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On the plus side, this finally provided a chance to stress-test Jesse's deleet bookmarklet. It did a pretty good job (albeit not perfect).

Not quite true, it's just that Mozilla has had a trunk release more recently. The Firefox nightlies have the same core features (layout engine, etc) as the Mozilla nightlies.

Note: Right now the Firefox nightlies are somewhat broken, since the 1.0 branch features were merged onto the trunk and that, as expected, caused problems. If you're not doing testing work, it's probably best to stay away from them for a few weeks, or check the Burning Edge to see recent bugfixes/regressions.

Another survey indicates that Firefox users were 81.3% more likely to spank the monkey.

for webpages, a zap white backgrounds bookmarklet will help you out

Don't label him as an enemy just because he claims to experience more crashes than you. It's entirely possible that he's telling the truth -- many crash bugs (not just system problems) affect some users more than others. Maybe his Firefox installation or Firefox profile somehow became corrupted. Maybe the sites he visits trigger crashes in Firefox more than the sites we visit. Maybe the extensions he uses are buggy (in which case he should blame the extension).

It's ok to tell him that his experience doesn't match yours, but at least give him a FAQ item that might help him work around or report the crashes rather than attacking him.

Mouse gestures, automatic numerical forward/back and image zoom, popup blocking, skinning, tabbed browsing and UA spoofing.

Ok, so I liked Opera when I used it for a while. But firefox kicks its butt. I prefered FF myself because there were no ads (although you can add them if you want them)

But all of these features are available as FF extensions... even adding google ads to your browser.

I don't want to sound like a zelot, but FF is cheaper, ad free and does all that plus some. Email client? IRC client? That's what Thunderbird/Chatzilla/Mozilla suite are for.

It's your money, but I know where I'll be putting mine. Straight back in my wallet.

Mouse gestures, automatic numerical forward/back and image zoom, popup blocking, skinning, tabbed browsing and UA spoofing.

Ok, so I liked Opera when I used it for a while. But firefox kicks its butt. I prefered FF myself because there were no ads (although you can add them if you want them)

But all of these features are available as FF extensions... even adding google ads to your browser.

I don't want to sound like a zelot, but FF is cheaper, ad free and does all that plus some. Email client? IRC client? That's what Thunderbird/Chatzilla/Mozilla suite are for.

It's your money, but I know where I'll be putting mine. Straight back in my wallet.

Mouse gestures are a FF/Moz extension, and Fast Forward can be installed as a bookmarklet in any browser.

Already thought of :-) Check out Pornzilla
Now the fox is ready to take over the world.

And example of releasing multiple builds would be the MAME group.

• New options for controlling where links from other applications open.
• New experimental options for controlling where links in web pages open. To make these experimental options appear, set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true in about:config.
• Firefox is now available in 14 languages.

• "Sort by name" in Bookmarks should sort siblings, not children.
• Information bar (blocked popup, missing plugin, etc) should be closeable.
• View Source should use Find Toolbar.
• Find toolbar loses content when new tab clicked.
• Disable sites reloading onresize. (Many sites reload onresize to work around bugs in Netscape 4. This caused problems in Firefox due to tabs, the Find bar, and information bars.)

Reading the daily firefox changelogs (http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/
)
"Because of the fix for bug 266221, these builds will not automatically update when Firefox 1.0 comes out. If you install 1.0 RC1 for friends, be sure to tell them to upgrade when 1.0 comes out, in case there are security fixes between now and Firefox 1.0.

The thing is, this release isn't even a proper release candidate as the maintainer of Burning Edge noted, thus even the title is flawed...

Thing is, this is a GOOD THING (TM). The Mozilla foundation is trying to weed out the bugs now, the security bug hunting contest, etc should ring a bell . They fixed more than 250 bugs, blocking the 1.0final. Its better to make things work now, than to break things later. Anyway the NYT ad is about FF 1.0 FINAL, which should not have any serious security problems (look at the Burning Edge for bugfixes. There are other reasons that why IE shouldnt be compared to FF aswell, including M$ policy about what is considered a "vulnerability" and a "security issue" and that IE is not actively developed now for four(!!!) years. Its quite bad that there are serious bugs in IE at all(!!), remember they had four years to weed those out. Just my $0.05 :)

This "release candidate" is really just an interim release between 1.0PR and 1.0 final. The Firefox team knows that there are still significant bugs that must be addressed before 1.0-final. See The Burning Edge for a small taste of what's been fixed since 1.0PR, and what is still left to do.

A word of caution: there will be significant bugfixes between now and the final release, but there may or may not be automatic update notifications. If you decide to install this on the computers of your friends and family, make sure to upgrade them again later ;)

adbar? ;)

It has the potential to be great, but we need to get past all this "add more features" and fix security programs.

Maybe Firefox is not yet as secure as it should be. But people are intensely at work tightening things up.
According to The Burning Edge no less then 10 security related bugs have been fixed in the last week.
The developers are obviously using the random HTML script, and the security bug hunting program seems to pay off.

I'm under the impression that Firefox developers are working very hard to provide a secure version 1.0 of Firefox.

burning edge said there are two minor security bugs fixed in oct. 19, 2004 firefox branch build, maybe...

You know what I mean

The Google "Search Bar" is the same as the nice, wide address bar, whereas the FF Search Bar is tiny.

You can make the address bar work as a Google search bar.

Hehe...

Look no further: Clicky! :-)

That's not wildcard, that's synonym searching. From the Google docs:

" ~" Searches

You may want to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms. Indicate a search for both by placing the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of the keyword.

For example, to search for food facts as well as nutrition and cooking information, use:

~food ~facts

Google search tip: wildcard word (*)

Google treats "*" as a wildcard meaning "any word". You can use it in phrases to: Ignore unimportant words

* "all but * anything but" (vs, and)
* "shanked * jengaship" (my, your, his jengaship)

Fill in phrases where you don't know a word

* "phyllis * tam" pomona (a middle name)
* "the * family is my boss" (hard-to-understand song lyrics from a song in Office Space)

See how people have filled in expressions and jokes

* "185 * walk into a bar"
* "friends don't let friends * *" (*'s at the end just keep the phrases from being cut off in snippets.)
* "* is to * as * is to *"

Crudely "search by proximity"

* "The shareware version * 10 levels"
* "The shareware version * * 10 levels"
* "The shareware version * * * 10 levels"

Is adbar open-source?
adbar is tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL.

Why K-Road if there is already Pornzilla?

Mozilla/Firefox already has fully customizable mouse gestures (using the nightly build).

My friend once got into a debate with me over Opera and Firefox, and it got down to him finally saying that despite how wonderful Firefox was and everything, he'll stick to Opera because he liked the ads! Well, I promptly directed him to a site where you can install ads for Firefox as well.

I found two of those holes. I did not find them by looking at the source code. So you're wrong :)

Of the 62 security holes I have found in Mozilla and Firefox, I only found four (217195,162409,249332,87980) by looking at the source. Even then, I didn't find all the holes by reading through large amounts of source. I found 87980 by investigating an error I saw in the JS console during normal use.

I found 162409 during John Keiser's presentation about a feature he maintained. His slide said something like "Session history uses keys to recognize form controls when you return to a page:
Tagname>InputName>InputType>FormName>IndexI nForm". I raised my hand and asked "Are those actual greater-than characters in the keys?". He said yes. I asked "Isn't that a security hole?" He said he didn't think it was, because then there would just be too many greater-thans. After the lecture, we worked together on an exploit, and then he fixed the bug.

I'd probably find more code-level holes if I spent more time looking at source code :)

The delay isn't an insulting, newbie-proofing feature to "make sure you read the dialog". It's a fix for a real security hole: a race condition involving human reaction time. Because it is a fix for a real security hole, there should not be a setting in about:config to reverse it. I'm disturbed that I haven't seen fixes for the same security hole in Opera and Internet Explorer.

If you know that your worst-case reaction time is less than two seconds, you can change the delay.

Option just not to use A9, though I've still to see if there's anything really innovative there. The "remove redirects" bookmarklet, BTW, can be used on Google's images search results so that you just go straight to the page and not to Google's framing of it.

Maybe I'm just stupid, but Tabbrowser Extensions is singlehandedly the best extension available, IMHO

Singlehandedly? Nah.

They're now called "pieces of information stored by web pages on your computer". I liked the delicacies better. Luckily there's an extension to fix it!

I listed it as a "major bug fix" in the changelog I created. That does not mean that it was treated as a "major bug" before it was fixed, only that I thought it was a notable fix (at least for the kinds of people who would read a changelog).

A much better list of new features in this preview release can be found here. Nice screenshots included.

A more detailed list of changes can be found here.

Overall, I'm pretty excited that this new release actually has new features, and is not simply a more polished and stable 0.9. The new find toolbar will greatly improve the usability of type-ahead find, and the 'LiveBookmarks' feature is promising.

Also of note, there is a new 'Information Toolbar' that appears in the top area notifying the user if a popup has been blocked. It's an idea pinched from IE6 SP2, but a good one. It's also used to notify the user if an extension installation failed.

Having the adress bar get a padlock icon and turn yellow when on an encrypted site is also a welcome change. This kind of feature would hugely enhance the 'Secure Browser' image firefox is trying to sell.

Am I switching yet? No, I'm going to wait up to a few days till the extensions I use (adblock, dictionary search, image zoom and a few others) are updated. Can't wait

Actually, it has already been fixed on the 'trunk' (bug 217527 - not linked 'cause bugzilla doesn't like it), but it has not yet made it to the release.

For more info, take a look at The Burning Edge's Bigger Picture

The only thing i complain is, there should be a CTL and Pango enabled binaries available for linux for people viewing indian language sites(UTF-8 encoded).

The only thing i complain is, there should be a CTL and Pango enabled binaries available for linux for people viewing indian language sites(UTF-8 encoded).

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0 .10.html http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-pictu re.html#newin1.0pr1

Maybe I'm naïve but seems like they can't get away with that. Every song has its license encoded in RDF. From the announcement: "This will be based on the great work that the Creative Commons project has done in machine-readable licensing in the open RDF/XML formats. (A step closer to the semantic web? Kewl =)

<riaa:masterPlan><![CDATA[

Put bogus license information on songs;
Track the song's spread by unsuspecting users [muuuhahaha];
Sue people who thought they were downloading free music -- after all, it says "FREE!" right on the cover;
Uh ...
Watch as judge yawns and tosses out case.

]]></riaa:masterPlan>

The project site also says that other non-Creative Commons (free) licenses might be used, and offer to help in designing an RDF version of the desired license. I guess RIAA could call their current system the "0wnj00 License" and use that for the markup. (Adbar, anyone?)

Firefox uses "I'm Feeling Lucky", which always goes straight to the first hit. IE with the Google Toolbar uses "Browse By Name", which only goes to the first hit when Google is sure the first hit is the correct one. Otherwise, it displays search results.

You can make Firefox use "Browse By Name" by changing a hidden pref. Or you can make it use a normal Google search if you want.

FYI you don't need to use an extension to do "linkification", you can use a bookmarklet. I somehow missed the memo on bookmarklets and only recently found out about them maybe 6 months ago. For those that don't know, bookmarklets are javascript snippets that you turn into bookmarks and then can be executed on any page you view. I use them primarily for linkification and for URL manipulation. I have one that removes all redirects from urls (if a url is present within the url it sends you directly there) which is really handy for sites like fark when the redirect system takes a dump. Other bookmarklets that I rely on are Links List, which makes a new doc with all the links on a site, top which changes the URL tot he top level of the domain, decrement and increment which decriment or increment the last number in the url (great for boobie links).

Various bookmarklets

They have some valid points too:
What other browser has a "throbber" displaying its logo while pages loads, an image-rendering library called "libpr0n", a code name like "Seamonkey" (see monkey), or a slogan like "free the lizard"?

Firefox is the ultimate porn browser !

Pornzilla!

If you guys really don't want the ugliness, head over to here. Then take the zap button, and drag it to your bookmarks. Clicking it when on an it.slashdot page will make it 100% more readable.

Also check out Jesse's other bookmarklets if you like that one. Or try this page if you're into that sort of thing.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated in any way with the aforementioned sites. I'm just a huge fan.

If you guys really don't want the ugliness, head over to here. Then take the zap button, and drag it to your bookmarks. Clicking it when on an it.slashdot page will make it 100% more readable.

Also check out Jesse's other bookmarklets if you like that one. Or try this page if you're into that sort of thing.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated in any way with the aforementioned sites. I'm just a huge fan.

If you guys really don't want the ugliness, head over to here. Then take the zap button, and drag it to your bookmarks. Clicking it when on an it.slashdot page will make it 100% more readable.

Also check out Jesse's other bookmarklets if you like that one. Or try this page if you're into that sort of thing.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated in any way with the aforementioned sites. I'm just a huge fan.

Can someone tell me how to uninstall this infernal Adbar? This piece of adware is so nasty that is doesn't even appear in Add/Remove Programs!

• adbar displays Google ads related to pages you view
• because the ads are relevant, they are occasionally useful (THAT'S A PROMISE!)

• Firefox-related things such as silly Firefox slogans
• ads for other Mozilla software
• and requests for donations to the Mozilla Foundation

You do know what the author does in his spare time, don't you?

The Burning Edge
Security holes in Mozilla the author's found
The author's checkins to Mozilla source code
Helpful bookmarklets for searching through Bugzilla, Mozilla's public bug database

You can also view the credits in Firefox as well. (I'd link to the specific line in code, but because it's in an HTML page LXR displays the HTML instead of outputting it by line number.) I'm pretty certain the author qualifies as a useful open source contributor.

You do know what the author does in his spare time, don't you?

The Burning Edge
Security holes in Mozilla the author's found
The author's checkins to Mozilla source code
Helpful bookmarklets for searching through Bugzilla, Mozilla's public bug database

You can also view the credits in Firefox as well. (I'd link to the specific line in code, but because it's in an HTML page LXR displays the HTML instead of outputting it by line number.) I'm pretty certain the author qualifies as a useful open source contributor.

You do know what the author does in his spare time, don't you?

The Burning Edge
Security holes in Mozilla the author's found
The author's checkins to Mozilla source code
Helpful bookmarklets for searching through Bugzilla, Mozilla's public bug database

You can also view the credits in Firefox as well. (I'd link to the specific line in code, but because it's in an HTML page LXR displays the HTML instead of outputting it by line number.) I'm pretty certain the author qualifies as a useful open source contributor.

http://www.squarefree.com/archives/000553.html#com ments