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After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn
MikeCapone writes "Slashdot had an article about the GNOME bounties a few days ago, but now, thanks to the Shuttleworth Foundation (created by Mark Shuttleworth, the guy who went into the ISS as a Soyuz cosmonaut a couple of years ago), the Mozilla project also has some monetary incentives. The budget for 2004 is USD$100,000."
RTFA. He is also giving rewards to other projects.
There already is such a monster. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
There's no place like ~/
The requested functionality is already done - as part of Tabbrowser extensions... here
Already been done in a plugin called Tabbrowser Extensions:_ tabextensions .html.en#download
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/
It has MUCH more than that feature. It pretty much has anything you'd ever need from tabs.
^_^
One of the great things about getting the comunity to participate is that after they accept a patch you made you'll feel like you're part of the whole construction and you'll probably continue contributing. With contractors, this almost never happens.
Just installed it. It has some great tab functionality - I'll enjoy using it. However it does not work on hotmail.
Hotmail uses JS to open the mail in the same window. If it opened into a new window, tabbrowser would be able to handle it. I probably should have been more descriptive in its horrible use of javascript.
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
By default, Mozilla Firebird displays annoying error messages if a connection fails, instead of quitely displaying the error information in the browser window as Internet Explorer does. To turn off the error messages and use pages instead, add the following code to your user.js file: // Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages:d ", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enable
You can access your user.js file by typing about:config in your search box, assuming you're running Firebird [may work for the moz, not sure].
I've only developed one open source application, but I've contributed about 10x that much code to existing projects.
Without small time contributers, it's really not an open source project.
Yes it happened, it doesn't happen any more.
It hasn't happened since IE4.
People regularly claim that it is still happening, as you just did. That has been disproved. I did it with my own eyes.
I live in a giant bucket.
I had that extension installed on my box (Gentoo for those that care)... It caused Firebird to slow down considerably... Closing a window took 5 secs.. Switching tabs took several seconds.. Not fun.. As soon as I disabled that extension, everything was nice and fast again...
I liked the extension and what it did, but damn it slowed everything down..
Slashdot is like Playboy: I read it for the articles
Overheads and contractor rates means that with $100K you'll be lucky to be able to hire one decent contractor for that little money.
I like the popup ad blocking feature, why can't IE offer this is well? What's wrong with those idiots at Microsoft?
Most of the bounty cash will probably end up going to SchoolTool development. SchoolTool is a Python-based school administration application, primarily for schools in the developing world. Steve Alexander, a leading Zope developer, is currently leading the work with his team in Lithuania. The server is based on Zope 3 code and the Twisted framework. It'll feature a REST web service interface. Hopefully, this will provide a relatively simple, robust and clean platform to allow schools to manage their data with a minimum of up-front expense and administrative burden.
Try opensourcexperts.com. They do exactly what you were talking about.
WeRelate.org - wiki-based genealogy
Thanks for the link. Bugzilla says:
Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: WONTFIX
Which is perfectly sensible, given how complicated this would be. This is not really going to be implemented through the bug tracking system. It's a big idea that requires a big name/organization/company to adopt it. And this will only happen if the idea gets traction (and a lot of discussion) at the grassroots.
Imposing Libertarian views on everyone online since 1992.
You know, this comment is an insult to all the work that has been happening over the last 6 months. Not all that much has been "free floating" as you put it; many of the core modules were either already owned by non-Netscape people or are still owned by people working on Mozilla (though no longer as Netscape employees).
I suggest taking a look at the actual CVS checkin logs next time before making statements like that.
1) Download and Install Tab Extension and restart Mozilla.
2) In TabBrowser Extension Options change two settings: a) in 'Advanced', tick 'New windows opened by JavaScript' and b) in 'Focus', tick Javascript in 'load new tab in background when it is opened by'
3) In Booksmarks > Manage Bookmarks: create a new Bookmark. In the Location type: javascript: function G(UL) { window.open(UL,'_blank',''); } stick it in your Bookmarks Toolbar for easy reuse.
4) open Hotmail and go to your Inbox
5) click that Bookmark you just created (this will replace hotmail's function with your own)
6) click on messages - they should now open in the background in a new tab.
enjoy
As a better suggestion, I wrote a webmail client for ourbrisbane.com which is free sign-up to (5MB storage), W3C compliant (IE and Mozilla), has a good spam filter, and has a preview pane, right-click contextual menus, drag-drop, background-mail checking, folder export (as zip), select and ctrl-click, short-cut keys, searchable list filtering, etc, etc.
However it does not work on hotmail.
Sure it does, use the "Lock Tab" feature. Turn it on, and then bookmark hotmail, from now on all links in hotmail will open in a new tab... including javascript ones.