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Mouse Gestures in Mozilla

Jedbro writes: "I have really enjoyed the mouse gestures in Opera since its release, since then I have come across an awesome new project at Mozdev, called OptiMoz. OptiMoz (a.k.a. MozGest) is a XPI for Mozilla allowing Mouse Gestures to be available. It works great with Mozilla 0.9.4 and nightly builds. It currently has Gestures for: *New Tab Window (Moz Tabs!!) *Forward in History *Backward in History *Reload *New Document *Up a directory in the URL *View Source *View Cookies for Current Domain *View Meta Data for Domain and *Access Homepage."

279 comments

  1. Headline... by 7608 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just read this headline and all I could think of was a prostitute mouse hawking an AOL CD with Netscape on it. *shudders* I blame the poor quality of coffee in this facility.

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  2. Gimic by Stephen+Chadfield · · Score: 1

    A completely disposable gimic.

    1. Re:Gimic by Fembot · · Score: 1

      Yeah but its damm cool still tho

    2. Re:Gimic by Xenex · · Score: 3, Informative

      You've never used the gestures in Opera for more then a few seconds, have you? Once you get used to them, you'll swear by them.

      A quick set of down-up's on a bunch of links on a news site, and they're all loading in new windows in the background.

      Down-Right, and a window closes.

      Down, in new window in the forground.

      Up-Down, refresh.

      This is really only scraching the surface, but they are the ones I personally use.

      With these gestures, I can browse the web with literally only the mouse, and still use it as easily as if I had access to keyboard shortcuts.

      Sure, it's not for everyone, and I'm still split 50/50 between my usage of keyboard commands and gestures, but don't call something a gimmic just because YOU don't like it.

    3. Re:Gimic by Xenex · · Score: 2

      Actully, I left off the 'left' and 'right' movement gestures for back and forward. I use them a lot too ;)

    4. Re:Gimic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you talking about gesture recognition or mozilla?

    5. Re:Gimic by agdv · · Score: 1

      You wouldn't if you had a mouse with side buttons, trust me (I love my mouse, which is the one thing I admit Microsoft made really well). But the 'close' and 'open in new window' are seriosly good.

    6. Re:Gimic by BorgDrone · · Score: 2

      A quick set of down-up's on a bunch of links on a news site, and they're all loading in new windows in the background.

      a simple click on the thumb knob of my logitech MouseMan Optical also opens a link in a new window, with little mouse movement (point at link, middleclick) , okay, it doesn't open in the background, but that's beside the point.

    7. Re:Gimic by mgv · · Score: 1

      Lets be fair to microsoft.

      They make excellent keyboards as well.

      Michael

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    8. Re:Gimic by egreB · · Score: 1

      okay, it doesn't open in the background, but that's beside the point.

      Nope, that's not beside the point.. Opening documents in the background is great. When I read /., I browse downwards the main page, and when I come to something intersting, I open it in the background (with Opera mouse gestures). It doesn't interfere with my news-reading. Afterwards, when there's nothing more interesting on /. to read, I cycle through the opened windows (wich by this time is finished loading (on my ISDN-line *sigh*)). (-8 Mouse gestures rocks!

      -B

    9. Re:Gimic by Xenex · · Score: 2

      Actully, I have a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, and find myself using the gestures anyway...

    10. Re:Gimic by Xenex · · Score: 1

      Exactly.

      I was about to write something exactly like that... :)

    11. Re:Gimic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      all microsoft mice/keyboards are made by other companies and repackaged by M$. logitech makes their mice..dunno who makes their keyboards.

    12. Re:Gimic by BorgDrone · · Score: 2

      Nope, that's not beside the point..

      Loading in the background has got nothing to do with mouse gestures. you could change the behaviour of the middle mouse button to open in the background too. which is way easier/faster than a mouse gesture.

  3. Even better by phaze3000 · · Score: 4, Troll

    Use keyboard shortcuts. They're quicker, and as an added benefit don't give you RSI.

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    1. Re:Even better by great+om · · Score: 1

      i really like the mouse click shortcuts in Opera (I.e to go back you just hold the left and click the right mosue button) Its a convient place to put a command I use all the time webbrowsing (when checking out the www, my hand is most likely to be on the mouse when I want to navigate

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    2. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except that they don't work half the time in 0.9.4. But I'm sure that's just me and not a regression...

      More importantly, Mozilla.org has recently added a 'tabbed browser' feature and a Links toolbar (see mozillazine.org). New and apparently buggy features landing at this point leads one to believe that going 1.0 is not high on their priority list.

      But, considering the current tech economy, trying to push back the inevitable layoff announcements by a few months isn't the worst idea. If anyone has a more rational explaination, go for it.

    3. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey, ever hear about accessibility? It means that you make software that includes redundant input and output paths in case the standard input or standard output isn't accessible to the user? Keyboards are great! Have you ever tried using one with cerebral palsy? Don't rag on a feature just because you'll never use it. If it helps someone out there use the software easier, then maybe you should just step the fuck off!

    4. Re:Even better by Troodon · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      Only if you happen to be browsing resting both hands upon the keyboard. Personally I prefer to sit back and just use the mouse in one hand, switching back to the keyboard, positioning both hands is just an inconvience at this point. I can happily browse with little use of the keyboard with just four simple quick guestures in Opera: open new window from a link, close window, forward and back, whatever. As for RSI, personally Im more held up trying to remember not to wack the keys and thus damage my joints.

      Whatever, personal preference and frankly I find it more intuitive.

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    5. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I guess a keyboard is too easy and precise. These gesture-enjoyers view gestures like kung fu. The computer didn't get that last gesture? It means you need more practice. They think they're undergoing kung fu training while browsing. Too bad a keyboard has the efficiency of a gun, and beats kung fu anytime.

    6. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ever heard of getting the core stable before adding bells and whistles?

    7. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm using Mozilla right now. The core seems very stable to me.

    8. Re:Even better by phaze3000 · · Score: 2
      Personally I only use my right hand for moving the mouse, which conviniently leaves my left hand for keyboard shortcuts.

      As for leaning back and using the mouse, you obviously have a very different seating arrangement to me because I can't get into a position where my left hand can't reach the keyboard and still have my right hand on my mouse.

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    9. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      New and apparently buggy features landing at this point leads one to believe that going 1.0 is not high on their priority list.

      It seems that many people involved with the project do not even understand that there is a basic conflict between adding new features and getting to 1.0. See this MozillaZine discussion, in which the whole idea of feature freeze is pooh-poohed.

      But, considering the current tech economy, trying to push back the inevitable layoff announcements by a few months isn't the worst idea. If anyone has a more rational explaination, go for it.

      You know what they say about never explaining something by malice when stupidity would suffice?

      Lee Strauss

    10. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Perhaps you are using an old (really old) version of Mozilla? It has become very stable for me. I can't remember the last time it crashed.

    11. Re:Even better by litheum · · Score: 5, Funny

      you must not spend much time looking at porn..

    12. Re:Even better by Troodon · · Score: 1

      Certainly, whatever works for you and Im fortunate to have quite a deep desk. Perhaps its just that Im the hazy area of almost being able to touch type, but as you say the left hand rests easily vaguely over left of the keyboard for ctrl, alt, meta, tab and so forth and the right with the mouse. However, I think such an arrangement would be much more awkward if one was left handed, and thus controled the mouse with that hand. But then perhaps you could take the time to configure keybinds to somethings more convienent. Whatever, as others have pointed out a certain redundancy in the interface isnt always a bad thing.

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    13. Re:Even better by SmileyBen · · Score: 2

      Ooooh! So your first name is 'Lee', then?

      And I can hardly see how independent developers creating XPIs affects 1.0. Presumably you disapprove of people creating add-ons for IE, because it slows down their next (stable?) release?!?!?

    14. Re:Even better by marmoset · · Score: 1

      This isn't part of the core Mozilla project. This is an optional new feature being worked on independently. The fact that this feature can be installed on every platform Mozilla supports via the XPI mechanism (using no platform dependent code) shows the strength of the underlying XUL interface layer.

    15. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The particular features being discussed are from core Netscape/mozilla.org developers and are in the mainline.

      There's also shitloads of bugs/feature requests that say "Too Late! Can't be done!", so if a feature freeze is being 'pooh-poohed', that's a new thing.

    16. Re:Even better by SmileyBen · · Score: 2

      Erm, it is at least theoretically possible that there are some dangerous patches, and some less so, and that the dangerous ones are being avoided....

    17. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The particular features being discussed are from core Netscape/mozilla.org developers and are in the mainline.

      Ayup, the links bar and the tab browser are just that, and they're soaking massive cycles -- it could easily take a few hours just to read through the relevant bugzilla entries.

      I agree that someone else making a plugin is irrelevant with respect to feature freeze.

      There's also shitloads of bugs/feature requests that say "Too Late! Can't be done!", so if a feature freeze is being 'pooh-poohed', that's a new thing.

      Consistency is not high on the charts at Mozilla.

      Lee Strauss

    18. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Erm, it is at least theoretically possible that there are some dangerous patches, and some less so, and that the dangerous ones are being avoided....

      It is theoretically possible. The way we would know whether that was the case would be that the new things did not create new bugs and did not need to be pulled out of the tree. That would show they had been safe to check in. The tab browsing created lots of new bugs and was almost pulled. The links bar created serious performance problems and it had to be pulled. So we can see that the theoretical possibility is not a reality in this case.

      That ignores the whole issue of the resource drain involved in trying to find out whether the new features are stable enough to check in. This resource issue is very significant for a project that has still never been able to reduce its defect line. All the work that went into evaluating these new features could have gone into badly needed bug fixing and peformance tuning. But I guess that's not as much fun.

      "Lee"

    19. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Consistency is not high on the charts at Mozilla."

      Hey, I'm the AC that started this, and if they can suck AOL's tit indefinitely, I'm all for it.

      But, eventually someone over there will realize that they (Netcape, not Mozilla, not that Steve Case knows the difference) blew it almost irrevocably with the Netscape 6.0 release and the thing is in an endless loop years behind the original schedule, and the good times will end in massive bloodletting.

      One would hope at that point, the code base is in relatively solid shape (hard bugs like textareas and obscure CSS/DOM stuff are fixed) and not laden down with crap. Because it will be difficult for volunteers to take on maintaining something of this scale effectively.

    20. Re:Even better by SmileyBen · · Score: 2

      Erm. How exactly does saying that there are patches that cause some problems show that the patches refused were not ones that wouldn't cause far more serious problems? That's a mad argument.

      Of course Mozilla has reduced it's defect curve. I presume you're talking about it's increasing REPORTED defect curve, which is a totally different thing. This is like people who call rape awareness campaigns failures because more rapes are reported after them.

    21. Re:Even better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      With .94 and a nightly on XP it's been unstable for me. Other software (not IE, in this case Opera) has been stable.

  4. Re:What Are Mouse Gestures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Worst question ever!!! (in the voice of Comic Book Guy).

  5. That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    But how about a browser that does not need a 1ghz process and in excess of 256MB ram to run resonably well.


    I know mozdev projects are seperate from core browser development, but, it seems that mozilla's goal of being a lightweight browser have now been ignored.

    1. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      If you're not running on the latest hardware you cannot expect software with all the bells and whistles.

      Use Lynx. It's lightweight.

    2. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What are you talking about? Mozilla runs fine on my P166 with 48MB of RAM.

    3. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't tell lies!

    4. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mr AC, it takes about 40 seconds to load but after that its pretty responsive.

    5. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have a P-166 with 24MB and I have ran Mozilla on it as well. Although I did prefer Black Box with Netscape and nothing else running.

    6. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hmm. So you think that the resources mozilla needs to run comfortably-not WELL-are acceptable. Get a fucking clue moron. Mozilla is fat ass, bloated, bullshit.

    7. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I used it with aewm, but then started using skipstone (same as galeon, but only using gtk) which was much more responsive.

    8. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, you can always go back to Netscape 4.x shit.

    9. Re:That's great. by etymxris · · Score: 1
      ...in excess of 256MB...


      Come on, 256MB is cheap, cheap, cheap. You can get a single chip 256MB SDRAM module from retail outlets like Circuit City for only $80 (and that's in Manhattan!). If you go to Mom 'N Pop Computers, you'll probably get it for even less. There's no excuse not to upgrade your memory.
    10. Re:That's great. by tmarx · · Score: 1

      or you can use opera. there ARE alternatives. i like moz, but it's a fat duck!

    11. Re:That's great. by DrXym · · Score: 2

      I have a 450Mhz machine and it runs great. Certainly the UI needs speeding up somewhat but for page rendering and general responsiveness it is well up to scratch. I have even run it on a P133 running Linux over X and it's still pretty usable.

    12. Re:That's great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is a browser that does not need 256mb of ram and a 1ghz processor to run comfortably... and it takes about 1 second to load on a modest system. It also renders all pages the way they are supposed to look. And the download to install the basic setup is something like 10mb. It is called Internet Explorer.

  6. (Flamebait, -1!!!!) What about the keyboard? by Malc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who give's a flying f**k about mouse gestures? Mice are a good way to get tendinitus. I just want good keyboard support. I'm sorry to say, but IE actually does a good job in this department. (I guess X people don't get it, and as can be seen by using Windows and how easy it is to ignore the mouse with that MSFT offering).

    1. Re:(Flamebait, -1!!!!) What about the keyboard? by DrXym · · Score: 2
      Mozilla has great keyboard navigation and shortcuts so what are you talking about?


      What's more, if there is something that doesn't have a shortcut you can go into the chrome and add one easily enough.

  7. Hi there by perdida · · Score: 2

    This story is a bit unclear.. please don't just post user menus as exposition, thanks.

  8. Troll Review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Go register with somewhere that doesn't kill archived comments lower than 1, maybe your stories will last longer.

  9. Sensiva by metlin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sensiva is a nice tool for mouse gesturing, prety efficient too.

    Esp. useful for keyboard-repellant people =)

  10. Mouse gestures...nah, try tablet by mr100percent · · Score: 2

    I don't think a mouse is the best tool to use for gestures, they don't have the finest movement. Maybe a laptop trackpad...

    Now, if you could use a Wacom tablet, it'd be more like Palm Graffitti. Pen to the left for forward, back for backward, tap the link...I oughta try it out.

    1. Re:Mouse gestures...nah, try tablet by tjwhaynes · · Score: 2

      Now, if you could use a Wacom tablet, it'd be more like Palm Graffitti. Pen to the left for forward, back for backward, tap the link...I oughta try it out.

      I just did. It's a little fiddly - I might have to play with the pressure settings to make it a little easier. But still, it works (although my current nightly is a little flakey).

      Cheers,
      Toby Haynes

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  11. XPI? by tcc · · Score: 2

    >OptiMoz (a.k.a. MozGest) is a XPI for Mozilla allowing Mouse Gestures to be available

    Now I can see IE6.5 having this integrated and calling it XP-Innovation (or Immitation, you choose).

    Still, it's nice, but normally when you surf the web you input data as well, so aren't keyboard shortcuts a more "productive" solution?

    One extra thing I use often on the mouse are the 2 side buttons linked to "back" and "foward", these 2 are great, if your mouse isn't a dexxa and you always accidently press on them while moving the mouse :).

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    1. Re:XPI? by knarf · · Score: 3, Informative

      XPI ('Zippy') is mozilla lingo for 'Cross Platform Installer' or something like that. XPI files are to mozilla what deb files are to Debian, or RPM's to RedHat. They are actually jar files (you know, Java Archives, which in turn are really zip-files with a twist) with an install script and a description of the contents of the archive in RDF format. More on this can be found on the mozilla website

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  12. Troll Review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Are you sure you belong at Slashdot? I think you want Kuro5hin.

    No, really.

  13. This is really cool! by Hazzl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I read this post, I immediately ran to mozdev and installed it. This is really cool! Now you can browse in complete full-screen without having to rely on context menus. Using the keyboard shortcuts (as has been suggested) is not as easy because I usually surf using only the mouse and switching my attention back and forth between keyboard and screen is quite cumbersome. In short: this completely ROCKS!!!

    1. Re:This is really cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, the poor little bitch can't use the keyboard without looking at it.

    2. Re:This is really cool! by tim_maroney · · Score: 2

      Now you can browse in complete full-screen without having to rely on context menus.

      I'm curious. What's wrong with context menus? Unlike mouse gestures, their commands are highly discoverable, once you know the basic trick of right-clicking or control-clicking. Mouse gestures seem to be a reversion to the old "memorize a manual before using the program" paradigm.

      Tim

    3. Re:This is really cool! by abischof · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'm curious. What's wrong with context menus?

      The problem with context menus, especially since they activate on mousedown-then-mouseup (instead of just mousedown) is that they offer no muscle memory. With Netscape 4.x, for instance, the context menu activated on mousedown. That allowed such movements as mousedown - drag right - select Back - release button, all in one stroke. Now, with the contextmenu activating on mouseup (after mousedown), muscle memory no longer comes into play.

      But, that's where mouse gestures come in. Sure, it may take a few minutes to learn. But, after a while, it's all second nature and you don't even need to think about it -- just like how copy-n-pasting is probably effortless to you since "your fingers" know all the right keys to press without you having to consciously think about it.

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      Alex Bischoff
      HTML/CSS coder for hire

    4. Re:This is really cool! by tim_maroney · · Score: 2

      The problem with context menus, especially since they activate on mousedown-then-mouseup (instead of just mousedown [mozilla.org]) is that they offer no muscle memory.

      Well, Mr. #255, I don't know what you mean. I just brought up a contextual menu in IE5.0. It came up on mouse-down rather than waiting for a mouse-up. Now I'll try it on a few different links. Hmm, that's funny, the menus and their items are all in exactly the same position relative to each click. I see no barriers to positional memory. If this isn't what you're seeing, you may want to adjust your set.

      Sure, it may take a few minutes to learn.

      As for taking a few minutes to learn, that's exactly my point. The whole point of the GUI revolution is that software tells you what it can do for you. You don't have to sit around memorizing a manual. It's not a trivial issue -- it's central. Once we open the door to rote-memorization interfaces, sure, any one feature may only take a few minutes to learn, but before long we're back to having to spend hours reading a manual before being able to use a new piece of software at all.

      Tim

    5. Re:This is really cool! by talonyx · · Score: 1

      Whatchu talkin' about, willis?

      In IE here, it takes a mouseup for them to appear. IE5.5SP2 on Win2k...

    6. Re:This is really cool! by damiam · · Score: 1
      Well, Mr. #255, I don't know what you mean. I just brought up a contextual menu in IE5.0.

      Well, Mr. #239442, if you were paying any attention you'd know that the discussion is about Mozilla. What IE does is irrelevent when we're complaining about what Mozilla doesn't do.

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    7. Re:This is really cool! by tim_maroney · · Score: 2

      You sure? I'm on MacOS, but mouse-down is the behavior I'm used to on my Windows box at work. Darn it, now you've got me wondering. Could all my memories have been implanted by aliens? I hate that.

      Just to clarify for the peanut gallery (not you): I was discussing the merits of ordinary context menus versus mouse gestures. If we're talking about this plug-in as a way of working around a problem specifically with Mozilla context menus, that's a whole different discussion.

      Tim

    8. Re:This is really cool! by bfields · · Score: 1
      switching my attention back and forth between keyboard and screen is quite cumbersome

      Learn to touch-type, and you will be enlightened.

      --Bruce Fields

    9. Re:This is really cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      HTML Guru whose site doesn't work without Javascript. You are not hired. Go directly to jail.

    10. Re:This is really cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Its all about Prono!!! One hand navigation is a must!

    11. Re:This is really cool! by Bio · · Score: 1

      I have experience with "gestures" or "mouse strokes" with a schematic entry tool called Concept that was part of Cadence (a chip and PCB design framework) about 8 years ago.

      Various gestures were used, e.g. for "zoom in" (you draw a "Z" over the region you want to zoom into), "move" (you grab a symbol and draw a "M" with the mouse), "delete" (you draw a "^" over the symbol).

      My experience was: though it sounds crazy, you get used to it very quickly. It's a very quick and natural flow of work.

  14. Gestures... by Jace+of+Fuse! · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember them working really well in Black and White...

    What's the gesture to set fire to a web-page?

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  15. but you have to drag.... by ywwg · · Score: 2

    There used to be software called Pointix (for windows) that allowed you to navigate easily by making more unique gestures. With mozilla you have to click and drag, but with pointix you could make a counter-clockwise circle-motion with the mouse, and it would interpret that as "back." As long as you don't make idle circular motions with the mouse it worked wonderfully. I'd like to see those gestures incoporated into this project.

    (the full list of gestures: clockwise circle, counterclockwise circle, quick side-to-side motion, quick forward-back motion)

  16. Re:What Are Mouse Gestures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They are a slower method of performing simple tasks, compared to the more common methods. They are utterly useless unless all other methods of input are denied, which is unlikely considering that gestures use the mouse. Despite their utterly pointless nature, they have a certain 'cool factor'.

    Gesturing:
    1. Hold mouse button.
    2. Perform gesture (draw shape with mouse).
    3. Release button.

    Normal:
    1. Press key/button. Sometimes, multiple clicks/keypresses will be required due to the design to the program.

    Generally, the old methods remain the best. I've even been charitable and assumed that the gesture was correctly performed first time.

  17. And yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...Still no freaking PGP/GPG support in mail+news!

  18. Didn't work for me by hexix · · Score: 1

    I tried to install it, the installation seemed to work fine on both mozilla 0.9.4 and a nightly build that I downloaded yesterday. Yet on both of the mozilla versions when I restarted mozilla (as I was told to do when the installation finished) I came back to see nothing different. I think there was suppose to be a new toolbar. I didn't see one and there was no option to show/hide one in the preferences or the view menu.

    Anyone else have this problem and figure out how to get it working? I really wanted to give this a try.

    1. Re:Didn't work for me by brunes69 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Also, from the experience I've had, the user you're running mozilla under has to be able to write to the mozilla directory to install plugins. So I su root, install the plugin, then re-start in user mode. The plugin then appears.

    2. Re:Didn't work for me by _Marvin_ · · Score: 1

      I have the same problem. I tried with my old
      0.9.4 install, a fresh 0.9.4 install, a nightly
      build, removed my ~/.mozilla directory....
      whatever I do, after the install mozilla looks
      exactly the same as before.
      (I'm on Slack8.0, btw)

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    3. Re:Didn't work for me by _Marvin_ · · Score: 1

      Nope, that's not the problem. I didn't install mozilla as root, I installed it as a regular user
      in my home directory. Still doesn't work.
      BTW, I just looked at the install.log file in
      the mozilla directory. Everything seems to work
      fine until:

      [40/40] Register Content: resource:/chrome/mozgest/content/

      Install **FAILED** with error -239

      OK, off to the bugs page...

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      "We won't use guns, we won't use bombs, we'll use the one thing we've got more of and that's our minds" - Pulp
    4. Re:Didn't work for me by gt5432a · · Score: 1

      same thing for me
      It said install done , restart
      but nothing and when I looked in the install log
      it said it failed with error -239

    5. Re:Didn't work for me by mddevice · · Score: 2, Informative

      I had the same problem until I downloaded a previous version of the install.js from cvs. Now it works just fine.

    6. Re:Didn't work for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also, from the experience I've had, the user you're running mozilla under has to be able to write to the mozilla directory to install plugins. So I su root, install the plugin, then re-start in user mode. The plugin then appears.

      I had the exact same problem with installing the Java VM plugin. Web pages would point me at the plugin, I'd install it, but it would mysteriously fail.

      Mozilla needs a fix for it! At least a better explanantion to the user about why the plugin installation failed.

    7. Re:Didn't work for me by SCHecklerX · · Score: 2

      Mozilla never runs for me as root, except on the initial install. Weird.

      It scrolls through its debugging crap, then just hangs. As my normal user, it runs fine. This is 0.9.4, at the moment. This is with full rights to the X display. I also tried running even X as root, with the same result. Why won't mozilla run as root?

      Anybody know wazzupwiddat???

    8. Re:Didn't work for me by cobar · · Score: 2

      I run a lot of nightlies, so I just install mozilla as my login user after making /usr/local/mozilla owned by me. Works great and saves having to su every time I install a plugin or new release.

  19. Am I doing something wrong? by Maul · · Score: 2

    Installed it under Mozilla 0.9.4. The toolbar shows up, but the gestures don't seem to be working no matter what I do. Hmn. Am I doing the gestures wrong? Anyone else having the problem?

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    1. Re:Am I doing something wrong? by mattdm · · Score: 3, Informative

      This isn't part of the main mozilla project. See the optimoz install page.

    2. Re:Am I doing something wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      First make sure you've turned it on. Tthe power button looking thing should be depressed.

      Select a mouse button by clicking on it in the picture of the mouse

      Try some gestures

      If that doesn't help, check the debug checkbox and see what it tells you when you try to gesture

    3. Re:Am I doing something wrong? by litheum · · Score: 1

      i can't even get the damn toolbar to show up

    4. Re:Am I doing something wrong? by knarf · · Score: 2

      Did you turn the gestures on? You have to press the 'on' button on the left side of the toolbar...

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    5. Re:Am I doing something wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The installation process seems to silently fail on some versions. It did for me on nightly build 2001-10-05-03. Someone has submitted a bug about it: bug 532.

    6. Re:Am I doing something wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was having problems but then i went back to the page and they added a fix for the install today.

  20. mozilla is fucking shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    i hope it gets killed right after linux when the SSSCA is passed.

  21. Galeon? by brunes69 · · Score: 2

    Will plugins like this work with Galeon / K-Mealon?

    1. Re:Galeon? by BZ · · Score: 2

      No. Thanks to the wonders of a platform-dependent non-XUL UI.

    2. Re:Galeon? by brunes69 · · Score: 2

      And the wonders of a non resouce hogging, slow as hell re-inventung the wheel UI. (BTW, GTK is platform independant, in case you didn't know)

    3. Re:Galeon? by DrXym · · Score: 2
      If this mouse gesture uses chrome overlays to listen for mouse move events then it won't run in Galeon.


      Having said that, there is nothing to stop Galeon from installing XPI packages - they just won't work do much if they exploit features it does not support.

    4. Re:Galeon? by SEE · · Score: 2

      BTW, GTK is platform independant, in case you didn't know

      Really? So there are now versions of GTK for the MacOS GUI, OS/2 WPS, NanoGUI, and Photon?

      Or did "platform independent" recently get redefined to "Basically for one GUI platform, with ports to two others"? Because then MFCs are platform-independent, too.

  22. Gesture Recognition by Chrimble · · Score: 1

    There have been lots of attempts at gesture recognition in the past, but they never seem to have taken off in a big way. This is a shame, since when they work they tend to work really well.

    I love the way gestures are implemented in Opera - the actions become completely natural and I tend to find myself trying to use them in other browsers - to little effect. Now at least I'll be able to use them in Mozilla... Only Konquerer and IE left to go, and they'll be in *all* the browsers I regularly use 8)

    Can anyone remember what the company was called that did the "glicks" software? I used to use it years ago but stopped after the later versions got worse rather than better... That software recognised 4 additional gestures - clockwise, anti-clockwise, jiggle left-right and jiggle up-down. I remember mapping 3 of them to cut, copy and paste... those were the days. 8)

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    1. Re:Gesture Recognition by Troodon · · Score: 2, Interesting

      ...Only Konquerer and IE left to go...

      Courtesy of Mike Pilone and DCOP, KDE has had this for a couple of months: Gesture Recognition for KDE. Not just Konquerer you can control either. The project is here.

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  23. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nah. Nothing comes close to being as gay as CmdrTaco.

  24. Re:You asked for it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You rule, sir. Thank you.

  25. Slashdot to thank by abischof · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In a way, Slashdot is to thank for this. Back when Mozilla 0.9.2 was released, there was a +5 comment on the possibility of Opera-like gestures. That led people to read about gestures in bug 76537 and, from there, the community stepped up to the plate (specifically, Andy Edmonds). Nice.

    Now, if only we could work together and get some working spellchecking for Mozilla :).

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    1. Re:Slashdot to thank by FFFish · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In a way, *Opera* is to thank for this. If they hadn't been truly innovative, in that they thought to take the uncommon idea of mouse gesturing and applying it to browsing, this would never have made the radar.

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    2. Re:Slashdot to thank by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In a way, *Black and White* is to thank for this. They were the real innovators behind gestures.

    3. Re:Slashdot to thank by Troodon · · Score: 1

      I remember chatting to someone about this when Opera introduced this. Rather more technically inclined he mentioned that "Cueless piemenuing systems"? are nothing new, that some other (cad?) app has had such for some time. Kudos to Opera though for applying such to browsers.

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    4. Re:Slashdot to thank by NutscrapeSucks · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Wouldn't that be "Slashdot to blame"? :)

      Anyway, since mozilla.org is in a feature adding move, and we've got the opportunity to pimp a little, go and vote for Alt mail support or Here -- this will allow Mozilla to play nice with the mailer/newsreader of your choice instead of assuming you want Messenger.

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    5. Re:Slashdot to thank by NutscrapeSucks · · Score: 1

      Ooops -- that's "feature adding MOOD", referring to the recent introduction of Tabbed browsing and the Links bar. Need more coffee...

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    6. Re:Slashdot to thank by FFFish · · Score: 1

      Oh, fersure. Opera certainly didn't pioneer the technology. But they did recognize a great idea and implemented it well!

      What I find frustrating these days is that I can't close all my application documents by executing a mouse-squiggle. Damn!

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    7. Re:Slashdot to thank by Troodon · · Score: 1

      Ah well, if you recognise the power of the Dark Side? and convert to KDE you can use Kgesture to control/open/close/etc apps via DCOP.

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    8. Re:Slashdot to thank by thejake316 · · Score: 1

      You know, if everything that got a +5 on Slashdot came true (or even was true) this would be an even more fucked-up world than it already is.

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  26. Re:Didn't work for me [Debian Bug] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There's a known issue with Debian Linuz installs. Please visit the bugs page and comment if you experience this on another flavor (http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/).

  27. Gestures take to long. by ivan256 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They were my least favorite part of that Black & White game.. If they work anything like that in Mozilla then why bother? With your other hand on the keyboard you can just use keyboard shortcuts which take one press instead of opposing movements. The only thing I ever use the mouse for is clicking on a link anyway. Everything else involoving the mouse is so unnatural to do with your hands. If it weren't for graphical web browsers and quake, I would never use my mouse at all. It may just be that I have really big hands, but I just find resting my hand on a mouse (they're all too small) makes my hand curl unnaturally. I don't even want to get in to the scroll wheel...

    1. Re:Gestures take to long. by NonSequor · · Score: 2

      I thought the gestures in Black and White worked very well. I could do the gestures much faster than I could find a key on the keyboard. It also kept the game from having rows of icons that take up half the screen. The gestures were difficult enough that it took a little practice to get the hang of them but a gestures interface in a browser has to use much simpler gestures. As such, the fact that you suck at Black and White does not guarantee that you would not be able to use a web browser with a gesture interface.

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  28. how about additional mouse buttons ? by mbyte · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I got an M$ Intellimouse with 5 buttons + wheel
    (if u count the wheel as buttonts, then it has 7)

    In IE the 4th button is the Page back feature .. this is WAY more convinient than every possible guesture, just press ur thumb , and page back.

    Any way to configure Mozilla to have the same behavior ? The best i found is using key for page pack, but as written below u need 2 hands for that ... Any ideas ? Do i need to fill out a mozilla bug ? :)

    1. Re:how about additional mouse buttons ? by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 2

      The extra mouse buttons work fine in Mozilla out-of-the-box, and have for quite some time. Maybe you need a newer release of Mozilla, or newer Intellimouse drivers.

    2. Re:how about additional mouse buttons ? by abischof · · Score: 3, Informative
      In IE the 4th button is the Page back feature .. this is WAY more convinient than every possible guesture, just press ur thumb , and page back.

      That specific functionality is bug 30431. Feel free to vote for it if that issue is important to you. In the meantime, there are still ways in which you can make use of those extra buttons:
      1. First, configure at least one of the side-buttons to Ctrl
      2. Then, goto Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Mouse Wheel.
      3. Select "Ctrl" from the pull-down and set the radio button to "Move back and forward in the browsing history".
      Now, to move back or forward, just hold down the side-button that you configured to Ctrl and move the mouse wheel. Ok, so it's not as nice as just a click, but at least it's something until bug 30431 is fixed.
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    3. Re:how about additional mouse buttons ? by mbyte · · Score: 2

      I just did try with mozilla 0.9.4, no luck. Pressing any of the mouse buttons on blank screen space only the right button open the context menu, the other 4 do nothing.

      (using win2k sp2, and no additional intellimouse drivers, and it works perfectly in IE 5.5)

    4. Re:how about additional mouse buttons ? by rabidcow · · Score: 1

      Can't you configure the extra button to send a key combination in Control Panel? (the software for my button/scroll mouse allows that)

      Or does microsoft want every program to be rewritten to take advantage of the extra buttons?

      It seems much preferrable to me that the OS decide which buttons do what rather than making the application specifically require support for each and every new device that comes along...

    5. Re:how about additional mouse buttons ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In win2k with sp2, with what appears to be some OEM software called Intellipoint, it works just fine in Mozilla for me. And yes, those side buttons are awesome for back/forward.

    6. Re: how about additional mouse buttons ? by slasho81 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      How about adding a mouse ball to the keyboard? That way you can have both your hands on the keyboard AND on your mouse.

    7. Re: how about additional mouse buttons ? by archen · · Score: 1

      you mean like this keyboard?

    8. Re:how about additional mouse buttons ? by greenfly · · Score: 2

      You simply have to map your .imwheelrc to do it.

      Here's the relevant section of mine (and, you *are* using xmodmap to switch buttons 4 and 5 to the wheel aren't you?)
      Typically the side buttons are mapped to left and right, just add this to the mozilla section of your .imwheelrc:
      None, Left, Alt_R|Left
      None, Right, Alt_R|Right

    9. Re:how about additional mouse buttons ? by jtra · · Score: 1

      Yust wonder when the people will realize that adding buttons to the mouse is meaningless when we have 100 or more keys on keyboard. Or will mouse morph to mouse-keyboard in near future?

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  29. Just one problem with gesture controls by ZaneMcAuley · · Score: 0

    What happens if the MS optical mouse decides to twitch randomly :D

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  30. gestures in mozilla? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Like giving it the middle finger when it crashes for the 1249821498th time?

    1. Re:gestures in mozilla? by DrXym · · Score: 2, Flamebait

      Funny. I use Mozilla all day and every day and it rarely crashes. Better yet is NS 6.1 which has to be one of the most stable pieces of software I've ever used.

  31. Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah man! Microsoft sucks! They steal stuff from us cool guys!

    Oh wait, Mozilla stole mouse gestures from Opera. Don't you feel stupid, dumb fuck.

  32. "from the still-pumped-from-using-the-mouse dept." by abischof · · Score: 2

    For those not aware, "still-pumped-from-using-the-mouse" is an allusion to Scott Adams' Dilbert book "Still Pumped From Using The Mouse". It's a compilation of the strips from 12/14/92 - 9/27/93, and you can actually get it used for about $0.75 + s/h.

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  33. YES, please: more ways to browse with the keyboard by Tom7 · · Score: 3, Interesting


    This is a fun feature, and I'm sure people will get a kick out of it. But gestures don't seem like a good "expert" way to browse -- the keyboard offers faster, more accurate input. And you are absolutely right about the RSI: since I started using my keyboard for almost everything (except web browsing, ah..) my wrist problems have gotten much better.

    What I'd really like to see is more ways to browse with the keyboard. I don't have any ideas in particular (being able to use the arrows to move around in a spatial way instead of tabbing through links in order would be a plus), but I would definitely learn and use any system that's better than what I've got now.

  34. Finally... by Mir322 · · Score: 1

    Something useful for all those hacked Nintendo Power Glove / mouse conversions..

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  35. The chain of commands by Kragg · · Score: 1
    'Leash Cow'
    'Switch to Torture leash'
    'Tie Cow to web site'
    'Back'
    'View Document Source'
    'Cast fireball on source'


    Hah! your website has come to believe in my browser! I now have control over your animated monkey gif.

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  36. keep your pc/network rodeNT free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    now there's *#* good browsers to choose from, or, you could build your ?own?. everything's gnu now. fud is dead.

  37. s/Brenda/CmdrTaco/g; s/Karen/Hemos/g; by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    hehe

  38. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What about jon katz?

  39. Oh my god... by Moderator · · Score: 0

    Just get the damn browser stable and worry about added features later.

    Seriously, who needs tabbed browsing and mouse gestures if the browser's too unstable to use on a regular basis? Time spent on coding unnecessary toys is time wasted from getting a final stable product shipped.

    I have a gesture for Mozilla...

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    1. Re:Oh my god... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Come on, I use Mozilla as my primary browser, and I also use IE sometimes as well. If I were to sit down and compare the two IE would come off as an unstable piece of crap. It crashes more often for me. (i.e. sometimes versus none) If the browser is too unstable for you, then you are doing something wrong.

    2. Re:Oh my god... by Defiler · · Score: 1

      I haven't seen an IE crash in almost six months, and I use it heavily every day. What are you doing wrong?
      Don't get me wrong.. I think Mozilla is great, but our Intranet apps at work require IE, so I'm stuck with it.

  40. Re:Troll Review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    slashdot archives all comments, even low rated ones.

  41. Or worse: trigger them accidentally by TheMidget · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I've even been charitable and assumed that the gesture was correctly performed first time.

    .. or that you don't accidentally perform the gesture while intending to perform a completely different action. Here's a small excerpt from an old comment posted to Slashdot, which apparently triggered this development:

    Or, to go back a page, hold down the right mouse button and click the left mouse button ("forward" is just the reverse: hold down the left mouse button and click the right mouse button).

    Now, think about the implication of this for a moment. Picture a user who has a mouse with only two buttons. And who has Emulate3Buttons switched on. For those who don't know, this allows the user to simulate a press on the (non-existant) middle button by pressing left and right simultaneously. However, we humans are not very precise as far as timing goes, and we're bound to press one of those two buttons slightly ahead of the other. End result: the browser appears to have "a mind of its own" because it keeps jumping back and forth as soon as you try to select a block of text...

    Browser developers: if you feel the strong urge to implement such a feature, please make it optional, and off by default. Such a feature could be especially annoying when accidentally triggered on a page where the user has spent half an hour filling out a lengthy survey form. One bad click, and you have to restart from scratch.

    1. Re:Or worse: trigger them accidentally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Opera has a dialog box, "you have just performed your first gesture - Left: Back - do you want to turn gestures on?" -- I'd be happy enough with that

  42. Re:Mozilla should: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If I cut it off, I'd cut it into a bunch of pieces, like this:

    8 = = = = = = D

  43. GTK platform independent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    GTK is platform independant, in case you didn't know

    The hell it is. Where's the Win32 GTK? And no, the horrible Win32 Gimp kludge won't do.

    1. Re:GTK platform independent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's a GTK for MacOS?

    2. Re:GTK platform independent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As long as the most popular platform is not available, it's not cross platform.

    3. Re:GTK platform independent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And who the fuck are you to make that decision?

  44. Re:gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Apparently you've never seen them having sex.

  45. Re:Squirting penises! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you don't stop posting that crap, I'm going to stick your penis in a blender.

  46. Re:gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wil is Riker? Damn, I must have forgotten to change it to "Hemos". :(

  47. Gestures really rock! by �laC|n · · Score: 1

    I installed the gesture software a couple a days ago, and boy does it rock! i'll never live without it again ;-)

    And the development of Mozilla goes ever on, today they branched 0.9.5! And for all off you who doesnt know, Mozilla now features a tabbed interface! ATM there are some bugs related to it, but sure they'll be fixed for next milestone.

    Maaaan is Mozilla becoming good =)

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  48. Re:You asked for it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    One night, I woke up to feel her finder in me.

    Wow! Even without installing the rest of MacOS, that must have been quite a stretch!

    "C'mon, baby, I got 2.3 megabytes just for you...."

  49. Advanced features...? by hhe_hee · · Score: 1

    Thank god for Mouse Gestures in Mozilla too, when will the advanced features be available?

    For example: To open a new mozilla window, login at slashdot as yourself and submit a really cool story.
    To do this try the following easy steps:

    Hold down left mouse button, move right-left-right, then hold down right button and move right-left-up-down-left-up-left-right. Release left button and move left-down-right-up, double-click left button, hold it down, release and double-click right button, move up-down-up-down, doucleclick both buttons (alternatively double-click middle button if you have 3 of them). Now finally move the mouse in a circle, anti-clockwise, four complete circles should be drawn. When done with the circles hold down both buttons and move up-down-right-down-up-left-right-left, double click both buttons. DONE!!!

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    1. Re:Advanced features...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      You are being sarcastic, aren't you?

  50. Re:You asked for it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This story caused me to make several involuntary mouse gestures without the aid of a plug-in.

  51. vim mode? by The+Pim · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Use keyboard shortcuts. They're quicker.

    It's not just that keyboard controls are good on general principles; it's also the ridiculous extent to which browsers neglect them. Do you realize that when the focus is in the page (> 90% of the time), almost every single keypress does absolutely nothing? What a waste!

    I would give my left foot for a vim-like mode in mozilla. Flexible and powerful navigation, visual selection, one-key incremental regex searches, marks and jumps, macros. Some modifications would be necessary for a browser environment, but I think most of the endearing non-editing properties of vim could be carried over.

    So, anyone want to write this?

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    1. Re:vim mode? by astonish · · Score: 1

      I die for this in general. Everytime I open some pro IDE for coding I despirately wish it had a VIM mode. (I hear emacs + JDE in VIper mode is good so im going to give it a try).

      It's a bitch to learn, but once you do you never go back.

    2. Re:vim mode? by jesser · · Score: 2

      Do you realize that when the focus is in the page (> 90% of the time), almost every single keypress does absolutely nothing?

      That's a good thing. It means that you don't have to check what has focus before pressing Ctrl+W (close window) or Alt+Left (back) or Ctrl+L (focus location bar). If Mozilla used single-letter keyboard shortcuts, users would find themselves stuck whenever they went to a search engine's front page.

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    3. Re:vim mode? by Ecyrd · · Score: 4, Funny

      I would give my left foot for a vim-like mode in mozilla.

      Okay. You send me your left foot and I'll make Mozilla support a vim-like mode. Sounds like a fair deal, though I am more used to accepting souls in return.

      But a foot is a good start.

    4. Re:vim mode? by The+Pim · · Score: 2
      If Mozilla used single-letter keyboard shortcuts, users would find themselves stuck whenever they went to a search engine's front page.

      I wouldn't force anyone to use single-letter shortcuts. vim controls are for experts, obviously.

      Anyway, mozilla doesn't work the way you want now. When I go to a search engine, neither the PageDown nor the Ctrl-W keys "work". (This is 0.9.4 on linux. In the unix tradition, Ctrl-W means erase the last word, and mozilla respects this.) But it's hard to tell bugs from features in mozilla. . . .

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    5. Re:vim mode? by jesser · · Score: 2

      It would be strange if pagedown worked in a textbox, because arrow keys don't work (in fact, they scroll back to the textbox!), and because in a textarea, pagedown has to scroll just the form control.

      I don't understand why Mozilla uses emacs keybindings at all, but since it does, I think it should use a different keyboard modifier for commands and for text editing. The problem is that then you're left with no key for opening menus or jumping to web page elements with the accesskey attribute.

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    6. Re:vim mode? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Two words: no chording. While it doesn't take much effort to hit, say, [ctrl][s] for save and then type your filename, it anchors your pinky on the ctrl key. and that's okay, but it's easier to hit [esc] (which is near-impossible to miss on most keyboards) and type [:][w][!](filename), or just [:][w].

      more complicated things just get in the way. Easier to hit [ctrl][f] for find, or [esc][/]? Easier to hit [d][6][d] to delete the current line and the next five lines, or [home][shift]+([down][down][down][down][down][end] )[delete]?

      etc.

    7. Re:vim mode? by Rits · · Score: 1

      Besides having those mouse gestures, Opera also uses most of the keys on your keyboard as single key shortcuts. See the list of shortcuts.

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    8. Re:vim mode? by FFFish · · Score: 2

      Point of Fact: Opera has extensive keyboard support. Almost every single keypress does, indeed, do something.

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    9. Re:vim mode? by The+Pim · · Score: 2
      It would be strange if pagedown worked in a textbox

      Ok, but now you seem to be acknowledging that even "normal" users (presumably, pagedown is among the more egalitarian keys) can cope with a keyboard command having different meanings in page focus and inputbox focus. Your original point seemed to be that this is too confusing for novices and must be avoided. I guess you were referring only to menu accelerators; but in that case, you shouldn't be to concerned about vim mode, because almost all of the single-key commands would be navigation commands (like pagedown).

      And FWIW, I would be in favor of pagedown scrolling the page in single-line textboxes, since it can't have any other meaning.

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    10. Re:vim mode? by The+Pim · · Score: 1
      I would give my left foot for a vim-like mode in mozilla.

      You send me your left foot and I'll make Mozilla support a vim-like mode.

      I am such a klutz! I meant to type "left food". I have some pasta here I can't finish (with fra diavolo sauce, which should be appealing if you are who you suggest). Let me know where I can send it. I'll give you half as an advance, and put the rest in the freezer until you finish.

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    11. Re:vim mode? by Dlugar · · Score: 1

      I am such a klutz!

      Hm. Apparently you have two left feet?

      Dlugar

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    12. Re:vim mode? by cobar · · Score: 1

      Actually I quite prefer Ctrl-[, since unless you remap your keyboard, Esc. is out of the way.

    13. Re:vim mode? by Yarn · · Score: 2

      Sounds like a fair deal, though I am more used to accepting souls in return.

      Duh, the foot will include the sole of course!

      :P

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    14. Re:vim mode? by Witch+Doctor · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Or just use w3m , and get vim-like bindings to your web browsing :)

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    15. Re:vim mode? by Zard+Biomatrix · · Score: 0

      it's funny... looking back, i have no idea why i would ever want to learn something like VI. but i'm really glad i did. once you get used to it, it's just a reflex...

      the main advantage is that you get to use all the keys that are easy to reach...essentially, you never really have to move your hand from the 'asdf' keys... this is faster and requires less effort.

      i'm so very lazy.

      /zard

  52. This can't work by humming · · Score: 3, Funny

    atleast for me, as I keep wiggling the mouse, marking random text and pressing buttons while I read a page. Dunno why, compulsive disorder probably. ;)

    Atleast I learned pretty quick not to mark text text and press middle mousebutton in mozilla. :)

    //Humming

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    I'm too stupid to preview.
    1. Re:This can't work by rtaylor · · Score: 2

      The sad part is that I ran the mouse under your subject line, highlighted the comment -- then read it.

      Apparently your not the only one who may have issues with this type of feature.

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      Rod Taylor
    2. Re:This can't work by Insanity · · Score: 1

      Opera handles that rather well... gestures aren't interpreted unless the right mouse button is being held down.

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      Nix absolutably seriousness.
  53. Can Slashdot help them stop adding features? by Tony+Shepps · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm just about at the end of my wick over certain mozilla bugs, such as the myriad problems with cursor management in textareas. Over the last six months to a year, I swear Moz has moved backwards in getting rid of these kinds of piddling little problems - problems which, in my opinion, absolutely prevent its wider acceptance.

    The usual reply is that you can't prevent people from working on what they want to work on. Well guess what, if the piddling little bugs aren't fixed, there won't BE an open source browser for you to add your favorite little quirks to.

    I'm composing this in Moz and if I hit the right arrow button at the end of a line, the cursor will go to the top of the text area. If I hit the down arrow key, it will create a hidden EOL. Sometimes entire lines of text just disappear and then re-appear. Sometimes unhighlighted text remains highlighted. Once in a while it even crashes, which I like because then at least something has a chance of getting attention.

    It's so bush, too, that's the problem with it. Looks like Moz can manage to claim compatibility with important WWW standards but CAN'T MANAGE STANDARD TEXT EDITING.

    You can complain about me complaining, but my contribution is not coding, and all my words are out of frustration for seeing these stupid little bugs live on for month after month. To live to make it into milestone after milestone. And the worst part is, IT USED TO WORK PERFECTLY. At some point, probably last spring, text editing was BROKEN. WTF, people?

    And I won't even mention how many times the window focus problems have changed but not improved in the last six months. And to think that, a year ago, I though Moz was three months away from "ready".

    1. Re:Can Slashdot help them stop adding features? by Eloquence · · Score: 5, Interesting
      You make valid points. I am not very familiar with the Bugzilla interface. But I tend to think that interfaces mean a lot, and with slight changes there often come great increases in productivity and changes in direction.

      The problem that important bugs remain unfixed seems to stem from a lack of knowledge and motivation for developers to concentrate on the important stuff. All bugs are considered equal. So when everything is equal, it seems to be logical to do what looks "cool" to you instead of what may actually be important. On the other hand, if fixing important bugs increases your status in the Mozilla community more than adding features, the problems you describe are likely to go away soon.

      I notice that Bugzilla already has a voting system. That is good. However, it seems to be mostly unused. That is bad. Why is that so? Probably because the voting interface is deeply integrated into the complex Bugzilla interface, which most end users will never access directly (let alone create an account for, which is necessary to vote) but only through the templates -- but you need the end users to vote on the most annoying bugs. How can that be changed? Perhaps all reported bugs should also be automatically submitted to a collaborative weblog like Kuro5hin. Scoop, the K5 engine, is open source. It allows users to vote on "stories" submitted, either to the front page or to a page section. In this specific application, users would have to decide which bugs and feature suggestions are very important, which ones are relatively important, and which ones are irrelevant.

      This seems to be the simplest solution -- many others are possible, from improving the Bugzilla interface to integrating Bugzilla bugs into an existing weblog. You could also create a new native interface to report and rate bugs (and to rate the users who rate bugs), but that is the most time-intensive approach (if the most promising).

      In general, I think that the current state of Mozilla reveals a clear weakness in the development model, one which is likely to only show up in very large projects. Improving the interface(s) to rate bugs and feature suggestions and to find the bugs that really matter should be a priority -- and the tools to do that could be useful to others, as well.

    2. Re:Can Slashdot help them stop adding features? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A) They really don't want *everyone* voting on bugs. Mozilla is for developing/testing, and if someone can't figure out bugzilla, too bad. There's already lots of dumb bugs (I've submitted a couple), and the last thing they need is "Mozilla broke my Coffee Cup Holder" stuff. Besides, lots of people vote on bugs so the argument is moot.

      B) Bugzilla is (I think) difficult to search and doesn't show related or similar or 'meta' bugs very well. This leads to lots of duplicate bug reports. It's also tough to tell the feature requests from the bugs.

      C) K5 lets you submit stories, vote on stories and submit comments. That's pretty much exactly what Bugzilla does -- the features are broadly similar. Besides, I think you are over-estimating Mozilla as a 'user-driven' project. The features and specs are defined internally at Netscape and a bunch of "insightful" boobs aren't really going to change that.

    3. Re:Can Slashdot help them stop adding features? by Eloquence · · Score: 1

      Why do you believe that, as the amount of user input is increased, the noise level increases, when users also act as moderators, via votes and comments? I believe the opposite, that such a system could scale very well, with a frequently visited "Top Bugs" and "Top Features" page, a "Hall of Fame" with the best bughunters and best reporters (reporters who have reported bugs which have been frequently fixed), massive user input on submitted bugs (if you can't properly filter dupes with machines, use humans instead -- here the kind of editorial pedants who frequent sites like K5 would actually be useful) etc. etc. Learn from SETI@Home: Build motivation factors into the system. Learn from weblogs: Improve usability and compensate noise through collaborative moderation.

    4. Re:Can Slashdot help them stop adding features? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I feel the same. There are a few bugs that render moz unusable for public consumption (albeiot I use it exclusively for the last 12 months).

      1/ Text editing is broken
      2/ Moz sometimes grabs focus3/ Sometimes it misses mouseup events, and start thinking that mousedown are drags
      3/ Sometimes copy/paste fails
      4/ IMAP mail sometimes f*** up, and starting missing mail until every mozilla.exe are killed (if using the pre-loaded mode, then you have to kill the hidden moz)

      Those are, IMHO, the most terrible bugs. Those are sooo bug that I thought they would fix them ASAP, but no. Looks like they don't care.

    5. Re:Can Slashdot help them stop adding features? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would like to rant on this and whine to the developers on how they *MUST* fix this #@$@%^@#%$ bug soon, but I'm writing it from said textbox, which does not work properly. *sigh* I guess I should just submit the bug a few zillion times? :) That's how often I run into it...

    6. Re:Can Slashdot help them stop adding features? by oldays · · Score: 1

      Well, there's just too many dumb wrong things with moz.. I personaly don't see any reason to work on it: konq is smaller and stabler, I hear, and moz misses the most obvious things: they work on it for ages and "esc" key doesn't stop animations in linux. This leads me to think that either people working on it don't have a clue, don't care about linux, the code's too large and complex to fix, or something along these lines. Oh, and at the same time they do have irc and mail and skins.. so what does this tell me? That my priorities have nothing in common with moz priorities, hence if I wanted to hack on an open source browser, konq or something else would come before moz. As things are, I'm fairly happy with the combination of lynx and old netscape, and I'm working on other open source things that I feel are more interesting to me.

    7. Re:Can Slashdot help them stop adding features? by mattdm · · Score: 2

      All bugs aren't equal. In addition to the voting, there's various priority and severity levels. There's stuff for tracking bugs which get reported a lot. There's targeting for which bugs should be fixed for what release. There's the "dog food" and "cat food" tags. And more. In my experience, although there are a lot of annoying things that have taken a long time to fix, a lot of really critical things get fixed very very quickly.

  54. IM CUMMINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I woke up, it was 10 o'clock. I heard the shower going and
    knew it was Mom. According to our plan, Karen was long gone, with
    the promise to be away until noon. I hopped out of bed, my latest
    boner swaying in front of me, and walked to the bathroom door.
    The door was partway open and clouds of steam were emanating
    therefrom. I knocked on the door, pushing it open a bit more, and
    called in. "Mom, can I come in and use the toilet?"
    "Of course, dear," came the expected reply. Still naked, I
    walked in, shut the door and lifted the seat. You guys know how
    difficult it is to pee with a hard-on. I had to lean on one hand
    on the tank and force my johnson to point down at the bowl. At
    first, little trickles just slipped out, but soon my schlong
    relaxed, and with a sigh of relief I cut loose.
    Mom was being very quiet, and I imagined she was listening.
    I glanced up into the mirror to my right (the tub was behind me),
    and caught a glimpse of moving shower curtains. I wondered if she
    was watching. All the better if she was.
    After I flushed the john, I stood there and started jacking
    my rod back to hardness. After a couple minutes of this, the
    shower stopped and Mom called out "Are you still in here?"
    "Yeah."
    "What are you doing?"
    "Nothing."
    "That doesn't look like 'nothing' to me."
    "You're not supposed to be looking, Mom."
    "I wasn't, not on purpose, I just noticed, that's all."
    At this point, she pulled back the shower curtain, revealing
    herself wrapped in a towel, and met my gaze reflected in the
    mirror. Feigning modesty, I grabbed a hand towel, sat down on the
    toilet lid and covered my lap. I stared at her frankly, letting
    my gaze travel from the red hair piled on top of her head, to her
    smooth bare shoulders, to the few little freckles sprinkling the
    slight bit of cleavage visible above the towel, to the curves
    bulging under that towel, to the freshly shaved, gorgeous legs, and
    I couldn't see her feet in the tub. (No loss, I think feet are
    ugly.)
    "Well?" I said.
    "Well what?"
    "Well, are you going to leave so I can finish?"
    "You mean, you're still going to masturbate after I've caught
    you?" she asked.
    "Of course, I've got to do this several times a day or I go
    crazy, I get so horny."
    "Several times a day? That seems excessive. Why so much?"
    I pretended to get a little irritated at the questions,
    although the longer we talked, the better my chances. "There are
    so many stimuli all around me. The girls at school wear tight
    clothes and show lots of skin, but few of them put out, and the
    ones that do are ugly. Then Karen's parading around here half
    naked all the time. A guy just gets turned on. Oh, and seeing you
    in that towel isn't helping matters."
    "Me?! Well... I... I'm sorry, I guess. But I'm worried
    about you, Steve. It can't be healthy to do that all the time."
    ""I've never suffered any ill effects, Mom. No fur on my
    palms, no incipient blindness. About the only bad thing is I
    sometimes rub myself raw. Occupational hazard, I guess."
    At this point, Mom stepped out of the shower and sat on the
    edge of the tub, knees primly together. "Perhaps you're not doing
    it right," she said.
    (Hmmm, THAT sounded interesting.)
    "What's so difficult about it, Mom? You just grab and go."
    "That's not true at all. There are many techniques to
    practice, even in masturbation."
    (Oh, yeah. Now we're getting somewhere.)
    "Get out," I said in mock naivete, "how many flavors of
    vanilla are there? I can't believe there's all that much variety."
    "Of course, there is. I can see your sex education is sadly
    lacking. Perhaps I've been remiss in my duties."
    That definitely sounded right on target. Karen was really
    right about this approach. I've got to hand it to her - pun
    intended. With very little prompting I was going to get lucky.
    "What are you going to do, teach me to jack off?"
    "I think that might be in order. We can't have you rubbing
    yourself raw, can we? Why don't you show me your technique."
    "Are you kidding?" I pretended to be incredulous. Can't
    appear too eager to whack off for Mom.
    "No I'm not." she said, then snatched off my lap towel.
    "Let's get down to business here."
    "Well, okay, I guess, but I feel weird."
    "No need to be embarrassed, dear. I'm your mother."
    "That's my point," I said glumly, then shrugged my shoulders
    and attacked my soldier, almost literally. I never actually rubbed
    myself raw, but I acted as if I were trying to.
    "Oh, my," Mom gasped. "That's all wrong. Don't grasp so hard,
    and don't go so fast. Here, stop. Now, loosen your grasp. More,
    okay. Go ahead. No slow down. Slower. More smoothly. That's
    it. No. You're speeding up again."
    "Oh, for crying out loud." I said, dropping my dick and
    sitting back. "Suppose you show me how."
    "I probably should. I'm surprised you still masturbate when
    you do it like that," she said leaning forward, "it hardly seems
    pleasurable at all." she paused a bit, eying my schlong
    critically.
    "Come on," I thought, "go for it, go for it."
    "Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt anything. In fact, it's to
    keep you from hurting yourself.
    YES!!! It was all I could do to keep from leaping up and
    high-fiving myself. Without further ado, Mom grasped me in her
    cool hand and began to stroke lightly.
    "Fast and hard is okay once in a while," she said as if
    addressing a class, "or if you're in a hurry. But when someone
    does this as often as you, you should take it slow, easy and build
    up to it. I guarantee you'll enjoy it a lot more."
    During this lecture, Mom continued to stroke lightly, it
    really did feel better, too. Her technique was definitely
    different from mine, but I wondered if it was the stroke or the
    stroker which was producing these intense feelings. Probably both.
    "Sometimes, you don't need to pump, even, you can do this,"
    Here she stopped stroking and squeezed me lightly, quickly and
    rhythmically. "Or this," and she tickled the underside with her
    nails. "Or this," and she grabbed my head like the top of a stick
    shift, rubbing me against her palm. Then, to my horror, she
    stopped, saying "Now you try." I almost groaned in disappointment,
    but manfully grabbed my rod and followed her instructions. This
    wasn't too bad, jacking off with your Mom sure beat doing it alone.
    "Oh, yes, you're right," I said, "this is much better. This
    is really nice. Boy, too bad you women can't do this, huh?"
    "What planet are you from?" Mom snorted, "Of course we can."
    "Really?" more bogus wide-eyed innocence "How?"
    "Boy, you've really got a lot to learn. Women have very
    sensitive parts between their legs, which we can stimulate as
    easily as you men. In fact, it's a lot less work."
    Trying to keep that studious look and wondering tone, I looked
    down at the floor shyly and asked "Mom, could you show me?"
    "What? Are you kidding. I don't think so."
    "Fair's fair, Mom. I've been pretty embarrassed by this
    little tutoring session. Now when it's your turn the lesson's
    over."
    "Well, I guess it's okay. To be honest, all this sex talk has
    riled me up a little."
    More than a little, I'd guess. At this point, Mom sat forward
    a little on the tub's edge and parted her knees, spreading her legs
    wide and with them the bottom of the towel, until her pussy was
    completely exposed to my hungry gaze. Her pubes were the same
    honey red as her hair. "This is my vagina," she announced, then
    pointed out major points of interest, "these lips are called labia.
    There are actually two sets of labia, outer and inner, called
    majora and minora." She spread those labia with her fingers and
    the pink nub of her clit appeared. I noticed that she was
    extremely wet as the harsh bathroom lights glistened off her
    crotch. "This little button is called the clitoris, or clit for
    short. It is analogous to your penis, except for function. It
    also becomes engorged with blood and is VERY sensitive. Female
    masturbation is concerned with stimulating the whole area in
    general and the clit in particular. Sometimes insertion of a
    finger or an artificial penile object can add to the pleasure."
    Then she began to demonstrate. She rubbed a finger lightly
    back and forth between her lips a while, slipping between them a
    little. Next Mom flattened her hand out and rubbed her whole
    crotch with a circular motion. Each time the tips of her fingers
    passed over her clit, she caught her breath in a pleasured gasp.
    The circle got smaller and smaller as she concentrated in that
    little bud. Her left hand dropped down to part her lips and diddle
    therein while her right homed in on her clit. Next, she stopped
    her circular motion, held her labes apart with her left hand and
    vibrated her right middle finger on her clit, pausing every now and
    then to slide that finger down and in for more lubrication.
    Needless to say, this was all having a pleasurable effect on
    my jacking off. "Oh, Mom," I gasped, "this is really turning me
    on. I love watching you."
    "Me too, honey. I'm really hot."
    "Show me your tits, Mom. I really want to see them."
    Frantically frigging herself with one hand, she reached up
    with the other and pulled away the towel. Oh, God! she has great
    tits. That spray of freckles continued down between them,
    spreading out between a pair of wide-set, heavy globular mammaries.
    Each was capped by a reddish aureole and extremely erect nipples.
    In fact, her whole aureole was engorged and bulged off her already
    bulging titties. She cupped her breast with her free hand and
    rubbed those aureolae with thumb and forefinger. Then she heaved
    it up and dropped her mouth to her own nipple and licked greedily.
    This was getting to be too much for me. "Look but don't
    touch," has never been an integral part of my lexicon, anyway.
    "Can I touch you, Mom?" I asked, "Can I make you come."
    She was way too far gone to say no "Oh, yes, Steve. Yes,
    baby."
    In a flash I was on my knees before her, slipping a finger
    into her, hitting her clit with my thumb, using my other hand on
    those gorgeous knockers. I almost knocked her back into the tub
    in my enthusiasm. She grabbed my shoulders for balance, then
    groaned heavily in pleasure, "Oooohhhh, STEVE. That's so nice, so
    good. Oooohhhh, YES."
    Mom humped herself against my hand, then lifted one of her
    jugs up to her mouth again. That looked like a good idea, so I
    dropped my lips to the other nipple. Mom groaned around a mouthful
    of her own titflesh. Soon my ministrations began to have their
    intended effect. As her hip motions became more frantic, she
    leaned further back and held on to my neck tighter and tighter with
    her free hand. Finally she just used that hand to prop herself on
    the far edge of the tub and lean back. As she assumed that more
    horizontal position my mouth dropped down from her tit. Following
    that natural progression, I trailed my tongue down her torso,
    through her pubic hair and onto her clit. As I lashed that little
    man in the boat, she let go of her tit and curled her fingers in
    my hair, urging my face into her crotch. She encouraged me with
    her now unoccupied mouth, "Come on, Steve. Oh, yes. Oh, come on
    honey. That's good. Lick me. Oh, lick Mommy. Oh, lick my
    clitty. Yes, that's it, Son. Oh do it. Do me. Do your Mom!"
    And I did, I went to town on that sexy cunt and soon she was
    shouting as she came, " OH, YES. I'M CUMMING. OH, STEVE! OH,
    SON! HERE I CUM. MOMMY'S CUMMING! MOMMY'S CREAMING HER LITTLE
    SON'S FACE. OH! OH! AAAIIIEEEEE!"
    I looked up at her. Her eyes were closed as she caught her
    breath. When they opened and looked down at me, I grinned, then
    lapped her clit once. She shuddered. Then I stood up and pulled
    her back to a sitting position. I kissed the top of her head, then
    lifted her chin and kissed her deeply on the lips. She responded
    fully to my tongue in her mouth, wrapping it with hers, and kissing
    me hungrily. She pulled back a bit and licked her juices from my
    cheeks and chin. "Mmmm, I can taste myself," she murmured, "I
    taste great."
    "You're telling me," I said.
    "Oh, honey, you haven't cum yet."
    "That's okay," I said equably.
    "No it's not," she insisted (as I knew she would) "Here."
    She reached for may cock and pulled it to her lips as I stood
    up. Did I say "pulled"? Hell, she inhaled me just like Karen had
    the day before. It was instantaneous deep-throat. Then she pulled
    back and plunged down, pulled back and plunged down, back and
    forth, back and forth. I knew it wouldn't be long before I came,
    what with all that had occurred to this point, but I didn't care
    and I didn't think Mom would mind, either.
    Sure enough, after about 10 strokes I felt the oncoming rumble
    start. I groaned "Oh, Mom, I'm gonna cum." She pulled back and
    forth a couple more times, then pulled her mouth off me and grabbed
    me with her hand. "This began as a masturbation lesson," she said,
    "and that's how it's going to end."
    She started stroking me, quickly and expertly, as she urged
    me to come. "Come on, Steve. Come on, Son. Cum for me. Come for
    Mommy."
    "Oh, MOM," I chorused, "Yes. I'm gonna cum. Oh, yes. Oh,
    Mom. I'm gonna cum."
    "Yes, son, come for Mommy. Yes, Oh yes. Come on, son."
    "Oh, MOM! Oh YEAH! I'm.. I'm gonna... I'm gonna... gonna...
    CUM! (spurt) I'm CUMMING"
    "YESS!,, CUM for Mommy, come on, Steve, CUM for Mommy, fuck
    it, CUM ON MOMMY. Yes! Cum on Mommy! Cum on Mommy's titties, cum
    on Mommy's face! OH Fuck it. Cum. CUM! CUM!!!!"
    And being a dutiful son, I did as I was told, cumming like
    crazy. I spermed her tits, her throat, her chin and face. Drops
    of cum spattered into her hair and hung there like dew on a
    spiderweb. And still I came. With a little whimper, Mom plunged
    her face back onto my cock, all the way in. Her throat muscles
    milked me like a hand and half my load ended up directly down her
    throat. Finally, I stopped cumming. Mom continued to lick my rod
    clean, then let me go and lifted her tits up so she could lick the
    cum from them. God! this oversexed bitch was horny! And she was
    my Mom. I had to fuck her. Although my rod had flagged a little,
    it was still ready for action. When her tits were clean she
    dropped them and hugged me around my waist, nestling her cheek
    against my stomach.
    "Mom, I want to fuck you," I whispered as I stroked that
    gorgeous red hair.
    "We can't right now, honey," she whispered back, "your sister
    will be back soon."
    I almost fucked up and told her about Karen and me. But I
    caught myself. According to the plan, I'm not supposed to know
    about Mom and her, nor she about Mom and me. And Mom definitely
    wasn't supposed to know about us. But that's okay, the best laid
    plans of mice and men weren't half as well-laid as the three of us
    were going to be. I could afford to wait for PHASE II.

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    1. Re:IM CUMMINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Interesting to note that no one has modded this down yet.... you like this sort of thing, Slashdot?

  55. Nice but at the wrong level? by Mike+McTernan · · Score: 1

    It's good that these projects are including gesture support but I wonder if time would have been better spent designing it into some layer underneath the application? Perhaps adding X extensions for gesuture messages/events would be better?

    That way, any humble developer could add the posibility of using gesture input to their app (and it would seem popular enough that people may wat to do this), and we wouldn't have duplicated work in different apps.

    OTOH, this might make a race as to who can provide the best gesture engine and give us some great benefits.

    Just thoughts.

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  56. Re:YES, please: more ways to browse with the keybo by Ian+Bicking · · Score: 4, Insightful
    One thing I like about the keyboard is that it's so predictable -- I hit a key three times, and it's exactly three times. I have near-100% accuracy, where mice are always fuzzy -- always off by a pixel or two, sometimes much more.

    But in browsers there's another level of unpredictability that is a pain. You never know where the next tab is going to leave you. Could be any number of input forms, or a URL, or maybe you didn't realize it and your focus isn't on the page... it makes navigation with a keyboard near-impossible. Of course, this is largely true for any complicated GUI form. Browsers just happen to be the most common complicated GUI in use.

    I suppose it's because keyboards are good for modal or serial interfaces, where mice are better for more random-access interfaces. OTOH, with you use the keyboard to its full potential (i.e., as more than just a bunch of shortcuts) the keyboard can be far more expressive (e.g., CLI). But I don't have any clever ideas on how to map that to a web page.

  57. That's GIMICK, you cretin by cowbird · · Score: 1

    Always adds to your credibility when you know how to spell ...

    1. Re:That's GIMICK, you cretin by kubrick · · Score: 2

      gimick: No entry found for gimick in the dictionary.

      gimmick: a device employed to cheat, deceive...

      Always adds to your credibility when you know how to spell ...

      Yes, I've always thought so.

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  58. That's *GIMMICK*, you retard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's one thing to misspell a word, but sheesh you better be right if you're going to correct someone else's spelling.

    =]

  59. Re:Why use mozilla ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    *Yawn*

  60. I discovered gestures some time ago.... by ishark · · Score: 1

    ....and now I'm replacing all my desktop buttons/menus with gestures....
    I use a very small program, called "wayv" (URL: at sourceforge). It's definitely not friendly, but it gets the job done.
    The reason I moved to gestures to control desktop is simpler: they work ALWAYS, independently of the current state of the screen. Buttons are nice, but they always end up being covered by something, and short of Mac-like "hide all", they quickly become a pain. Win-like bars/menus or right-click menus either are too slow or are position-sensitive. A gesture isn't, and when you have one hand of the keyboard and one on the mouse they are very fast (choose simple ones!).
    I use L-Shift+Right button to trigger the recognition code, and while I get mistakes at times, I find that my desktop is much cleaner and opening applictions faster....

  61. A list of gestures in Opera... by antdude · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can view the list here. This is for Windows version and I was using Opera v5.12. This is sweet! I can't wait to use this with Mozilla and Galeon. :)

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  62. Fireball gesture? by BOFslime · · Score: 0

    Wish there was a fireball gesture.. so i could tourch M$'s page...

    w00t!.. 192 gain in belief power!

    1. Re:Fireball gesture? by GrrlBot · · Score: 1

      On the newest version, there is a fireball gesture. right, left, down, up, right to form an "f".

  63. Re:Keyboard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You can configure KDE to act just like Windows. And also mozilla is standardizing keyboard shortcuts across platforms and not tailoring to one OS's 'standard'. For example ctrl+shift+l opens the new URL window in mozilla in both linux and windows (not sure about MacOS).

  64. Re:Didn't work for me [Debian Bug] by Autumnmist · · Score: 1

    I'm runnign windows 98 and it doesnt' work either (today's mozilla build - October 4th)

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  65. Re:YES, please: more ways to browse with the keybo by jesser · · Score: 2
    But in browsers there's another level of unpredictability that is a pain. You never know where the next tab is going to leave you. Could be any number of input forms, or a URL, or maybe you didn't realize it and your focus isn't on the page... it makes navigation with a keyboard near-impossible.

    Here are some ideas that might help:

    • bug 66285 use a different shortcut to navigate tabs and to navigate links
    • bug 67684 directional keyboard navigation: instead using Tab for "go to next focusable element", you could use Alt+Shift+right for "go to closest focusable element to the right".
    • Web pages should use accesskeys more often. For example, on msn, you can press Alt+S to jump to the search field. Removing the search menu (bug 67414) from Mozilla would make it easier for page authors to use the Alt+S shortcut, giving accesskeys a much higher chance of becoming ubiquitous.
    • bug 37638 the URL bar has initial focus too often (for example, when you start the browser). It's usually better for the page in the content area to have focus, so the user can scroll the page using the keyboard. Worse, accesskeys stop working (bug 64606) when the location bar has focus
    • bug 66597 after searching the page, Tab should go to an element after the beginning of the selection rather than the first element on the page. Combined with inline search (find-as-you-type, with no dialog), this would make it easier to jump to links.
    You should also check out the netscape.public.mozilla.accessibility newsgroup. Mozilla's accessibility team spends a lot of time making sure the browser works well with the keyboard, in part because blind users can't use pointing devices easily.
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  66. modes are bad. by SensitiveMale · · Score: 0

    very bad.

    1. Re:modes are bad. by The+Pim · · Score: 2

      Poorly chosen modes can be terrible, and modes in general tend to cause difficulty for beginners. But only a brainwashed UI weenie would say "modes are bad". Do you really think that all of the hackers who find unix and vi to be the most productive work environment are masochists?

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    2. Re:modes are bad. by SensitiveMale · · Score: 0

      Poorly chosen modes can be terrible, and modes in general tend to cause difficulty for beginners. But only a brainwashed UI weenie would say "modes are bad". Do you really think that all of the hackers who find unix and vi to be the most productive work environment are masochists?

      Very nice. I say that modes are bad and not only do somehow twist my statement into insult EVERY unix user but you also get that moronic leap of logic modded up. Not bad at all. And you even throw a couple insults my way also. Bravo!

      Now, back to the point. Modes are bad. Very bad. And I don't care how adept someone is at avoiding the pitfalls of them. I'll even give you an example.

      I used to be a supervisor at UPS. At UPS they study EVERYTHING a driver does. And I mean everything. How to get out of the seat, how to carry the package car keys, how to handle packages, how to stack and organize everything. UPS times everything (by having a person ride with them with a stopwatch. Really.) and they are always looking to shave a second off of anything.

      Every once in a while UPS would come out with new procedures that were more efficient and faster. Some drivers would embrace the procedures and some wouldn't. And the reason some drivers wouldn't is because they would claim the new procedures would slow them down. And you know what they were right. And dead wrong at the same time.

      Say an act takes 1 minute to complete.

      After doing that act over and over a person learns to do that act in 50 seconds.

      A new way of doing that act takes 80 seconds, but after practicing for a few weeks it only takes 40 seconds.

      Many people refuse to accept the new way because their inital experience with the new act takes longer.

      So they base their decision on their initial experience that the new act is 'slower'.

      I'll give you another example. I can type (clocked using a typing program ) @ 50-60 words per minute.

      I know that if I learn to type 'the correct way' I could probably type over 100 wpm.

      But I don't want to type slow for the first few months until I become proficient.

      So even though I know I could type better if I chose a different way, I am comfortable and satisified with the way I am typing now.

      I don't care how efficient a user is in using an poorly designed interface. When I was in the Marines I learned to clean things very well with a toothbrush. I also learned to dig with my hands in a very efficient manner. This, of course, does not mean that there wasn't a better way or better tools to use. I did the best with what was available.

      People will learn to be as efficient as possible in any task using any tool that you give them. Whether it is a bad method or tool.

      You like Unix? Cool. You like vi? I don't care. But modes are bad. Just because you have learned to use vi quickly does not mean that modes are good or efficient. It just means that you have learned to use vi quickly.

    3. Re:modes are bad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, those unix guys are all freaks because they can handle more than one mouse button.

    4. Re:modes are bad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You, sir, are an idiot!

    5. Re:modes are bad. by The+Pim · · Score: 2
      [ You should reply to my message, not your own, if you want me to notice. ]

      not only do somehow twist my statement into insult EVERY unix user

      I'm sure there are unix users who avoid modal applications, but the common unix experience is highly modal. And this is not an insult.

      but you also get that moronic leap of logic modded up

      Uh, no. I got my other moronic leaps of logic modded up, so my score starts at 2.

      And you even throw a couple insults my way also. Bravo!

      -bows-

      (You made a glib criticism, so I took the liberty of calling you a funny name. Welcome to slashdot.)

      Modes are bad. Very bad. I'll even give you an example.

      Your example had nothing to do with modes. You didn't show that modes are bad in general or that vi is bad in particular. Try this on: in every browser I've seen, the navigation keys behave differently if you're in a text box (they move in the text box, not the page). This is a mode. Is it bad?

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    6. Re:modes are bad. by tim_maroney · · Score: 2

      Do you really think that all of the hackers who find unix and vi to be the most productive work environment are masochists?

      People blame themselves for design mistakes. They don't know the difference between system problems and their own errors. In UNIX, the jock thing to do is to laugh at anyone who makes errors, so that doesn't contribute to a calm and sensible examination of errors caused by bad system design. "It works for me -- what are you, some kind of newbie?"

      Tim

  67. How about gesture up and click the button? by SensitiveMale · · Score: 0

    Move the mouse up and click the approriate button?

  68. Re:What Are Mouse Gestures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    The most important bit is that because there's no button to hit you have a much much larger hit area. You've got the entire document window to perform a gesture. For simple gestures this outweighs the time taken to get to an icon.

    For a forward or back gesture in Opera it's just right click then drag left or right respectively. It's faster than clicking on the buttons or an ALT-LEFT/RIGHT - hell, I can do the gesture three times on my way to the gui button.

    ps. And charitable? Well - yes, it does take some time to learn. My mother certainly took at least a minute with ten minutes to master the simpler gestures (of course she can also kick my arse at streetfighter fireball thingys, so ignore my mum)

  69. Just evidence of a successful project by joelgrimes · · Score: 1

    Before you beat up on mozilla for feature creep, you should note that mouse gestures are NOT a feature IN mozilla, but an outside project of mozdev.org. If you want to use it, you have to install it. It's not in the trunk.

    Granted, the extra features have been POURING in lately (venkman, tabs, link toolbar - all within the last week), so there is a great deal of feature creep but that's a symptom of the unqualified success of mozilla. They set out to develop a platform to be used for all kinds of projects, starting with a browser - and people are using it for all kinds of projects. The way things are going, it looks like the deluge is just starting.

    I for one, couldn't be happier. It's got annoyances, but it's nightlies are stable (it hasn't crashed in so long I don't know why I bother with talkback anymore) and they've got features that I would miss dearly if I had to go back to I.E.

  70. ... by Cuthalion · · Score: 1

    Even in the limited scope of the gaming world, you're still wrong. Sacrifice used gestures before Black And White did.

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  71. Re:YES, please: more ways to browse with the keybo by Pxtl · · Score: 2

    I disagree on the URL bar issue. I'm always annoyed in IE's tendency to start with the page getting focus. Personally, I rarely even look at the page that just opened with the browser window unless I used "open in new window", often opening new windows just for new browsing. In this case, the URL bar is what should have focus.

  72. Gestures Versus Keyboards by mgv · · Score: 1

    Its funny how a simple thing like gestures has polarised /. Its really an extension of the keyboard versus mouse debate. There are purists who decry the mouse, saying that everything can be done better and faster by keyboard. They prefer the command line and never having to lift their hands from the keyboard. It works best for text and numerical applications (Coding, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, etc). If you are in this category you probably wont like gestures much either. You have more than enough commands at your disposal.

    Obviously there are proponents for the visual (WIMP) interface of the Mac, Windows and X. The mouse provides a limited set of options, but does not require learning a command set as its all on the screen. In highly visual settings this interface is more efficient than the keyboard. Few would argue the superiority of the mouse in playing 3D Games or for drawing images - Although better devices exist for these than either keyboard or mouse. If this is the style of work that you do, you are going to have a hand on the mouse at all times. To not be slowed down by the keyboard you have a few options:

    1. Use a one handed keyboard - a very productive combination with some training. (eg: http://halfkeyboard.com/)
    2. Assign all functions to an area of the keyboard used by your non mouse hand - some gamers take this approach. (eg., DiabloII)
    3. Add to the command set of the mouse (eg., with gestures and additional mouse buttons)

    The aim of all these approaches is to prevent you moving your hand from mouse to keyboard.

    Taken in this context, you can probably see why the responses have been so varied. Gestures are either useless candy or invaluable additions to how you interact with programs.

    Michael

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  73. Vote for it on Bugzilla by kimihia · · Score: 1

    If it is so important to you, go to Bugzilla, find the appropriate bug, and vote for it!

    All nice to whinge and moan, but how about you go out of your way and add your vote to encourage getting it fixed.

    And yes, I use Mozilla TEXTAREAs a heck of a lot and they could be better. 0.9.4 was a big improvement over the ones in 0.9.2 anyway.

    PS, IE5 also has the "press down at the bottom of the textarea to create a hidden EOL".

    1. Re:Vote for it on Bugzilla by Tony+Shepps · · Score: 2

      I have voted for all the relevant bugs.

    2. Re:Vote for it on Bugzilla by kimihia · · Score: 1

      Excellent!

  74. Re:YES, please: more ways to browse with the keybo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I like the way Lynx does it; you flip through the links with the keyboard,
    and as each link gets highlighted, the URL appears on the bottom statusbar.
    Only problem is, sometimes having to flip through links in the order they appear in the page
    can become a pain...

  75. Huh? Where's the bugzilla number for that? by Derek+Pomery · · Score: 1

    I have never really run into these problems you report. Have you filed a bug report? Given a build number, platform, steps to reproduce?

    Unfortunately I'm under Win2k at the moment so can't test (although I haven't noticed it under the Linux machine at work either) but:
    hitting right arrow at the end of a line sends the cursor to the next line. If at the last line, just doesn't move

    Down arrow goes to the next line, again does nothing on the last line.

    I've never had entire lines of text disappear. Or any problems with highlighting.

    And I have only had it crash on me once in a particularly unusual and fairly difficult to reproduce circumstance (although quite reproducible). The bug I reported on that has been faithfully tracked and appended to a dozen times or so.

    And this is with me using the latest nightly builds.

    Mozilla has better standards compliance then IE (try http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspira l/demo.html), and although it has problems, I find it much more pleasant to use than IE (assuming I'm on a Sparc, or under Windows) or Opera, and it just has more to it than Konqueror.

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  76. Sometimes I really ought to preview. by Derek+Pomery · · Score: 1

    "particularly unusual and fairly difficult to reproduce circumstance (although quite reproducible)"

    Erm. I meant that it is difficult to do accidently, but can be done each time once you know how.

    Time to take a nap, I think...

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  77. Not a bad idea but... by pigeonhk · · Score: 1

    I'd say it could be better if mouse gestures input is handled by X or the window manager, like wayV. I suppose you can match mouse gestures to keystrokes and therefore theoretically you could use gestures for any application under X.

    The downside will be you might need to alter the default keystrokes in different applications so that you can have a single mouse gestures generating a single keystroke to do different functions in different windows.

    I'd say this problem can also be solved by a much more sophisticated window manager, which is able to generate different keystorkes on the same mouse gestures, based on the current focus of windows.

    Anyway, I don't think mouse gestures will help myself much. Personally I have RSI for the mouse wheel already .

    On the other hand, what will be interesting to see is if we can define some even more special move for the mouse to do different things, as if you're playing those action fighting games.

    Hold down middle button -> move your mouse Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right -> Release middle button will send a SIGKILL to all applications? :)

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  78. Other B&W features coming to Mozilla... by Speare · · Score: 2

    Here's a list of a few new features that the Moz team have been debating, also inspired by the trend-setting video game, Black & White:

    • MozCreature
      This follows after the B&W 'creature' concept. An animated "buddy" tries to watch how you browse the web, and learns what pages to prefetch or submit every morning for you. You can scratch/fondle/slap your MozCreature to reinforce its tendency to discover new free porn for you, or punish the MozCreature to ensure that you never again wake up to find many First Posts on slashdot in your name. Lizard, Gnome, Ximian or Shadowman character art choices are included, but many more risquee "skin" packs are hitting the popular theme sites already. Caution: while the MozCreature can eat ad banners, a steady diet of ad banners will send the MozCreature into an IIS-defacing frenzy.
    • MozLeash
      The concept of bookmarks is antiquated in modern internet terms. Once your MozCreature is on the loose, you can use your MozLeash module to assist in the training of the creature; limit their browsing domain to any hostmask or subnet you like, or avoid the MozCreature's tendency to battle for supremacy on many popular websites. Leashing your MozCreature to other popular applications such as the GIMP, nmap or GPG is also possible, but it's up to you to observe the truly remarkable effects while you train your MozCreature to full proficiency.
    • MozVillagers
      Adding new JavaScript tags to your websites attracts your MozVillagers to point, click, play and explore your websites more than any real web visitor would. These MozVillager scripts will aid in your site's ad revenues by cavorting around GIF web-bugs as if in reverence, and occasionally clicking-thru to your sponsor sites to increase your marketing manna. The MozCreature, properly trained, can create and publish new MozVillager web scripts on your behalf, but remember, your MozCreature may end up teaching your competition some stupid web tricks as well.

    All in all, Mozilla's ever-expanding suite of features, copied from every other application under the sun, shows the power and flexibility of the community development process. Netscape never had the temerity to battle it out, but armed with the MozCreature, MozLeash and MozVillager features, a new mythical landscape redefines the browser wars. Redmond's Clippy has never been in such peril.

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  79. How about load speed of "Back" by sumengen · · Score: 1

    I like mosuse gestures, especially being able to go back with a small effort.

    Now, How good is mozillas mouse gesture support if I wait two seconds to go back in history and load the cached page. This applies to galeon too. using mouse gestures needs some responsiveness. Otherwise I can click "Back" button too.

    Opera on the other hand is instantenous to browse "Back" and actually makes a perfect fit for mouse gestures.

  80. Re:Huh? Where's the bugzilla number for that? by Tony+Shepps · · Score: 2

    Yup, I've been up and down Bugzilla making sure that all the complaints that I can verify are already noted accurately.

    There are the bugs that I've been tracking:

    83650: textarea control has problems with caret positioning at end

    82151: Right arrow key at end of a TEXTAREA goes to the beginning

    68331: Moving caret in TEXTAREA to start of line can cause page to scroll horizontally

    75629: Need better support for setting selection in text inputs and textareas

    88024: Down arrow key creates fake line break at the end of a TEXTAREA

    74383: textarea input form crashed during complex edit session

    During the composition of this reply, I encountered and had to work around several of these.

  81. Lynx Numbered links by quixotal · · Score: 1


    What GUI browsers need are numbered links and forms like Lynx has.

    IMO this is the only way to have total control with your keyboard. Otherwise, users waste time tabbing around.

    quixotal

  82. Re:Huh? Where's the bugzilla number for that? by jacobito · · Score: 2

    Thank you for posting the bug numbers. I'm going to vote for some of these, because these are major bugs, and I'm experiencing them, too. Hopefully other readers will do the same.

  83. opera troubles by oldays · · Score: 1

    The trouble with opera is that it's unstable on linux. I'm using debian and dynamic opera didn't show images at all (gifs, anyway), and when someone told me I should use static, I did so and images work but sometimes opera locks up X completely. As in, I have to go to console, kill opera and then X totally goes down. So, I'm stuck using netscape for image navigation/jscript and lynx for everything else (~95%). Actually, bad choice of wording here: I'm not stuck, this is very comfortable and useable.. oh, and moz doesn't stop gif animation with Esc. Nor does it have reasonable keyboard shortcuts like opera. Oh, and one more thing: opera don't have vi-like mode like lynx does, which is imho the best part about keyboard shortcuts. See, the whole thing is that I want ot be completely free from mouse - I do a lot of typing between browsing, I may switch to vim and work on a program or a website, and then go to links and browse here and there, so switching one hand to mouse is a major slow-down. IOW, opera went in the right direction but stopped short of reaching the nirvana of input interface: pure keyboard input. You get this quantum leap feeling when you absolutely don't have to use mouse. Lynx has 2 features that accomplish that leap: numbered links and vi-like navigation. If opera had that and didnt' crash X now and then, It'd be perfect and I'd pay for it, even. And when i get a job and don't worry about the money, I'd even pay some extra on top for any browser that did that. And to the "mouse is just as good" croud: I think the difference is that mouse gives ya instant gratification, 10 seconds and you're quick as a fox. But you don't get much faster as time goes by.. with keyboard navigation, it's awkward at first, useable after a few hours, and then it gets faster and faster as you use it, for years. At the end, it's faster and easier, and well worth it if you use computer for a few hours every day on average. Just imho of course.

    1. Re:opera troubles by unapersson · · Score: 1

      Look in Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Images and you can say exactly how you'd like animated gifs to act (i.e. cycle once/never).

      I sure there's a way to stop animation from the UI, pressing the stop button may do it. I can't remember off hand as I've got mine set to never...

      ian.

    2. Re:opera troubles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm using debian and dynamic opera didn't show images at all (gifs, anyway)

      No, because your version of Qt has been compiled without GIF support. This isn't a problem with Opera at all. Recompile Qt with GIF support.

  84. Mozilla isn't supposed to be fast, light... yet. by Penguinoflight · · Score: 1

    Most people ignore the stuff on Mozilla.org that says they haven't even started optimizing. They want to make a virtially bug-free, standards compliant, stable base, then make it fast.

    As a web designer I applaud this greatly. Go ahead and compare it against IE, because it's slower than lynx, but don't compare vs Konqueror, and act like Mozilla is behind. Mozilla beats the tar.gz out of Konqueror for stability :-)

    "I tried M18 and it was slow" isn't a very good excuse, M18 is a year old. 0.9.x is very usable on 300-500mhz machines with 64mb ram.

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  85. Voice Nav is better by SCHecklerX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And if you have ever used OS/2 Warp with Netscape (which was speech enabled on the OS/2 platform), you'd see how crummy your gestures are. Try surfing hands free. No mouse required. Speak a link that is on the page, it goes there. No pointy-clicky required.

    1. Re:Voice Nav is better by egreB · · Score: 1

      Now that sounds great! Does anybody know of any projects that enables this kind of surfing under Linux?

      -B

    2. Re:Voice Nav is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      Try surfing hands free. No mouse required. Speak a link that is on the page, it goes there. No pointy-clicky required.


      Think, just think of surfing pr0n like this. In addition to having _both_ hands free you would get the added excitement of getting to speak out the names of links. "Dirty teen slut takes on two!!!" :P

  86. what I'd really like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... is a completed version of Mozilla, mice guestures or not. I'm still on Netsrape 4.77 because it is faster & more stable than Mozilla! :|

  87. Bad Haiku by Cryptimus · · Score: 1


    mozilla features

    faulty codepaths multiply

    watch bugzilla feed

  88. Re:Hi there [way off topic, flame, read] by ImaLamer · · Score: 1

    I clicked on your sig, and I must simply say: You are a moron.

    My favorite part:
    Chat Log [?]
    jsm: yeh for fucking infrared mice, and for about a thousand makes of webcam it does. Get real here. For my fucking floppy disk drive, I am telling you through bitter experience it does not. Even if someone has written the drivers in the last week


    It seems you are saying thousands of [usb] webcams are supported under linux, which would be a good thing, but it's not true.

    You obviously know nothing about computers. First off, you never mentioned that EVERYWHERE, EVERYONE says to backup your HD before trying to mix Linux and Windows. It's common sense.

    You lost data because you don't know what you are doing. Yes, you must defrag the drive before resizing a partition! Even windows apps such as PartitionMagic[tm] tells you to do this. But! Normally the windows' defrag will place the data at the start of the drive but it won't always do that. I would recommend putting down big bucks for a defrag program that you can customize like Norton.

    [2] Linux broke your computer? How? Because of some crappy data loss. Since '95 came out I've formatted my HD 6-7 times because I had no choice. But! I could reinstall windows every time! Even though the Win98SE CD-ROM doesn't boot on it's own and I must drive miles to get a bootable floppy, with the right CD-ROM drivers... etc.

    [3] LFT!?!? Read this:
    linuxbabe: you shuold have defragmented. windows scatters data all over your hard drive so the installer cant just find a clean chunk to install into. it isn't linux fault {---- distinct signs of LFT being approached
    linuxbabe: that windoze disk management blows

    She's right! It does suck. So does it's memory management.. and so on.

    [4]Soft modems.
    jsm: So in other words, my fucking modem is never going to work with Linux at all?
    While I don't agree with linuxbabe [but i still love and respect you 'babe] saying that it's an M$ plot to control the OS market. Soft modems are supposedly designed that way to save costs. The company who made your modem made it that way to use less chips and control the modem through software. It's a faulty design on any system. Your CPU is doing all the work while the modem should be. The costs are cut at your expense.

    What the whole thing comes down to: Your dumb. You should'a done your homework before installing another OS. You could'a installed it inside your current partition. Try installing NT; I just installed debain [for fun] and I can't get past step 4 in the NT install. You bought Linux books? There is nothing in those books for a normal user that isn't on the web. You don't have common sense. And lastly: I hate you.

    Thank you the flamer lamer has left the building.

  89. Bug 25538 by Will+Sargent · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is very annoying. The bug number is 25538 if you want to vote on it.

  90. A long, long time ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Mice were used for pointing at a small point on a 2-dimensional surface. And the keyboard was this magical device which let you use your fingers, as it is easier to hit a key.

    Not anymore, I guess. The keyboard is now that annoying thing you only have to use when typing in text. And the mouse is great for accelerating your aquisition of RSI.

  91. Re:Hi there [way off topic, flame, read] by uchian · · Score: 1

    Hint of advice - adequacy.org is a great site to go to if you want to get your blood pressure up.

    I haven't figured out yet whether or not it is "for real" or if it is just a place to go to insult people, troll and generally be a bastard. Still, I'm guessing on the latter :-)

  92. My Logitech Mouse(ware) does it by Ilgaz · · Score: 1

    It nearly "surprised" me first time I saw, but when I change "thumb buttons job" to "internet back command" it sure works perfect on Mozilla/Netscape 6.x. (mouseman+, Mouseware 9.29)

    I once asked them (on 9.20 or something, now it is 9.29) why they didn't support at least internet back command, their tech support got it wrong and talked about they couldn't find a way to make webwheel (another logitech thing) work in Mozilla... That time it surprised me since whole Mozilla source is open.

  93. You're not alone. by Vermifax · · Score: 1

    For whatever reason I do this as well. I don't press random buttons but there is much mouse wiggling and marking random text.

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  94. Beautiful! by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 1

    I'm so addicted to the Opera ones that I'm doing gestures in all my other programs.... lol. I hope they are compatible with each other, and that all other programs follows... :)

    Sure keyboard shortcuts are good too, but I've noticed thath mouse gestures are even more effective. And Opera has all the keyboard fancy too, of course... together it is awesome!

  95. complete version of mozilla by timothy · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.

    I can't say it's *perfect* (what is?), but I am very happy with recent Mozilla builds (grabbing binaries from their site), don't find them crashy at all on either Linux (running on Mandrake and sometimes other distros, no real difference I've noticed) as well as Mac OS (9).

    The tabs rock, the bookmarks are more manageable, and even the IRC client chatzilla is now quite nice. (Huge improvements there! Incredible progress, from 'barely useable, funny novelty' to 'Uhh, why was I starting that other program to do IRC?'*)

    I find it faster and more stable than Netscape on the same hardware (midrange athlons and durons for the Linux machine, one has 128, one has 586 MB of RAM, the Mac is an iBook which worked fine with 128MB and now has 384).
    Anyhow, maybe you're just hitting things I have no need for, but I can't see any 4.XX netscape being better in normal use than current mozilla ...

    And besides, (I hope that) Mozilla will never be "finished" no matter what numbers are attached to it ... when it's finished, wouldn't that mean no more progress?

    Tim

    *Chatzilla is also not yet perfect, but it is a pretty good subset of perfect for my needs right now. Better DCC capabilities would be good, as would instant new channels for private msgs, like Xchat.

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  96. Re:Hi there [way off topic, flame, read] by ImaLamer · · Score: 1

    You are right... it's a site that lets your inside bastard come out online.

    I guess its also a site which thrives on lies, insults to whole groups of people, and dumb people who like to type.

    Someone should'a bought that kid mavis beacon.

    As someone on that site pointed out, he is probably getting paid directly by M$

  97. Gestures have been in Mozilla since .92 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The "click" and "move mouse" gestures are hooked up to the "shutdown" action (some call it a crash)

  98. mouse gesture for popups? by notsboyd · · Score: 1

    up, click, left, click, right, click, down, click, left, click, up, click, xterm, kill -9 ..

    So what would be the appropriate gesture for killing popup windows?? Invaluable when browsing for pr.. Eh , exotic sites.. :D

    --
    sigfault
  99. Re:YES, please: more ways to browse with the keybo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, IE's philosophy seems to be that new windows are either a clone of an existing window, or the home page (probably MSN). Mozilla seems to treat new windows as really new and gives you location bar focus

    However - Consider that most users rarely use the location bar. They use bookmarks and links and search engines don't often go and type random addresses. Making a newbie mode with the location bar Read Only wouldn't be the worst idea and would sort out the keyboard issues. (File+Open URL is still there).

    I agree that Moz seems to have a good balance here -- for you and me and other power users. One thing that I can't stand is how Netscape 4.x required you to specifically put focus on the page. (Push PgDn and get some random URL from your history?)

  100. Gestures are already there ... by Bio · · Score: 1

    There already is one gesture for "Page Back":

    Hold down the right mouse button, move the mouse in lower right direction and release mouse button :-)

  101. Re:Why use mozilla ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    cos IE doesnt work on linux ?

  102. Hand Gestures.. 2nd Nature by Jedbro · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why people are complaing!
    First of all this is an "Optional" download for Mozilla, has nothing to do with mozilla.org.

    Secondly, seems people are ranting without even trying it. I always thought mouse gestures were stupid.. But once I tried it.. I changed my mind.

    Basically, when I'm browsing, I'm leaning far back in my chair (probably bad for my back), looking back-&-forth between my TV and laptop.. Since my hands are away from the Keyboard, Gestures make my life so much esier. Plus, so much faster.. instead of having to go up and click on the File Menu, (or reach over to the keyboard), I just hold my middle maouse button, and Draw a S or T (for tabs).. and Voila!! I'm ready...

    Very easy, and very natural movments.. I really reommend peopl try it out. (just remember, this is version 0.1.4... has a long way to go.

    Cheers

    --JEDBRO

  103. hmm by Ithil · · Score: 0

    I just tried it with IE 5.50 on Windows 98, and the context menu didn't come up until mouse-up.

  104. Even better! by Ithil · · Score: 0

    Put a big mouse ball (or several, for stability) underneath the keyboard! Get a big keyboard pad, and you have a two in one! Think of the insanity! THINK, DAMN YOU!!!

    Ahem... yes.

    - Ithil