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Mozilla 0.9.4 Released
asa writes: "Lots of bug fixes (1,467 at last count) since 0.9.3 including the ability to disable the JavaScript window.open() method during page load and unload events. You can find more information on what's new at the release notes and mozillaZine."
first post but arabic lang support ???????
Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become painfully clear that most Americans simply don't get it. From the president to passersby on the streets, the message seems to be the same: this is an inexplicable assault on freedom and democracy, which must be answered with overwhelming force - just as soon as someone can construct a credible account of who was actually responsible.
Shock, rage and grief there has been aplenty. But any glimmer of recognition of why people might have been driven to carry out such atrocities, sacrificing their own lives in the process - or why the United States is hated with such bitterness, not only in Arab and Muslim countries, but across the developing world - seems almost entirely absent. Perhaps it is too much to hope that, as rescue workers struggle to pull firefighters from the rubble, any but a small minority might make the connection between what has been visited upon them and what their government has visited upon large parts of the world.
But make that connection they must, if such tragedies are not to be repeated, potentially with even more devastating consequences. US political leaders are doing their people no favours by reinforcing popular ignorance with self-referential rhetoric. And the echoing chorus of Tony Blair, whose determination to bind Britain ever closer to US foreign policy ratchets up the threat to our own cities, will only fuel anti-western sentiment. So will calls for the defence of "civilisation", with its overtones of Samuel Huntington's poisonous theories of post-cold war confrontation between the west and Islam, heightening perceptions of racism and hypocrisy.
As Mahatma Gandhi famously remarked when asked his opinion of western civilisation, it would be a good idea. Since George Bush's father inaugurated his new world order a decade ago, the US, supported by its British ally, bestrides the world like a colossus. Unconstrained by any superpower rival or system of global governance, the US giant has rewritten the global financial and trading system in its own interest; ripped up a string of treaties it finds inconvenient; sent troops to every corner of the globe; bombed Afghanistan, Sudan, Yugoslavia and Iraq without troubling the United Nations; maintained a string of murderous embargos against recalcitrant regimes; and recklessly thrown its weight behind Israel's 34-year illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as the Palestinian intifada rages.
If, as yesterday's Wall Street Journal insisted, the east coast carnage was the fruit of the Clinton administration's Munich-like appeasement of the Palestinians, the mind boggles as to what US Republicans imagine to be a Churchillian response.
It is this record of unabashed national egotism and arrogance that drives anti-Americanism among swaths of the world's population, for whom there is little democracy in the current distribution of global wealth and power. If it turns out that Tuesday's attacks were the work of Osama bin Laden's supporters, the sense that the Americans are once again reaping a dragons' teeth harvest they themselves sowed will be overwhelming.
It was the Americans, after all, who poured resources into the 1980s war against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul, at a time when girls could go to school and women to work. Bin Laden and his mojahedin were armed and trained by the CIA and MI6, as Afghanistan was turned into a wasteland and its communist leader Najibullah left hanging from a Kabul lamp post with his genitals stuffed in his mouth.
But by then Bin Laden had turned against his American sponsors, while US-sponsored Pakistani intelligence had spawned the grotesque Taliban now protecting him. To punish its wayward Afghan offspring, the US subsequently forced through a sanctions regime which has helped push 4m to the brink of starvation, according to the latest UN figures, while Afghan refugees fan out across the world.
All this must doubtless seem remote to Americans desperately searching the debris of what is expected to be the largest-ever massacre on US soil - as must the killings of yet more Palestinians in the West Bank yesterday, or even the 2m estimated to have died in Congo's wars since the overthrow of the US-backed Mobutu regime. "What could some political thing have to do with blowing up office buildings during working hours?" one bewildered New Yorker asked yesterday.
Already, the Bush administration is assembling an international coalition for an Israeli-style war against terrorism, as if such counter-productive acts of outrage had an existence separate from the social conditions out of which they arise. But for every "terror network" that is rooted out, another will emerge - until the injustices and inequalities that produce them are addressed.
It is still far too slow, uses far too much memory. crashes a lot.
Konqueror is a far better prospect as far as *.nix users go.
Excellent. I may now pr0n from work and not have to frantically close windows at the last minute.
Thank you, Mozilla team. My raging codpiece salutes you.
I piss on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I spit upon Mohammed.
You fucks will be sorry when we turn your country into a bigger mess than it is now.
You are obviously a complete fucking moron retard, quannump. Get a fucking clue.
You, my friend, are a Blue Falcon.
Mark this one down as flamebait.
My responce to the cad above is:
Fuck off and die.
That blunt enough?
(ignore sig.. on a higher build now)
Yo Bill, does your mother know what you post here? TSK TSK.
I'm thinking about it.
Ok, I'm scratching my head now, I'm still thinking.
Ok, something is starting to happen, I think I've got it.......!
DOH! Tell your mom not to use her teeth, dammit!!!! I can't stand it when she does that...
-n00m
Wow, you are a FUCKING moron!
no no no.... you know its close when you get version:
0.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1
My mother doesn't. But yours does. She laying right next to me while I'm typing this on my Sony laptop. I must say, your mother is a good lay!
WHOOOO!
Did I touch a sensitive point right up there? Are you having problem coping with the TRUTH? Because that's what it is. The Mozilla team a THE example of how you don't do open source. These guys are a disgrace for the open source community. Let them fuck and work for Microsoft or something. I bet you're one of them.
you're a fucking idiot, fix your fucking machine and it will work
It appears that this window.open disabling isn't just on/off though. This one sounds more like it turns it off at certian points when it's most annoying - on page loads/unloads, setInternal / timeout scripts, etc...
This way you'd be left with the times when popups are good (eg, in an a href/onclick pair - one case is popping up an enlarged window w/o toolbars, menus, and all that clutter).
Yeah, but Arabic lanauage seems to bring the whole browser down, or "crash" every time you use it.
I wish americans would wake up.
But it seems propaganda is winning all the time.
Sigh
funny to see a "brazilian slashdot"...
hahah
look at this guy's e-mail address.
for those who don't speak portuguese, doing a quick dirty translation of "slashdot" to portuguese you get "barraponto"... still a pretty dumb nerdy name, but at least some brazilians that doesn't know much english will understand this "funny joke".
and the "brazilian slashdot" is even dumber than the original one. at least here we get some serious stuff sometimes.
Ha.. but I used worse language and got modded down less than you did... and that's what counts :)
Also I have the guts to say what I feel and post as myself.