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Spaceman40 sent in this ZDNet story. PeterPumpkin collects way too many links to Firefox stories: "According to SpreadFirefox.com , there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day. There are news bites coming out about Firefox everywhere you could possibly imagine. According to a report on MozillaZine, Denmark's largest television channel, TV2, reported on the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. PC-WELT, the German equivalent of PC-World, is distributing their own customised version of Firefox to customers." Thomas Hawk writes "Rather than go outside for the past 48 hours, Scott Granneman prefers to burrow in his den and come up with one of the first definitive lists of Firefox links. Good geeking Scott. And way to overcompensate."
Love him or hate him, he spent about 10-15 minutes on his radio show Sunday night discussing Firefox. He said he was an Opera user himself (sick of spyware) but praised Firefox for challenging Microsoft and breaking their stranglehold on the web.
The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro also gave an incredibly positive review to Firefox and took part in a web chat about it (good read if you want to see less techy user's reactions).
Too bad Slashdot doesn't render right in Firefox...
Just install the Slashfix extension until v1.1.
The german version of Firefox 1.0 contains spyware in the ebay-plugin. Search queries are redirected to a data-mining corporation in switzerland.
more about in german in:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/53308
Denmark's largest television channel, TV2, reported on the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.
The clip should be available from http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/5567.
Erm...when was the last time you used Firefox? 0.7? 0.3?
It improved. A lot. I can't think of anybody besides you that went back after trying it.
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I REALLY hope that this spurs development of XUL based applications. There are'nt that many yet, but I'd love to see more. (trying to learn myself)
Example of XUL app is the amazon.com content browser
http://www.faser.net/mab/remote.cfm
Of course you MUST use Mozilla/Firefox to view it!
instructions for the creating new plugins can be found here: mozdev
Calm down people, its a religion not an operating system.
SpellBound seems to work pretty well.
Five bucks a year for a browser that is fast, small, secure, has tabbed browsing, awesome bookmark management, integrated kickass email, popup blocking, etcetera endless freakin' etcetera.
Oh yeah, and weird HTML rendering (until very recently) and a funky interface (even now).
Yeah, it's pretty sweet actually. You just need to edit your prefs.js file to tell it which sites to provide NTLM credentials to. No "friendly" interface for doing this yet though I don't think (or maybe I just missed it).
a tion-uris" , "http://,https://");e -auth.trusted-uris", "http://,https://");
Something like this (not that I'm recommending this as a good config), will allow the creds to be sent to all web servers:
user_pref("network.negotiate-auth.deleg
user_pref("network.negotiat
If you use a proxy server, it's probably not *too* unsafe, since NTLM can't really be proxied via HTTP proxies anyway (AFAIK).
Funny, as has been pointed out many times and the other replier pointed out, MS is already advertising on their site the tabbed browsing features that Longhorn will have. So your explanation is rather hard to swallow.
Microsoft is claming IE users don't want tabbed browsing. hmf.
Its true I have computer ignorant friends who say they really DON'T need tabs, but then they've never tried them.
Microsoft is also claming it is no more buggy than Firefox...
And here I've been sending these lies to all my friends:
http://secunia.com/product/4227/Firefox Browser 0.1 - 2 unpached problems, 17 total security flaws.
http://secunia.com/product/761/Opera Browser 7 - 1 unpached problems 29 total security flaws.
http://secunia.com/product/11/ Internet Explorer 6 - 17 unpached problems 67 total security flaws.
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I'm a long term Mozilla User, tried Firefox 1.0 and it still seems to crash more than M.
I still don't see the point of giving up Mozilla and focusing on Firefox instead.
Firefox is faster? I don't think so; at least on my machine rendering and start-up times are nearly equal.
Size of binary? Firefox + Thunderbird = 10.5 MB (windows). Mozilla is 11MB and has a simple HTML Browser + IRC Chat included. I don't see the improvement.
I will stick to Mozilla for sure...
They have a Microsoft's worst nightmare article in the last edition.
Soon. It will be in Mozilla/Firefox soon. Linspire got someone to program it.
Last sunday a big Israeli newspaper - "Yedihot" (AKA ynet on web) published a 3 page article (!!!) about Firefox. I was amazed (in a good kind of way) to see a HUGE FireFox logo in the newspaper I read every day.
Online version available here (Hebrew content).
If the whole system crashes it is probably a bug in the mouse driver, or in display driver. Firefox only runs in userspace, and shouldn't be able to crash the whole OS - well, at least not unless you still run the Win 98/Me -line OSes, where the kernel memory is not completely protected from userspace violations.
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Go to "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins" and look at the .src files.
Assuming your intranet has a search engine that uses a format similar to one of the existing ones, just crib from it.
For example, my client's uses the format:
http://www.blah.blah/blah?keyword=value.
You can crib from google.src and you should be okay.
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1) Slow compared to Mozilla - requires the use of the moox optimized builds. I just built myself a new(ish) machine last night, though, so the extra CPU speed may make this a moot point for me, but the 550mHz Pentium III I was using was definitely not an optimal platform for Firefox.
Slow compared to Mozilla? I'm using it in Windows XP on an AMD (3000+) run eMachines... and it is faster than IE! It loads faster, renders pages faster and generally is the fastest application on my PC.
2) Buggy when lots of tabs are opened - more so than Mozilla. I'd say it crashes around 2x-3x more often than Mozilla. Being careful about how many tabs are open minimizes this, but still - annoying.
Firefox crashes? Again, even in Windows I've only had Firefox "lock up" twice in about six months. Once was loading a page which was created to spread MyDoom (I guess that the string locked up the browser?). In Mandrake and Fedora I've never had Firefox crash. Even still, I regularly use and update to nightly builds so I would expect it to crash but it never happens.
2) Buggy when lots of tabs are opened - more so than Mozilla. I'd say it crashes around 2x-3x more often than Mozilla. Being careful about how many tabs are open minimizes this, but still - annoying.
Yes, a problem in the past (like 0.8 builds) - but not so much anymore. I've had in the upwards of 50 tabs open at once and it never really caused a problem. Yes, they are hard to discern after about 20 are opened, but CTRL+PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN is good for switching between tabs quickly.
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It's not slashcode, it's an incremental rendering problem in firefox - AIUI, the rendering engine is rounding the column width each time it renders the page again, which is every time it gets more data, and the errors add up to make it misaligned. That's why the bug only appears on lower bandwidth connections, and hence didn't get fixed by the mozilla devs for a while. It is fixed in mozilla trunk, which I think will become firefox 1.1 eventually.
I am trolling
Uh? Works for me... Did you uninstall any previous versions before installing 1.0? Installing over an old copy still causes strange glitches, I've found.
My username does not make me Apathetic. It's irony, get it?
Get the "Tab X" extension. That will give you the "close tab" button in each individual tab. I'm sure there is a switch tab key also, but I can't tell you what it is...
I didn't even know that cryptographic extension signatures _worked_ in Firefox 1.0!
And before you start flaming the Firefox developers over a change that seems rather unfair and ill-timed to you, keep in mind that no matter how stable Firefox was before the 1.0 release, it was beta software. Beta software can be modified at the drop of a hat.
Ergo, you should have at least planned for the possibility that something might change in the 1.0 release, ESPECIALLY if you are actually offering production-level software to people.
Finally, if you are having problems with the Firefox Signtool team (whoever they are), then you should try other avenues of assistance, like the MozillaZine Forums - if you got a "figure it out yourself dumbass"-type response there, I'd be shocked.
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Because the rendering engine changes needed to fix the bugs created by the god-awful HTML 3.2 emanated by Slashdot's template code were too invasive and "scary" for the Aviary branch. Introducing them could have cuased massive regressions and other problems.
Firefox 1.1 will not break Slashdot anymore. Why the templates haven't been fixed is anybody's guess...
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Just so you know the other guy is wrong! :)
Mozilla/firefox etc guess sizes for columns that have images in them, these column sizes change once the image actually arrives. In certain cases it doesn't refresh and rerender once the images are downloaded.
There is suppositivly a fix in the mozilla trunk, but it wasn't put in firefox 1.0 because it caused some pages that previously rendered fine to render badly. So fix is waiting on perfection.
Denmark's largest television channel, TV2, reported on the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.
Am I the only Dane who noticed that the Danish public service channel DR had a news spot about Firefox too?
In fact, shortly after 1.0PR they even added the appropriate RSS-link info to the news section on their site, so people can easily create Live Bookmarks, with just a few mouse clicks.
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It seems that, for the most part, different teams work on the two projects, although there appears to be a lot of communication between the two. There is no reason to speculate that either project will end in the foreseeable future. In fact, there have been statements from the Mozilla Foundation indicating that both projects will continue, with Firefox dipping into Mozilla Seamonkey code when appropriate and vice-versa.
(Score: -1, Stupid)
If I've interpreted your reference to alt text correctly, FF and Mozilla are doing the correct thing; tooltips for the alt attribute are an IEism. The proper way to get the same effect is to use title=""; alt is for alternative text to be displayed if the image isn't displayed.
I am no native english speaker, but here is my attempt at an translation:
k er_qry_de.pl"
Firefox user realized, that while using the ebay search function of the browser, ebay wasnt contacted directly, but a website in switzerland. Instead of opening the ebay search-site at: http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll firefox redirects the requests to the address on the server www.webtip.ch.
Affected is the german edition of the browser, the win32 as well as the linux version. In the meantime emotions boiled up due to the assumed espionage.
The domain belongs to the metaspinner ltd. After being questioned by heise online, Christoph Berndt CEO of Metaspinner explained, that the redirection is based on a partner contract between mozilla and ebay and is tested at the moment. The earnings of the deal, of which Berndt knew no details, are supposed to be given to the Mozilla Foundation. Metaspinner Ltd is just providing the server for the Mozilla Foundation. Berndt emphasized, that his corporation is not logging requests or ip-addresses.
In the meantime Axel Hecht from the Mozilla Foundation as well as Abdulkadir Topal, who maintains the german version of firefox spoke up. The Foundation needs money, to pay for example the hired developers. And: "Mozilla.org or mozilla-europe receive no information conceirning the data, the user enters in the search-bar (This can be checked by anyone due to open-source)".
Who prefers to communicate with ebay directly, can just replace the following line in the ebay search plugin ebay.src:
action="http://www.webtip.ch/cgi-bin/mozilla/trac
with
action="http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll"
and restart firefox. The search-plugin is contained in the directory searchplugins of the Firefox programm directory.
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Hard-line Islamist??? You do know that Al-Jazeera was formed off a branch of the BBC News division that eventually detached itself from BBC and became independent. Not sure how a BBC division manages to become hard-line islamist (although I'm sure some troll will reply to tell me how it is...)
> Similarly, system widgets aren't used even for in-page items like radio buttons,
> checkboxes, buttons, text fields. I cannot fathom the hubris that makes the Mozilla
> developers feel that their application is so uniquely important that it
> deserves to look different than every other application on my system.
FYI, I heard the explanation for this some time ago in #mozilla: no system widgets exist that would allow mozilla/firefox to implement the CSS specification(s).
There is a small Firefox extension called SlashFix, which takes care of this problem. It's a hack, but it works. :) Good enough till 1.1 comes out...
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The FireFox signtool team has been extremely unhelpful so far. Their responses have been of the "Figure it out yourself, dumbass" type.
Who works on signtool? I want to know so I can reassign some documentation I no longer maintain.
Our plugin won't run under FireFox 1.0 since the browser won't allow the user to install unsigned plugins.
Firefox allows users to install unsigned extensions.
The shareholder is always right.
now if only the plugins were updated ... or backwards compatible
Up until 1.0 they haven't cared about this. It was beta software, and anything and all could be changed. Things would break, if it meant the final (1.0) product would be better. Now that we have 1.0, things designed for it won't just break, and we will have backwards compatibility.