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After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn

Posted by timothy on from the cheap-labor dept.

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."

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  1. Re:My Mozilla bounty by jaywee · · Score: 5, Informative

    The requested functionality is already done - as part of Tabbrowser extensions... here

  2. Re:My Mozilla bounty by SeanTobin · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
  3. Re:Mozilla Question by Ieshan · · Score: 5, Informative

    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:
    user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled ", true);

    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].

  4. Cevelopers vs Contributers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    You right about the developers, but people always seem to forget the contributers. The people who track down bugs and sumbit fixes. People who add new functionallity. Many of these people have real jobs where they used open source and need these fixes, so they do it.

    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.

  5. Hotmail Working Solution by Jotham · · Score: 3, Informative
    ok, I have a complete solution for you...

    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.