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Firefox Plans Mass Marketing Drive
Ivan Mark writes "Christopher Beard, the VP of products at Mozilla Corporation, told ZDNet UK on Monday that there is a 'strong likelihood' that Firefox 1.5, the next major version of the open source browser, will be released on 29 November. Beard said they are planning a 'big marketing push.'
'You will have real people telling you about Firefox's features-- what's cool and great,' said Beard. 'People can create the video and upload it to the Mozilla site. The video will then be reviewed and put on our Web site, with a link from their location.'"
Unofficial changelogs for Firefox releases
I hate it to restart with all those tabs open.
Get SessionSaver.
It will restore your open tabs on startup or after a crash. It is also great for when one of the plugins (flash, java, or maybe just Firefox itself) makes the browser slow down over time; after a lot of usage you can just close it and reopen Firefox -- with all your tabs but a fresh start on memory usage. This extension has almost entirely eliminated the need for bookmarks for me too.
The Firemonger project is also boasting a lot of new features when it releases its FireFox & Thunderbird bundle. Just have a look at the cool new screenshots.
1.5 isn't out yet - you, like me, are using an RC. Many extension authors are lazy and will only update their extensions after 1.5 is *really* released.
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Try mplayer-plugin (known on ubuntu as mozilla-mplayer), and the win32-codecs package. The site you point out works perfectly on my system if I choose windows media (mplayer-plugin) or realplayer (realplayer 10 for linux). As does Apple's trailers site (presently otherwise viewable only with quicktime 7) and a bunch of other stuff -- in fact, everything I've tried except some VRML stuff.
But from a purely browsing experience, I no longer think Firefox is the best open-source browser -- konqueror in kde 3.5 hasn't failed me on a site yet. The collaboration with Apple clearly helped...
The main reason I use Firefox on my Mac over the otherwise pretty good Safari is the adblocker plugin. Not having crap blink in my face on every second site, not having a little bit of text squeezed in between fat columns of ads for stuff I simply don't want, let alone need, has really changed my attitude towards the web in general. There is no way I am ever going back to a browser that doesn't support this feature. If you are thinking about testing Firefox -- get that plugin when you do.
And yet... We're up to 14% already.
Anyway. What are your reasons for saying that?
fwiw, they've fixed an issue with the removal of plugins crashing ff. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31602 5#c6
appears to have been a popular issue.
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If you can view adbanners, you can nab a virus/malware/spyware via a web-browser program!
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Yes, believe-it-or-not, it's been known to happen & was even reported here on slashdot in the past quite a few times the last 2-3 years now.
See here for more potential vulnerabilities found in FireFox in the past, & also its plugins, such as the "greasemonkey" one that made 'big headlines' in the past, e.g.'s:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16911/
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/07/19/143241.shtml?t
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1838261,00.a
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/12/mozilla_i
(And, there are others, those are just examples... as well as the initial point I made about adbanners having been shown to harbor malware/spyware inserts into your OS as well in the past 2-3 years now a few times already).
Sure, many of them have been patched (as far as internal-to-FireFox code itself), but what about those plugins as well?
(I'd say, it's a GOOD bet that more will popup in the browser extensions FireFox has available for it, unfortunately... part of the "growing pains" of this browser, and a note about the 'danger' of 3rd party extensibility tools. ActiveX didn't come out as planned for IE either, so-to-speak, security-wise outside of Intranet usage & then probably not 110% totally safe either).
APK
P.S.=> Personally, though I think FireFox is excellent work & has come a LONG ways (since "FireBird" etc. builds of it), Opera 8.51 is my web-browser choice, since Opera's typically been shown to be faster:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#wi
And, also it seems that Opera has always been less subject to online vulnerability vs. BOTH FireFox &/or IE, period, as well as being consistently a faster/better performer year in & year out... apk
Turns out there's a great answer:
From http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archives/2005/10 /beta2_candidate_builds_availab.html
This is done by:1. Open new tab.
2. Go to "about:config".
3. Right-click, select New, Boolean.
4. Type the variable name, "config.trim_on_minimize", hit Enter.
5. Type "false", hit Enter.
6. Exit and restart Mozilla.
Now it won't free memory when it minimizes, which it generally takes 30-60 seconds (sometimes longer!) to restore when the user clicks on the task bar icon to bring it back up.
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Youre wrong! Opera doesnt have ads anymore.
It's been 100% free and Ad free since version 8.5
For me its just 1 annoying thing about it, it doesnt support rich text editing.
It will in version 9, but thats not coming before Christmas..
In the (rare) occasions in which Firefox crashed on my Mac, Session Saver was a great helping hand (I don't use its automatic restore for every startup, just for browser crashes).
Don't know whether it restores data such as server-session-id cookies (which would be needed to salvage this insurance app incident, for example), but having such an option available as a plugin is what made me stick to Firefox in both Windows and Mac OS X.
1) being worked on (GRE runtime)
2) Firefox 1.5 supports incremental updates
3) name it
4) You don't have to. Mozilla keeps maintaining the suite (1.7), the Seamonkey project keeps improving the suite.
5) Multitasking.
In konqueror, if the flash plugin freezes up, you can kill it and continue browsing the page, just without flash functionality.
It's faster.
Go to any page with 100+ image on it. Click on an image to view it, and then click Firefox's back button. You're back in an instant to the page w/100+ images.
Try the same experiment w/Firefox 1.0.x. It's sloooooooooow returning to the previous page.
Also, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) support is turned on in 1.5. Send someone to http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples w/Firefox 1.5. All the images there are vector based, and several are dynamic (click around). Check out 'XBL Shapes' near the bottom. Very cool! And SVG is a native implementation in Firefox, so you don't have have that wretched browser after thought feeling that Flash gives. Personally, I've been waiting ~2 years for SVG support to be turned on in Mozilla/Firefox. Expect to see a slew of cool SVG sites popping up in the next 6 months!
I could go on...
Well, there is nothing wrong with your css, it should work fine.
This is a incremental reflow bug in Mozilla, see:
http://wargers.org/mozilla/test/renderr.html
This uses a javascript hack to trigger the bug, compare it with javascript turned off.
You can easily circumvent this bug in Mozilla's rendering by instead of using this:
div.center > div {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
display: table;
}
use this:
div.center > div {
text-align: center;
}
See here: http://wargers.org/mozilla/test/renderr2.html
This is probably already a known bug of Mozilla.
That's bug 45375. Fixing it correctly (so tooltips not only aren't truncated, but wrap when they need to) apparently requires a scary change to XUL layout, which is the main reason it hasn't been fixed yet. It looks to me like it will be fixed in Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3).
I think there are extensions you can use so you'll see a different kind of tooltip that doesn't suffer from the bug.
The shareholder is always right.
Check out FirefoxADM: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm
and the firefox msi packages: http://msi-repository.sourceforge.net/
I think this is a really good reason not to use IE
The fact that gaping vulnerabilities like these are found in a closed source browser like IE all the time and yet remain unpatched is one of the most convincing arguments to lead people away from IE.