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If you check the http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/adbar/ page you can pay $19.95 and get rid of the ads?

whats the point of an AdBar with no ads ????

If you upgrade from Firefox 0.9.x to a branch nightly build (or wait for Firefox 1.0 Preview Release), middle-clicking and control-clicking the ads will do the right thing.

Check out bookmarklets, one of Jesse Ruderman's other creation.

"Bookmarklets are free tools to help with repetitive or otherwise impossible tasks in your web browser."

Isn't that the same guy who runs Pornzilla?

Except this would allow text files (on your hard drive) to be parsed as html files (and get the javascript associated with them). However, it's not earthshattering as it would be in IE because if it were IE, it would get extra "local zone" permissions. The only addition of permissions in moz is being able to link to other file: locations.

Not true. A local HTML file loaded in Mozilla can read all the .txt, .html, and .xml files on your drives. See my page, Security tips for users.

One way to keep updated about Mozilla releases and developments in many different areas is by subscribing to one of the developer mailing lists:
http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums. html

MozillaZine.org also does a good job of summarizing the development, but it's almost always 2-3 days late.

For the true cutting-edge lizard in you, there's always the feedhouse:
http://feedhouse.mozillazine.org/

And of course it has RSS feeds.

For those of you wanting to know when specific bugs have been fixed, I find the "edge" websites to be most simple to read (although not thorough):

The Rumbling Edge (for Thunderbird):
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/

The Burning Edge:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/

Saddly, there is no information about the releases almost a day after they have been out on http://mozillaeurope.org/en/ ... I wrote a note this morning but I imagine they are submerged.

Enjoy!

I just tested this attack in Opera. You're right, Opera does two things that make this kind of spoofing attack a little harder:

* "Window handling" defaults to "Prefer pages inside windows", so when a site tries to open a new window, it gets an MDI child window. This isn't nice for web applications or users who don't like tabbed browsing, but it is more secure against spoofing.

* At least in the default theme, if I do javascript:window.open("", "", "scrollbars=no"); void 0, the content area is indented by two pixels to create a 3D effect. This wastes a little screen space, makes it measurably harder to scroll using the scrollbar, and sites with black backgrounds like Slashdot ugly, but it makes it harder for a malicious site to spoof the menu bar.

However, Opera is still vulnerable to a more serious hole that was fixed almost two months ago in Mozilla and reported to Opera in March.

I would still like a rapid way to defeat designer colors so I can read gray on white text more easily.

Have you tried the Zap Colors bookmarklet? Turns text black and background white with a button press.

Amen brother

http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/why-firefox.ht ml

You mean like this?

Someone else had a similar idea.

Then we'd better start promoting Pornzilla to kids. Won't somebody think of the children?!

The text-to-speech form comes from AT&T (very very natural sounding, I might add) -- it's a post form, so I had to use the new-window trick in the bookmarklet.

Have you tried treating the POST form as a GET form? In some languages, the default is to accept both.

If the site only accepts POSTs, or if you might select a block of text too long for GET, you can create a hidden <iframe> instead of a new window and post from there.

I'm intrigued by your "a:not([href^="javascript:"]) { display: none }" comment -- what is this "edit styles" you mention?

It's edit stylesa bookmarklet I wrote.

You can restore your context menu, and do a ton of other stuff, with the power of bookmarklets.

There are a bunch more useful extensions and bookmarklets at the Pornzilla page.

I just love the idea of this, though it doesn't seem to be updated very often.

So there is no automatic installation, and the avarage user can't be tricked to click yes for an installation dialog.

Are you sure about that? That security hole won't be fixed until Firefox 1.0.

Magpie also includes tools for adjusting a site's URL by incrementing or decrementing the numbers in it ... This is a good extension for those who do a lot of research online.

Yup. I find this priceless while "researching" the webs many sequentially numbered jpegs.

If you're stuck browsing sequentially numbered jpegs at work using internet explorer (or you just don't use extensions), you can also use Jesse's bookmarklets.
Just drag them to your bookmark bar!

Here's another arbitrary code execution hole in IE. This one doesn't involve "zones" at all. And it hasn't been fixed yet.

That's not just annoying; it's also a security hole. All a malicious site has to do to own your system is convince you to type a word containing the letter 'y' and try to install software when you type the previous letter.

The slashdot rendering bug (bug 217527) can happen even without AdBlock. It's fixed on the trunk, so if you switch from 0.9 or 0.9.1 to a trunk nightly, you won't see the problem any more.

or just use the lizard for your porn browsing!

I recommend wget. After all: why write a plugin for an unsecure, platform dependent browser when there are existing GPL download tools?

In one person's analysis of the bugs fix for Firefox .9 it has been discovered that CSS-enabled opacity is one of the new features in this most resent release.

I for one have wanted to test this feature, but didn't know when it was going to hit the scene. It begs the question, Is Firfox the first browser to support CSS opacity?

Are you familiar with the Pornzilla project?

The Bigger Picture is a nice concise yet detailed list of things changed in this version.

Not only according to the mailing lists and the About dialog box of the installer, but even The Burning Edge Firefox build blog states such.

As an aside, The Burning Edge is the place to go for almost nightly updates of prerelease versions of Firefox. I've been using 0.9RCs up until today.

The NYTimes random login generator. On this page is a javascript bookmarklet that will fill the NYTimes "who are you" page with random data, then you just click submit and you are golden. Couple that with clearing your NYTimes cookies and you fill their DB with lots of junk data. I am personally responsible for probably 50+ completely random registrations at the NYTimes alone.

It's also quite easy to modify the bookmarklet to work with your favorite site. I modified it to work with the Washington Post and coupled with a cookie clearing javascriptlet I've been personally responsible for a ton of "info poison" for the Wash Post.

My washpost/nytimes cookie clearing javascriptlets are based upon the cookie clearing javascriptlet from this site: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

Every time I have some reason to visit either site, I generate a brand new, completely random registration.

Anyway, Firefox cannot beat IE off the top rank. It's simply becaues IE comes with Windows, and no smallwited user would know that there's alternatives, at all.

There are different classes of users though. I'm curious to see browser marketshare among online store users. I know anecdotally that the people that run alternative browsers tend to shop online more.

And as we all know, IE is a lousy browser for browsing porn. Porn drives the internet. I switched one "average joe" to mozilla just because of its porn browsing capabilities. Really. I'm not kidding. He thanked me because browsing porn was so much easier. They really should advocate firefox with the slogan "Firefox. Because you need porn."

...take a look at Jesse's more detailed and informative list

Bigger Picture

You want the second section (what's new since 0.8 on the 0.9 branch).

But konqueror does a very good job with these fonts (provided they are installed locally), and what's more the anti-aliasing in Konqueror imakes fonts much cleaner and easier to read than firefox. And I have compiled firefox from source with GTK and what not.

But at work where I have to use firefox, as there is no KDE, I'll be eagerly awaiting the 0.9 build for solaris, for they have fixed these 3 bugs which have annoyed me for quite some time.

205893 - Loading lots of images makes Firefox stop repainting.
229600 - Installing 2 extensions without restarting re-launches extension-installer for previous installed extensions.
For a comprehensive list see bigger-picture

Btw, for all Solaris users, Althought the download page of Firefox has a link to Solaris tarballs, they are non existant, i.e. 404.

This is very useful, especially since these days flash is mostly used for ads. When you go to a site when you actually want to view the flash animations, just click on the button.

Pornzilla
Then tell them they can look, but if they touch, they'll go blind.

Apparently that is a different bug they allegedly have fixed for the 0.9 release later this month. See http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-pictu re.html

and check out "205893 - Loading lots of images makes Firefox stop repainting."

It should be fixed in the latest branch builds. For updates on Firefox development see The Burning Edge

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

Suchetha
*fap fap fap*

Are we talking about the same site? I had a look at the style sheet for informit.com, and although they make some browser-specific hacks I'm not overly fond of, it seems at first glance like the background/font colors are being specified correctly.

Also, you may want to give these bookmarklets a try for your css needs.

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Makes a nice punchline: "The 1990s called. They want their fonts back." :-) Joking aside, I think it is indeed a regression. The Burning Edge Firefox nightly build blog says that gtk2 builds don't start (since May 11). It could be an unrelated firefox-specific problem, but I'm guessing there's a connection.

If they had the flexibility of a 4 to 6 hour delivery window, several different orders could be rounded up and put onto the same delivery van for economies of scale during the delivery process.

That's what Vons (aka Safeway) does, except that Vons has 2-4 hour delivery windows, not 4-6 hour windows. You pay $10 for delivery with a 2-hour window or $8 for a delivery with a 4-hour window.

If there was a way to encourage the customers to get their orders in at least 12 hours in advance

Vons has a simple way to do this: it requires customers to put in their orders about half a day in advance.

I ordered from vons.com throughout college.

Except for Opera's small-screen rendering sucks, at least for general use for me. When you turn it on, it strips out almost everything and shrinks imagines down to little thumbnails. Fine if you're on a phone.

I much prefer the way NetFront handles it, on the Zaurus, PalmOS and PocketPC. Unlike Opera, you don't loose any content- it just makes it fit on the page so you don't have to scroll left and right. Check it out.

Minimo has a CSS that does something similar. For instance, go to this site, bookmark the "PDAize" bookmarklet, and then try it out on Slashdot or some other page. In essence, this is what Minimo is- it's just Mozilla built for Linux/ARM with a new browser-wide style sheet.

Try some of these bookmarklets - the Zap ones can make most things readable

> Makes you wonder if the developers of Mozilla were really trying to make a better pr0n browser, eh?
Oh, well...
http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/

It's Pornzilla

The Best Porn Browser

Regarding your .sig ;
I'll go fly one now..

Damn you, Jesse!

divs = document.getElementById("div");
for(var i in divs){
if(divs[i].style.zindex > 0){
divs[i].style.visibility = "hidden";
}
}

And he even doesn't know about this awfull thing.

Try this link for some handy bookmarklets.

TweakUI for Windows XP has a nice GUI for creating a URL shortcut. One of my shortcuts is 64 chars long. According to Jesse Ruderman, IE limits Favorite URLs to 508 chars, so it seems like TweakUI follows this behavior.

With a single click, my browser changed that l337 5p33k to some "engleesh phrase".

Pwn3riz3d.