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Mozilla 1.7.5 Released
shokk writes "Mozilla 1.7.5 is out for all platforms. See the changelog for more details. Quite a few bug fixes are in this. A number of the bugs are Firefox/Mozilla specific, so you can expect that these will be avilable in the upcoming Firefox 1.1 Deer Park (that's good browser!) release. Is the Mozilla suite no longer at the forefront of browser technology, long surpassed by Firefox and Thunderbird? Will we ever see a Mozilla suite composed of Firefox and Thunderbird to keep it all simple? What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?"
Nearly all of the 1.7.5 Mozilla Suite fixes are in Firefox 1.0. Firefox 1.0's code is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0. This is a small upgrade for Mozilla 1.7 to reach Firefox 1.0 parity. Firefox v1.1 will be based on Mozilla 1.8 (currently at 1.8 alpha 5), and Mozilla 1.8 should be released first. I wouldn't say either one is ahead in terms of technology, since they share so much.
Whether we'll one day have a suite of applications replace the actual suite seems to vary month to month and depends on who you ask. Personally, I would've liked that as a goal for Mozilla's 2.0 release.
PS: Mozilla 1.8/Firefox 1.1 should have the new user stylesheet code to support a color override for it.slashdot.org!
Right click on a toolbar in Firefox, and you can add/remove/re-arrange all you want. Don't want a search? Remove it. Don't want a Forward button? Gone. Ctrl-L still takes you to the address bar, and you could easy set up bookmark keywords for your searches that way.
In Mozilla, I just hit Ctrl-L, type my search commands, hit up arrow and enter. I haven't found any way of achieving the same thing in Firefox,
Hit ctrl-k, enter search terms, hit enter.
and I hate the small size of the box I'm given to enter my search terms.
Can't help you there.
In Mozilla, I just hit Ctrl-L, type my search commands, hit up arrow and enter. I haven't found any way of achieving the same thing in Firefox
:)
Without using Mozilla, it is hard to know exactly what you mean and what happens when you use up arrow, but I think it can be acheived - I don't use the search box at all, instead I use a combination of:
1. about:config -> keyword.URL set to http://www.google.com/search?oe=UTF-8&q= instead of the default (not very intiutive no), which causes Firefox to search on Google with anything entered that doesn't look like an URL, which is anything that hasn't got a dot embedded in the first word I think(?).
2. Keywords on bookmarks, making it possible to search wikipedia with "wp search terms", CPAN: "cpan search terms" and so on. Look in the Quick Searches folder for examples. I suppose Mozilla has this too, though.
Maybe that helps, that is, if you do want to try a switch.
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Thunderbird 1.0 will read a local mbox file. Setup a "movemail" account instead of an "Email" account. I had to fix some permissions so Thuderbird could write the .lock file, but other than that, it's working fine.
Then read the rest of what I wrote. Setup up bookmarks with keywords for the searches you want. For example, to search PHP's manual I have a bookmark with:
K eyword: phpman
/.
Location: http://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=%s
Then, if I type "phpman array" in the location bar, it does a search of the manual and takes me there. I also have one for Slashdot like:
Location: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=%s
Keyword:
Then I type "/. something" which Slashdot probably won't find, but that's not really Firefox's fault.
You can get Nvu.
1. I, along with a bunch of other people, funded a developer to add roaming profile support. It's in the 1.8alpha builds but AFAIK hasn't made it into Firefox yet. Roaming profiles was a huge loss for me when I stopped using Netscape 4. I'm glad to have it back and I'm glad that open source allowed me to do something about it rather than just sit around and complain about it being gone.
2. The new Google Groups displays messages in a proportional font and doesn't have a setting to display it in monospace. This really screws up messages that are meant to be monospaced such as source code. Google has some kind of algorithm that attempts to see if the line should be monospaced but it works poorly and shows a mixture of proportional and monospaced lines in some messages. That can make things more difficult to read.
As of Mozilla 1.8a3 I can limit stylesheets to a specific web site which allows me to fix my google groups problem. The following code in my chrome/userContent.css file lets me show google groups messages in monospace:
Right now the Mozilla trunk is where the action is for new features. Eventually new development will focus on Firefox, at which point I'll probably switch over. Until then, there are new features that I need and those needs aren't being met in Firefox (yet).
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
"1.7.4 was reserved for any neccessary security update before the bigger 1.7.5 update."
1 -26-21
http://mozillanews.org/?article_date=2004-11-24+2
It's the third component to the seperated suite, financed by the Lindows team. Currently sitting at 0.60, it's looking better and better all the time.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
There is also an [unfortunately hidden] option called accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly. Setting this to true does exactly what you want.
Works for me...
I agree. This was actually one of the main reasons I stuck with Mozilla up until the 1.0 release of Firefox. For me, now, the positives outweigh this negative, but it is still a little disheartening to see an almost inconsistent and non-intuitive Options window...
Tools -> Options... -> Advanced -> Tabbed Browsing -> Open links from other applications in: (*) a new tab in the most recent window.
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
Ad 1. The default button order on Linux is Gnome-ish, since Firefox is a GTK 2 app, and as such wants to conform to Gnome Human Interface Guidelines, which specify the button order. If you want the KDEish/Windowsish button order (OK|Cancel) on Linux (or Mac), just put this in your userChrome.css: .dialog-button-box { -moz-box-direction: reverse; -moz-box-pack: right; }
and stop complaining. :)
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So why don't you remove the Google search box by right clicking on it, selecting Customize and pulling it into the window? And then, you can make Firefox location bar act like Mozilla's, just set keyword.URL in about:config to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=
(The search box is much better, though, you just have to use it a few times ;))
Now, you have no reasons not to switch. :-)
I've always used this method, and it seems to work for me.
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In user.js, add this line:
user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=")
I think movemail support is on Unix systems only... if you are on another platform it is not available.
Here's what I do on Windows to read the mbox-format archives I have lying around from previous Unix accounts:
1. Create a new folder within Local Folders.
2. Locate the new folder within your Moz/TB profile on disk, usually in C:\Documents and Settings\blahblah...
3. Delete the folder message file (zero bytes). Don't delete the foldername.msf index file.
4. Copy the mbox-format file to this location using the name of the new folder (i.e., replace the 0-byte initial file with your mbox file).
5. Click on the folder in Moz/TB - there are all the messages!
You may need to restart the Moz/TB client or click on some other folder and then back to your new one in order to see the message list.
I've been doing this for years since early Moz 0.9.something, and it's worked great.
I've never tried this on a live mail spool file that has new emails being added to it - only with static archives. I doubt it would work smoothly on live mail spool. But then, if you have a mbox spool file you're likely on a Unix box anyway and can use the movemail acocunt type.