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Mozilla Project Turns 5
GreyWolf3000 writes "As this notice in tinderbox shows, Mozilla turns five years old today. A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use. The trunk is feature frozen for the upcoming alpha release for 1.4. Can't wait to see what's in store next!" Read on for another odometer reading -- Mozilla's 200,000th bug report, perhaps just as auspicious a landmark.
zzxc writes "The 200,000th bug has been filed in Mozilla's bugzilla, MozillaZine reports. It was filed at 5:11pm EDT. (21:11GMT) The bug, which is already 'verified invalid,' is 'MailNews crashes after extremely long 'joke of the day' html spam mail.' This comes on the 5 year anniversery of the release of Netscape's source code, also reported by MozillaZine. Bug 100000 was opened on 9/16/01 after three years of development, while bug 200000 comes in less than 19 months from the previous milestone."
Most configurable ? Have you ever seen the about:config page in Mozilla ? ;)
Guvf vf abg n EBG zrffntr
There is no kitchen sink in Mozilla and there will not be in the foreseeable future. Read the bug.
About as funny as jokes about Clinton's infidelity, or cigars, or blue dresses.
The following message should be appearing in the Mozilla newsgroups any time now:
0 00
S lashdotter category.
:-)
A few minutes ago, at 13:11 PST on 2003-03-31, the 200,000th bug was filed in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200
Rather fittingly, it was filed by Chris Hofmann, head honcho of Netscape's embedding team and staunch Mozilla supporter, and is titled "joke of the day spam mail crash". (Note: please don't mess with the bug.)
Consulting my records, I see that the closest guess to the actual date and time was made by:
1st: 2003-04-01 00:00:01 bradangelcyk@hotmail.com (10 hrs, 50 mins)
a mere 10 hours and 50 minutes out. Congratulations to him; he wins a Mozilla 1.0 CD if he sends me his address.
Runners-up:
2nd: 2003-04-02 10:15:36 coch@myrealbox.com (45 hrs, 05 mins)
3rd: 2003-04-02 16:12:44 crisscott@netzero.net (51 hrs, 02 mins)
coch@myrealbox.com wins the I-have-a-Bugzilla-account-and-so-am-not-a-random-
Not every entry had an equal chance of winning the prize. Nine people submitted dates which were before the contest started (clue: this year is 2003, chaps, not 2002), and several people thought we were going to file 20,000 bugs in a matter of about a week. One person thought that he'd get away from the crowd by guessing a date in the 13th month of 2003 (what does he know that we don't?), and the furthest out two guesses had us still struggling towards the mark this time next year.
Thanks to all who took part
Gerv
Preferences > Privacy & Security > Popup Windows
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Yep, they moved it. It's now under Privacy & Security/Popup Windows.
The way it works has been changed slightly, too; now you can choose to either allow or suppress popups, and provide a list of exceptions. Whenever it suppresses a popup, it displays a little icon in the bottom right that you can click to allow it. I find this to be a little annoying, because I've really found that the only popups I ever got with the "unrequested" option were ones I wanted anyway, and now I have to allow them all...
Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
BULLSHIT.
Nimda is not transmitted thru email. It's a Worm which is solely propigated via unsecured/unpactched IIS installations.
Mayhap you should turn off IIS and/or patch his machine before he gets nimda again.
"...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
Symantec seems to think differently than you as to how nimda spreads itself.
Of the 96 bugs filed so far today, about half are already marked DUPLICATE or INVALID... Of the rest, at least 2/3 will be marked so as well, it'll just take a few days.
So yes, that's 109 bug reports a day, most of which are useless.
You administer a network of this size, and you haven't heard of anti-virus software?
Really, everybody knows Mcafee and Norton/Symantec, but F-prot blows these out of the water.
It's current.
It's fast (you can run on a P-200 and still have a usable computer!)
It's cheap. ($2/workstation, $300/server)
It runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, AIX, DOS, etc.
We use it on our Linux mail servers with excellent results as a free service to our clients.
-Ben
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
However, if you can consistantly reproduce this, report it to Bugzilla, where it has a far better chance of getting fixed than on Slashdot.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
"I love how Netscape, since they own the rights to the Mozilla code, uses it directly for their browser"
Netscape doesn't "own the rights to the Mozilla code". They are the copyright holder to some of it. But so are scores of people not employed by Netscape. Mozilla is available under the terms of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL and that means that anyone can use and modify the code and the kind of ownership you're suggesting just doesn't exist or doesn't matter.
--Asa