as-no-time-to-implement feature. He's doing the work as a tip-jar sponsored project, so check out bug #124026 and contribute a little bit if you can.

Even if you aren't particularly interested in the roaming ability, it's an interesting situation to watch -- any open-source project the size of mozilla must have lots of opportunities for independent developers to jump in and work on a open-source-for-cash basis. If Ben is really successful here, it's a great case-study in a way for small developers to make money working at open source / free software. I'm curious to see how this example turns out....

Crap. My link was missing the protocol and Slash "fixed" it. Try this link instead.

Try an http://ftp.mozilla.org/... link instead. I always download by HTTP whenever an FTP server has it available.

They are indeed working towards 1.0 RCs. No more point releases. See the roadmap.

When you start typing in the URL bar, wouldn't it be handy if the result-list was sorted by most-frequently-accessed, or most-recently-accessed? Well, that has been proposed (bug 78270).

However, it's also marked Priority P4 and Future :(. But, you can vote for the bug to show your support (of course, you'll need a free Bugzilla account to vote).