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1.) OS X builds of Firefox 1.5b1 are _much_ more stable than their 1.0.x cousins. If you take a look at the URL below you'll see a great big stack of bugfixes, including many for OS X.

http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5 b1.html

2.) That sounds like an issue with JavaScript menus - I doubt it's the browser's fault per se; it could be an issue with the way the menu is designed.

You look like you should give a shot at Pornzilla, would probably shed a new light on the whole porn thing.

That may be good for nightly testers, but it's a horrible idea for regular users. Something as important as the web browser should be consistent with all the other installed software on the system; randomly updating it just because a new version is out is not a good idea.

Here we go, from The Unofficial 1.5 Beta 1 Changelog.
(Great resouce, should have been with this story.)

>302721 - Implement update service channels (e.g. "nightly trunk", "nightly branch", "betas and releases", "releases only").

Go to about:config, filter for app.update.channel and you'll see your currently selected update group. 1.5b is, appropriately enough, in the beta group. I'm using nightly branch builds, and so in the nighly updates. Regular users using regular releases will continue with the regular update service, as before.

There are no longer zip builds for releases, but there are still zip builds for nightlies. Find the nightly zip that corresponds to the release (in this case, 2005-09-08 branch nightly) and download the zip.

try pornzilla enhancements to firefox.

http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/

you won't be disappointed

your gf might be though

It's already here! Check pornzilla

The first thing I thought of when I read the title was keyword bookmarklets:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/keywords.ht ml

One of those things that seems could be made more useful with some "Ajax" here and there.

The View Selection bookmarklet on this page: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.ht ml is another way to fix the problem.

Select the screwed up text and click the bookmarklet, to open the text in a new, properly wrapped window.

I use the ROT13 bookmarklet written by Jesse Ruderman (maintainer of the Burning Edge Blog)

Fixed in Firefox 1.1 according to this.

Extension writers don't have to parse history.dat. They can access History using RDF (example 1, example 2).

Extension writers don't have to parse history.dat. They can access History using RDF (example 1, example 2).

How'd I Get Here

Using some bookmarklets can help.

Try "zoom layout" to increase the size of fixed elements or "zap style sheets".

"linearize" and "printer friendly" can help in reading text also.

You might want to take a look at Jesse Ruderman's "How'd I Get Here" extension that supports Firefox 1.1's extended history support. I don't think it has graphical thumbnails, but then again, I don't think I'd really want that much clutter (IMHO, YMMV).

http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/high/

It's not like all these changes just spring up overnight. Use nightly (or hourly) trunk builds and you'll be up to date long before these releases or preview releases. I fully understand there's a reason for these sorts of dev previews, but the real testers and developers have been using these features and fixes for quite a long time now.

Trunk builds are quite nice for even the regular user, so long as you're willing to put up with a few issues from time to time. The tradeoff for bug fixes and new features is well worth it, if you know what you're doing. If a really big bug comes along, just use an older build for a week or so. You extensions will usually be A-OK from build to build, but if something breaks them odds are you would have had to version-bump or reinstall them anyway on the next release. Give it a shot. It was fun using livemarks and find as you type before the release, and it's fun using things like fast back and the improved rendering before every else.

http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/ - Not updated much anymore, but still a decent resource.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig htly/ - Nightly builds

http://bonsaibugs.org/pyblosxom.cgi/firefox/latest - Latest bug fixes

This entry in Asa Dotzler's blog contains links for downloading this release candidate of Deer Park Alpha 1.1.

The article has links to New Web Developer Features and New Extension Developer Features. There's also a page listing New Browser Features and an unofficial page listing Notable bug fixes.

Will this work for you in IE ?

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html# remember_password

works fine in firefox.

Lots of people say that modal dialogs are a mistake and that they shouldn't be used. I don't know who, but they are saying it.

As far as javascript goes, it is really fairly modern and quite complete. The lack of any sort of standard library is a problem, but there isn't really any reasonable mechanism for one anyway. Check out: http://www.crockford.com/ and specifically http://www.crockford.com/javascript/little.html. Also see http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/. Both of these sights are examples of good use of javascript, and both go quite beyond the hackish crap that comes to mind when many people think of javascript. Ok, so maybe the stuff on crockford.com isn't super useful, but it does serve to demonstrate what js is capable of.

You don't specifically need Greasemonkey for that (although GM would be able to do this automatically) - there is a bookmarklet available here which will do the trick:

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html# remember_password

Very useful ;)

Pornzilla ;o)

Yep, you definitely weren't the only one. I converted two friends alone because they were serial wankers and Firefox seemed a much better option. (One was thankful for the possibility of having several password-protected profiles on one desktop.)

Like we didn't know that already!
http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/why-firefox.ht ml

So that I can make use of slashdot journals and Firefox extensions...

Hey man, with the appropriate extensions, Firefox is pretty good for viewing pornographic materials. That is, if you're into that sort of thing.

I've already got Google Ads in Firefox.

Take that, Google!

It's only installed in some result pages, when they are very sure that the first result is the right one. e.g. stanford or grand-canyon. It proably uses the same criteria for selection as browse by name: http://www.squarefree.com/2004/09/09/googles-brows e-by-name-in-firefox

Nope, that change log is ripped from the unofficial incomplete Firefox 1.1 release notes at Burning Edge. As wrong as you can be.

Try this instead:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0 .1.html

Firstly, don't plagarise. Cite your sources. Your list is an exact copy of http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.1 .html.

Secondly, if you do plagarise, make sure you steal the right frigging document! You posted a changelog for the not-yet-released Firefox 1.1. This is Firefox 1.0.1. Its changelog can be found at http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0 .1.html.

Firstly, don't plagarise. Cite your sources. Your list is an exact copy of http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.1 .html.

Secondly, if you do plagarise, make sure you steal the right frigging document! You posted a changelog for the not-yet-released Firefox 1.1. This is Firefox 1.0.1. Its changelog can be found at http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0 .1.html.

Hmm, a handful of fairly minor security bugs. Makes you wonder why they're releasing a new version already..

"More security holes fixed in Firefox 1.0.1 will be made public after Firefox 1.0.1 is released."
(from http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0 .1.html)

..unless there's something else we haven't heard about yet..?

Here is the full list of changes and related bugs for Firefox 1.0.1.

You'll note that it's quite terse - this is not the 1.1 update from trunk that will get us rendering fixes, etc. that we'll see in June or so. Almost all security fixes here.

... over at the burning edge.

Mayhaps this will join the Pornzilla project.

Yeah, but going to the right porn sites with the right plugins in Firefox can be sweet. Pretty much any TGP list with the linked images bookmarklet (opens up any link which is just a thumbnail linking to a bigger picture.) and mouse gestures with open selected links in new tabs enabled.

Now that makes for a faster wanking experience.

There's actually a bug in Gecko that causes the mis-render, and it's fixed in the code that will be 1.1. I saw this on the burningedge 1.1 fix list.

From the Unofficial Firefox 1.1 changelog:
New features
* 245392 - Installer options for where to put start menu / desktop / quick launch shortcut icons.
* 231062 - Provide Firefox MSI package.

Major improvements

* 124561 - Anonymous ftp login failure should prompt for username/password.
* 98564 - Caret overlaps the last character in textfield (if positioned after the last char).
* 151375 - Focus outline should be drawn outside of element.
* 133165 - Focus outline should include larger descendants of inline elements.
* 65917 - :active neither hierarchical nor picky about what can be activated.
* 175893 - Make XUL 's focusable.
* 20022 - :hover state not set until mouse move.
* 276588 - Rework toolkit command-line handling. You can now open local files easily from the command-line (e.g. firefox.exe README.txt), and command-line switches should do the same thing whether Firefox is running or not.
* 95227 - Make it possible to set different default font type (serif vs sans serif) for different languages.
* 16940 - [Windows] IME is now disabled for password fields.
* 151249 - [Mac] Middle click on link does nothing on Mac OS X (should open link in new tab).
* 242845 - [Mac] Firefox disk image should use .dmg internal zlib-compression, not .dmg.gz.
* 238854 - [GTK2] Changing GNOME2 theme doesn't apply until restarting Mozilla.

And yes, they are also targeting the famous Slashdot rendering bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2175 27). Copy&paste the link to your browser since diredt linking to bugzilla from slashdot doesn't work.

The Burning Edge keeps a running ChangeLog for the next version. It's not offical, but it's still fairly accurate.

http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.1 .html

In fact, someone could create a fully open source spyware program! Then all you'd have to do is convince people to install it. That's the easy part.

Install Adbar now! ;-)

Or look at this.

If you use a ROT-13 bookmarklet (google for it, maybe at E2), you will find that the parent is correct.

Thanks for the hint, I found it here. I want the rot13 in my right-click menu, though.

-Anonymous Phil

The porn industry is, as usual, one step ahead. MiltonSoft's Thumbnail Gallery Finder lets you search a large database of porn galleries for copies of an image you have. It recognizes images even when they are cropped or resized, and it sometimes recognizes that two photos from the same set are "similar" even though they are not the same photo. It's a great solution for the "incomplete photoset" problem. It even comes with a Firefox extension (which I wrote) that lets you right-click an image to find more galleries containing it.

javascript:(function(){ function zoomImage(image, amt) { if(image.initialHeight == null) { /* avoid accumulating integer-rounding error */ image.initialHeight=image.height; image.initialWidth=image.width; image.scalingFactor=1; } image.scalingFactor*=amt; image.width=image.scalingFactor*image.initialWidth ; image.height=image.scalingFactor*image.initialHeig ht; } var i,L=document.images.length; for (i=0;i<L;++i) zoomImage(document.images[i], 2); if (!L) alert(%22This page contains no images.%22); })();

javascript:(function(){ function zoomImage(image, amt) { if(image.initialHeight == null) { /* avoid accumulating integer-rounding error */ image.initialHeight=image.height; image.initialWidth=image.width; image.scalingFactor=1; } image.scalingFactor*=amt; image.width=image.scalingFactor*image.initialWidth ; image.height=image.scalingFactor*image.initialHeig ht; } var i,L=document.images.length; for (i=0;i<L;++i) zoomImage(document.images[i],.5); if (!L) alert(%22This page contains no images.%22); })();

I always get pissed when my TGP sites do a crappy job of describing the links they have.

You should try Thumbs, a Firefox extension. One click on the Thumbs button lets you see the first thumbnail from every gallery a TGP links to.

Your post implies that Opera "works better out of the box" than Firefox, but that isn't my expierence. I'd give the "works out of the box" point to Firefox.

Opera - Little setup required on first install

Opera 8.0 forced me to make two choices the first time I ran it: the types of ads to show, and whether to use tabs or windows or some "advanced" mode that it doesn't even attempt to describe. It also forced me to make a choice the first time I tried to use autoscroll (it asked me what should happen when I middle-click on links). By contrast, when I install Firefox for the first time, it only asks me whether I want to import settings from another browser.

Opera's defaults are also poorer than Firefox. For example, it starts at the last page I had open rather than my home page, and it opens mailto: links in its internal mail client.

Firefox - Plugins and configuration needs to be done before you get all the functionality you want

I do use several extensions in Firefox, but they all provide features that aren't available in Opera at all. (I use Thumbs, Search Keys, and Google Pagerank Status.)

Your post implies that Opera "works better out of the box" than Firefox, but that isn't my expierence. I'd give the "works out of the box" point to Firefox.

Opera - Little setup required on first install

Opera 8.0 forced me to make two choices the first time I ran it: the types of ads to show, and whether to use tabs or windows or some "advanced" mode that it doesn't even attempt to describe. It also forced me to make a choice the first time I tried to use autoscroll (it asked me what should happen when I middle-click on links). By contrast, when I install Firefox for the first time, it only asks me whether I want to import settings from another browser.

Opera's defaults are also poorer than Firefox. For example, it starts at the last page I had open rather than my home page, and it opens mailto: links in its internal mail client.

Firefox - Plugins and configuration needs to be done before you get all the functionality you want

I do use several extensions in Firefox, but they all provide features that aren't available in Opera at all. (I use Thumbs, Search Keys, and Google Pagerank Status.)

http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/?

You don't need an extension to ensure that the phrase "horrid blood sucking registration required" appears next to NYT links. Simply add this to your user style sheet:

a[href^="http://www.nytimes.com/"]:after { content: " (horrid blood sucking registration required)"; }

The reason you were able to save your password previously was because GMail did not originally have the autocomplete="off" attribute on their login form. They later added this attribute to their form, preventing you from saving your password from that point on.

To override this, you can use the Remember Password bookmarklet from http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html
Go to the gmail page and right click on the sign in box and choose "This Frame" > "Show only this Frame" from the context menu. Then use the Remember Password bookmarklet and sign in. You should then be prompted to save your password.

...the latest nightly has been working flawlessly for me all of today.

You picked a great time to use the nightly trunk build. With the 1.0 branch being synced up to the trunk this causes many side effects, not all of them good.

But if you know nothing about software development I suggest visiting here.