On installing the beta, I found that it'll import settings & bookmarks from:
MSIE Netscape 8 Netscape 6/7/Mozilla 1.x Netscape 4.x Opera
I'm impressed that it'll import from Opera. But I'm astonished that it won't import from the second-most-used browser out there -- the one with which it shares the most code! Guess users are stuck with exporting the bookmarks from Firefox and then importing them from the file.
I certainly hope this is on the buglist to get fixed before the final release.
Believe it or not, at one point AOL actually had a low-cost connection service that they branded as "Netscape." They were convinced that they should be able to get something out of the brand name, even if they were practically ignoring the browser and didn't own the server (IIRC, Netscape sold their server division to Sun before AOL bought them), so they were slapping it on anything they could think of.
I wonder if Netscape still have the brand power to draw in old skool internet users to use their product once again if it turns out to be a good alternative to IE/FF/Opera/etc...
I would guess not. Firefox has managed to build up a highly recognizable name, and probably has a bigger following in raw numbers than Netscape did back in its heyday, considering how many more people are on the internet than there were 10 years ago. (Just remember, 78.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.)
On the other hand, if Firefox were to really screw up, I can see an opportunity for Netscape to step in and win back some of its former glory. Though to be honest, at this point if Firefox were to fade, I'd rather see Opera than Netscape. Get some more rendering engines into the mix, get "designers" out of this two-browser mindset.
JWZ, of original Netscape, famously referred to AOL's continual efforts to slap the "Netscape" name on something, anything -- a browser variant, a portal, a low-cost internet connection, whatever -- as "brand necrophilia".
One way to work around this would be to disallow HTML in the embedded content and use another markup language instead, such as BBCode or WikiCode. Then the host site will convert the BBCode to HTML, and can pick and choose exactly which tags it will allow.
@ is based on the letter 'a', so f@ck is pronounced 'fack'
In other words, it's just a misspelling of FAQ, and everyone knows what a FAQ is. What's obscene about that? I mean, every FAQing site on the internet is full of FAQers telling people to Read the FAQing Manual.
I haven't looked at the exploits, but considering both browsers are affected, it makes me wonder if there is a common behavior or something implied in various web standards which led to this problem.
Nope. The exploits in Firefox and IE are completely separate -- just announced at the same time.
When are people going to wake-up to this bullshit? "Web apps" give you all the performance of regular apps running on an old 286, with half the features. Wow!
The point of web applications isn't performance, it's ubiquity. Hotmail (and remember, it was one of the first big web apps, even before Microsoft bought it) didn't take off because it performed better or had more features than Eudora, Outlook, Netscape or Pegasus -- it took off because you didn't need to install it and you could access it from any computer with an Internet connection and a web browser.
Is it just me, or are the more humorous / inane tags showing up less? "duh" "haha" "itsatrap" and friends. Is this because the slashdot editors changed something, or because people are using them less?
My first reaction was that people had gotten bored with the joke tags. This is the internet, after all, and internet fads fade with time just as the real-world ones do -- faster, even.
Then I remembered that a few days ago I saw people commenting on pouring hot grits down pants, and petrified Natalie Portman (though admittedly this was a Star Wars thread), and realized that on Slashdot, old jokes don't fade away.
One might even say, in Soviet Slashdot, old memes forget you!
You can assume that any vulnerability in Firefox that's in the rendering engine will also work in any other browser built with that version of Gecko. That includes corresponding versions of Flock, SeaMonkey, and probably even K-Meleon and Camino (depending on the original platform). You may have noticed a lot of Flock point releases include things like, "The 0.7.14 Flock Maintenance patch incorporates Mozilla's patch 1.5.0.12."
Now, vulnerabilities in the UI -- say the pop-up blocking system -- could be specific to Firefox, but Flock shares a lot of the UI with Firefox, so there's a good chance that it relies on common code and will still be vulnerable. IIRC Flock 0.8 is based on Firefox 1.5, so if this exploit requires Firefox 2, it's probably OK -- unless you're one of the lucky users testing Flock 0.9.
I've actually found Flash to be less stable lately. It's not uncommon for a couple of Flash ads to start chewing up all my CPU until I have a chance to close the tab.
I'm seriously considering backing down to Flash 7, despite the horrible audio sync problems with the Linux version.
It's a bit simplistic to assume that $browser will always keep you safe. On the other hand, it's important to remember that there are manyalternatives available. The good thing about this is that each engine has its own vulnerabilities, so for the same malware to target Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari, it would have to target four different exploits. At least with intended behavior of HTML/DOM/CSS, Gecko, Trident, etc. are (ostensibly) aiming at the same target.
Ever notice that the only vulnerabilities which are really cross-browser tend to be misuse of functionality (like the Unicode domain spoofing attacks a few years back), rather than exploits of bugs?
The instructions that are in place simply tell users to "list your interests, separated by commas..."
Right next to the box, it continues:
Short single-word phrases are best.
Rule of thumb: You should be able to put the interest in the sentence "I like ________".
When referring to nouns, use the plural form for consistency, e.g.: "I like DVDs" instead of "I like DVD".
I'm pretty sure those have been there for a while. Of course, they read as an example of how to format it so that people with the same interests are more likely to pick the same keywords.
I've been considering setting up a blog/homepage service whose whole raison d'etat is absolute freedom of speech. No terms and conditions. No censorship whatsoever. Does not keep IP records of posters or visitors. No takedowns without a court order, that kind of thing. Nothing like that exists as far as I know.
Your site would be overrun by spam. It might take a while for the spammers to catch on, but once they did, they would take aim with their botnets and flood you with advertisements for and links to pharmaceuticals of dubious quality, pornography of every sort of persuasion, get-rich-quick schemes, Nigerian scams, body enhancement products, phishing sites, malware of various sorts. And then there would be plain old vandalism of the "Lookit my name, u suk ha ha ha" variety.
Take it from someone who's run his own blog for 4.5 years, and leaves old comment threads open. The spammers are very persistent. My server blocks ~1200 POST attempts per week, plus dozens of comment spams make it past the first line to get caught by other methods.
Maybe you'd have some interesting discussions on there. But you'd need to have some way of at least sorting the wheat from the chaff.
Unless you want to create a haven for spammers, in which case you're not likely to find much help here.
As far as I can recall, there was no fan campaign to save Buffy after Season 5. I don't even remember hearing about it being "canceled." It just switched networks.
There was a campaign to save Angel after its last season, but it (obviously) didn't succeed.
No, now its crystal starts blinking red, and it has to either turn itself in for euthanasia or make a run for sanctuary and hope a Sandman doesn't catch it.
Not checking that site at work, but do they have a picture of the statue where she's holding a pike? 'Cause I don't think Lucas intended to make her look like a pole dancer.
Now Star Trek: TNG -- that is like Guiness. Great at any time! Always aged to perfection!
TNG came out not too long after Coca-Cola experimented with the disaster that was "New Coke." The original series and Next Gen were often compared to Coca-Cola Classic and New Coke. Around the time DS9 came out, I recall someone talking about "Classic Trek, New Trek, and Diet Cherry Trek."
A while back I was involved in a discussion on what soft drinks Voyager and Enterprise were. We came up with Voyager being store-brand soda, and Enterprise being carbonated water (i.e. bland), with Babylon 5 being Pepsi (for the intense Trek/B5 rivalry) and Farscape being Mountain Dew (since it's so vastly different.)
Yeah, but this is Slashdot. Few slashdotters are familiar with such esoteric concepts as girls. Fewer still are familiar with how girls are shaped.
Actually, I suspect more slashdotters are familiar with how girls are shaped (or at least a subset thereof) than they are with the concept of actual girls.
But SQLite is in Firefox 2.0 (and is already leveraged by extensions like Zotero). If Mozilla wanted to have the feature in the 2.x branch, I think they technically could (or, if a developer wanted to write an extension that allowed Firefox 2 to see both the old bookmarks and the new ones, there doesn't seem to be any critical impediments).
Places was originally in the 2.0 branch, but they dropped it during alpha testing. It just wasn't ready for prime time. (A number of alpha testers were annoyed that they had to export their bookmarks, then re-import them. Converting from the old structure to Places was, I think, automatic, but converting the other way hadn't been anticipated.) So they've had another year to work on it, and presumably they're confident that it's stable enough and fast enough now.
That's strange. I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.3 on a considerably slower box (single Athlon 1800, 1GB RAM), and scrolling speed is fine, whether dragging the scrollbar, using the mouse wheel, etc. I suppose it could be an OS-dependent bug (I'm running Linux, not BSD), or optimizations in the official binaries, or maybe a video driver issue?
There's always Opera. That fits on a floppy. Doesn't it?
Only if you're using a really old version of Opera. Current downloads of the US-English version run 4.0 MB. The download with all available language packs is 6.3 MB.
Fortunately, you're more likely to find a USB port than a floppy drive on most computers these days, so the extra size doesn't make much of a difference.
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It's a bit more complicated than that:
Old Netscape --> Mozilla
Mozilla --> Netscape 6-7 (at the time, Moz was Netscape's testbed)
Mozilla --> Firefox
Firefox --> Netscape 8+
But yes, as far as I'm concerned, the name may have gone one way, but the core of what Netscape signified ended up as Firefox.
On installing the beta, I found that it'll import settings & bookmarks from:
MSIE
Netscape 8
Netscape 6/7/Mozilla 1.x
Netscape 4.x
Opera
I'm impressed that it'll import from Opera. But I'm astonished that it won't import from the second-most-used browser out there -- the one with which it shares the most code! Guess users are stuck with exporting the bookmarks from Firefox and then importing them from the file.
I certainly hope this is on the buglist to get fixed before the final release.
Believe it or not, at one point AOL actually had a low-cost connection service that they branded as "Netscape." They were convinced that they should be able to get something out of the brand name, even if they were practically ignoring the browser and didn't own the server (IIRC, Netscape sold their server division to Sun before AOL bought them), so they were slapping it on anything they could think of.
I would guess not. Firefox has managed to build up a highly recognizable name, and probably has a bigger following in raw numbers than Netscape did back in its heyday, considering how many more people are on the internet than there were 10 years ago. (Just remember, 78.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.)
On the other hand, if Firefox were to really screw up, I can see an opportunity for Netscape to step in and win back some of its former glory. Though to be honest, at this point if Firefox were to fade, I'd rather see Opera than Netscape. Get some more rendering engines into the mix, get "designers" out of this two-browser mindset.
JWZ, of original Netscape, famously referred to AOL's continual efforts to slap the "Netscape" name on something, anything -- a browser variant, a portal, a low-cost internet connection, whatever -- as "brand necrophilia".
One way to work around this would be to disallow HTML in the embedded content and use another markup language instead, such as BBCode or WikiCode. Then the host site will convert the BBCode to HTML, and can pick and choose exactly which tags it will allow.
@ is based on the letter 'a', so f@ck is pronounced 'fack'
In other words, it's just a misspelling of FAQ, and everyone knows what a FAQ is. What's obscene about that? I mean, every FAQing site on the internet is full of FAQers telling people to Read the FAQing Manual.
Are you serious? Have you looked at that icon? There's a huge hole right in the middle, and no one seems to acknowledge it!
You have not truly experienced the web until you have experienced it using telnet to port 80.
Nope. The exploits in Firefox and IE are completely separate -- just announced at the same time.
The point of web applications isn't performance, it's ubiquity. Hotmail (and remember, it was one of the first big web apps, even before Microsoft bought it) didn't take off because it performed better or had more features than Eudora, Outlook, Netscape or Pegasus -- it took off because you didn't need to install it and you could access it from any computer with an Internet connection and a web browser.
But you knew that, didn't you?
My first reaction was that people had gotten bored with the joke tags. This is the internet, after all, and internet fads fade with time just as the real-world ones do -- faster, even.
Then I remembered that a few days ago I saw people commenting on pouring hot grits down pants, and petrified Natalie Portman (though admittedly this was a Star Wars thread), and realized that on Slashdot, old jokes don't fade away.
One might even say, in Soviet Slashdot, old memes forget you!
You can assume that any vulnerability in Firefox that's in the rendering engine will also work in any other browser built with that version of Gecko. That includes corresponding versions of Flock, SeaMonkey, and probably even K-Meleon and Camino (depending on the original platform). You may have noticed a lot of Flock point releases include things like, "The 0.7.14 Flock Maintenance patch incorporates Mozilla's patch 1.5.0.12."
Now, vulnerabilities in the UI -- say the pop-up blocking system -- could be specific to Firefox, but Flock shares a lot of the UI with Firefox, so there's a good chance that it relies on common code and will still be vulnerable. IIRC Flock 0.8 is based on Firefox 1.5, so if this exploit requires Firefox 2, it's probably OK -- unless you're one of the lucky users testing Flock 0.9.
I've actually found Flash to be less stable lately. It's not uncommon for a couple of Flash ads to start chewing up all my CPU until I have a chance to close the tab.
I'm seriously considering backing down to Flash 7, despite the horrible audio sync problems with the Linux version.
It's a bit simplistic to assume that $browser will always keep you safe. On the other hand, it's important to remember that there are many alternatives available. The good thing about this is that each engine has its own vulnerabilities, so for the same malware to target Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari, it would have to target four different exploits. At least with intended behavior of HTML/DOM/CSS, Gecko, Trident, etc. are (ostensibly) aiming at the same target.
Ever notice that the only vulnerabilities which are really cross-browser tend to be misuse of functionality (like the Unicode domain spoofing attacks a few years back), rather than exploits of bugs?
Right next to the box, it continues:
I'm pretty sure those have been there for a while. Of course, they read as an example of how to format it so that people with the same interests are more likely to pick the same keywords.
Your site would be overrun by spam. It might take a while for the spammers to catch on, but once they did, they would take aim with their botnets and flood you with advertisements for and links to pharmaceuticals of dubious quality, pornography of every sort of persuasion, get-rich-quick schemes, Nigerian scams, body enhancement products, phishing sites, malware of various sorts. And then there would be plain old vandalism of the "Lookit my name, u suk ha ha ha" variety.
Take it from someone who's run his own blog for 4.5 years, and leaves old comment threads open. The spammers are very persistent. My server blocks ~1200 POST attempts per week, plus dozens of comment spams make it past the first line to get caught by other methods.
Maybe you'd have some interesting discussions on there. But you'd need to have some way of at least sorting the wheat from the chaff.
Unless you want to create a haven for spammers, in which case you're not likely to find much help here.
As far as I can recall, there was no fan campaign to save Buffy after Season 5. I don't even remember hearing about it being "canceled." It just switched networks.
There was a campaign to save Angel after its last season, but it (obviously) didn't succeed.
No, now its crystal starts blinking red, and it has to either turn itself in for euthanasia or make a run for sanctuary and hope a Sandman doesn't catch it.
Not checking that site at work, but do they have a picture of the statue where she's holding a pike? 'Cause I don't think Lucas intended to make her look like a pole dancer.
TNG came out not too long after Coca-Cola experimented with the disaster that was "New Coke." The original series and Next Gen were often compared to Coca-Cola Classic and New Coke. Around the time DS9 came out, I recall someone talking about "Classic Trek, New Trek, and Diet Cherry Trek."
A while back I was involved in a discussion on what soft drinks Voyager and Enterprise were. We came up with Voyager being store-brand soda, and Enterprise being carbonated water (i.e. bland), with Babylon 5 being Pepsi (for the intense Trek/B5 rivalry) and Farscape being Mountain Dew (since it's so vastly different.)
Actually, I suspect more slashdotters are familiar with how girls are shaped (or at least a subset thereof) than they are with the concept of actual girls.
That's strange. I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.3 on a considerably slower box (single Athlon 1800, 1GB RAM), and scrolling speed is fine, whether dragging the scrollbar, using the mouse wheel, etc. I suppose it could be an OS-dependent bug (I'm running Linux, not BSD), or optimizations in the official binaries, or maybe a video driver issue?
Only if you're using a really old version of Opera. Current downloads of the US-English version run 4.0 MB. The download with all available language packs is 6.3 MB.
Fortunately, you're more likely to find a USB port than a floppy drive on most computers these days, so the extra size doesn't make much of a difference.