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The Firemonger Project
IZ Reloaded writes "The Firemonger Project is an attempt to create a multilingual easy-to-use compilation CD with Firefox, Thunderbird and an excellent selection of plugins (Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Shockwave and Sun Java), extensions (Adblock, Googlebar, Hotmail tabs, SessionSaver,
ScrapBook and more), Firefox and Thunderbird themes, related programs (Firetune and Backupfox) and a comprehensive beginner's guide. Everything you need to start up with and get the most out of Firefox and Thunderbird. There's also a lite version for download."
no linux distribution on earth includes those plugins, how are they getting away with it?
why don't the linux distro makers adopt their strategy?
You mean to tell me that this has never been covered before on Slashdot? Are you kidding?
Or am I just being naive? I guess the slogan is true - Slashdot. The News 24 Hours After Everyone Else Or Your Money Back!
As an aside - why not mention Portable Firefox or FFDeploy? They fit the same category of spreading firefox.
"MY APOCALYPTIC TENOR HAS NOT BEEN DISPELLED!" - T-Rex, qwantz.com
they should already have internet connection, in which case there should be no reason for making this on a CD unless I am missing something.
The idea behind this is to encourage more people to use Firefox. Giving a CD with everything needed is preferable to sending a link to certain friends/family because a CD sitting on your desk is a constant reminder to install Firefox. Also, some people don't think software is real unless they're given real media to install it with. Why does AOL go to all the expense to send out their CDs? Because it's more effective to get people to install it than many other techniques (giving out a phone number or link for instance).
I'm a big tall mofo.
Although Firefox is meant to be liteweight, there are some people on this planet that don't use it because it is too lightweight. Enter my grandparents. Old Chinese folk with no knowledge of computers. They don't know how to download extentions, definitely don't know how to download and install Thunderbird. Suites like this make their life easier. My life will be eased as well because I won't have to tell them how to download everything over the phone.
This is a great piece of software.
There is still a lot of features lacking in Thunderbird, partly because I do not see many people incorporating other GPL software into it (are there still licensing issues, or is it fully GPL/LGPL now?).
Things that Thunderbird lacks is:
*Any type of attachment based filters (if it has an attachment, size, etc.). For fuck sakes, even outlook *express* has attachment based filters.
*Auto compacting of folders. When you delete something it really isn't deleted and your folders can grow to huge sizes unless it is 'compacted'.
*Auto expirary of mail. Kmail has it (http://kmail.kde.org/features.html) why not Thunderbird?
*A lot more, just look at some features that have been requested over the past few *years*.
A little less self congradulations, especially with regards to Thunderbird, is in order I think.
Modem connections? They're still around, and it's a pain in the derriere to download Firefox, plus extensions, plus thunderbird.
All on one CD, chuck it in the drive and go. Much better solution.
AdBlock represents a possible problem as it hasn't been updated in quite a while and in its current iteration doesn't work with Firefox 1.5.
There is a spin-off project called AdBlockPlus which would make a more logical choice.
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
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Thunderbird supports auto-compacting of folders and has for several releases now. It's an option, unticked by default, in the Options panel.
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
No, the reason is that if you get the Firemonger CD and you don't install FF or TB, it'll catch fire.
In your computer.
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All the automated translation efforts "yo mamma, sup, homey, you mammo dogface to the bananapathch?" need to be based on local lingo.
I speak fairly good French, but translating this to something that could be understood by a second-language French learner is quite the challenge.
But that's OK, because the language is always devolving and marketing is our friend.
I don't know of any free software operating system that includes only software licensed under the GNU GPL. Which free software operating system does this? Not even the GNU Project advocates for distributing only GPL-covered software. Part of GNU is made up of software licensed under the MIT X11, new BSD, and other free software licenses.
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Hey this is Daniel, one of the origional helpers in the Firemonger project. If you would like to see some stats on hits.....heres a link!p hp?project_id=444253&guest=1
http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.
Honestly, if they're going to put together a compilation of Firefox extensions, they might want to choose good ones that don't add bloat.
Tabbrowser Extensions is NOT recommended by the MozDev team. I've used it, and I've actually noticed that it slowed down my browser. This isn't a thing where I got a timer and timed it. This is a thing where I sat there thinking "wow, am I really on cable?"
Next thing you know, people are going to install this package and come to the Firefox team complaining how slow Firefox is.
The alternative: Tab Mix Plus
I personally prefer FFDeploy (http://home.comcast.net/~ifrit/FFDeploy.html), even though it hasn't been updated in months, I believe it still works. It allows you to pick your own extensions and settings, and it's easy enough to burn them to a CD.
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