Avant Browser. All the functionality of IE, without the hassles of IE. This exploit does not work in Avant. Avant has popup blocking, Google Bar support, one-click Flash disabler, etc.
I like Opera, and I'm curious about Mozilla, but I just don't see the point since Avant has absolutely everything (as far as I can tell).
Avant is simply a front-end wrapper for the IE Trident rendering engine. You're still using the same buggy, insecure, and otherwise terrible IE engine for web page rendering.
On top of that, you're not getting to use any of the amazing extensions available for Mozilla Firebird, plus you don't have features that Firebird has like Find-Ahead typing. (which I cannot browse without at this point)
And of course, there is XUL, the language that the front-end of Firebird is constructed in, which makes it extremely easy to extend. If you know Javascript & XML, you can hack Firebird without any recompiling. It really is a great product. Try Firebird!
How will this news affect the new 20 and 40 GB iPods? With the low end being bumped up from 10 to 15, there is now a much smaller gap between the low end and middle-of-the-road iPod. Does this mean a bump to the other iPods are expected soon? Should we expect 30 and 50 GB iPods?
I ask because I'm going to be purchasing a 40 GB soon, but I will wait if I think they will be updating the high-end iPods soon. My biggest gripe with Apple is that I feel like I never know if I'm going to regret my purchase in a few short weeks. Also, I have checked the MacRumors.com buyer's guide, but it simply says "Buy Now" since there were updates today. This tells me nothing about the 20 & 40 GB models.
You shelled out the cash for a 17 inch Powerbook, but you weren't willing to spend more than 100 bucks on a primo case to protect the bloody thing? Ye gods man! Loan me 20 bucks?
Point noted, but seriously, the only other case I saw that fit this thing was a near-$200 case from Brenthaven, which didn't feel much sturdier than the Targus bag. If I had to spend the money, I would have certainly spent over $100, sure, but my goal was to hopefully find something nice for under $100. (which I did, and couldn't be happier about!)
I have a Targus bag, solely because of the fact that it was one of the only sturdy bags I could find that actually fit my 17" Powerbook and was under $100.
It's very sturdy, has a very strong shoulder strap & handle, and has enough room to carry my documents, my powerbook, iPod, iPod Dock & headphones, iPod & Laptop adaptors, extra power cable, and digital camera USB cable. It does everything I need it to, and it was pretty cheap too ($65 at Best Buy, IIRC).
And if you want to know if it's strong enough...I let my friend carry my powerbook in the bag. He tripped and dropped the powerbook, only to then land on top of it. Everything inside was just fine, and everything outside is fine too; barely a scratch on the bag itself.
My favorite repeated sounds are found in Nintendo games. Although several games reused sound effects, my absolute favorite repeated sound is one used both in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. It's the "evil laugh" noise.
In Zelda II, it occurs if you die; the screen will say "Game Over, Return of Ganon", and Ganon will laugh at you with a "Ha ha ha ha ha" laugh. In Punch-Out, you'll hear the same laugh if you lose the match to certain fighters, like Soda Popinski!
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Actually it's not, I can tell you've never been near one for at least three reasons:
I have to disagree, it's still dead on arrival for one main reason: changing games.
Those three positives you mentioned (and bluetooth is a big one, in my opinion) don't outweigh the fact that to change games on an N-Gage, you have to do the following:
1) Turn the unit off (which means, turn your *phone* off).
2) Flip it over, and remove the battery cover & battery.
3) Take out the very tiny game chip, replace it with a new game.
4) Replace battery & battery cover.
5) Turn unit back on, wait for system to load, go to the right menu, and then start your game.
Compare this to a GBA, where the steps are turning it off, removing the game cart, putting in a new one, and turning it back on. Especially compare this to a GBA if you're on a train, bus, streetcar, or any other form of public transit. Try easily changing a game on the N-Gage while crammed into a seat on a subway.
This flaw in their design absolutely kills any of the positives of the system, and makes it, at least to me and many other people, D.O.A. Not to mention that I personally really don't want to turn off my phone when I swap games.
And that's one of the scariest, big-brother sounding names I've heard: Looks like it should be pronounced like "Watch Over Ya", even though they have some weird pronounciation like "Wack Off Ya"
Still not as bad as First Union. Why would ANYONE trust a bank whose initials are "F.U."?!;)
Here in Philadelphia, one of the stadiums (originally Corestates) was acquired by First Union. They changed the name of the building to the "Fun Center", aka First Union center. However, everyone (and I do mean everyone, from businesses to DJs to politicians) called it the "F.U. Center". It was the source of many jokes for many years.
To turn off the error messages and use pages instead
It should be noted that the reason that error pages are not turned on by default is that they are currently still buggy. For a while (I think this is now resolved), using error pages would result in losing the most recent item in your history list. See Bug 28586 for more information (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28586 -- copy & paste that, you can't link to Bugzilla from Slashdot).
Also, if you're still using the Moz App Suite (Seamonkey), there are issues with error pages and the address book. See bug 212221 for more information. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212221
In short, Mozilla Error Pages could use some development help, and are not perfect. Use them if you don't mind some possible quirkiness. As for me, I wound up turning them off, the related bugs (especially losing the most recent history entry) irked the hell out me.
Dropping in a Windows 2003 server or even a Windows 2000 server, applying the initial SP and patches available (which are downloaded during the setup even), set it for auto update,
And I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with this.
Turning on auto update on a production server is a good way to lose one's job. I can't tell you how many times I've seen things break when a new MS patch or service pack is applied. So when a new MS patch comes out, we can't patch immediately, since we have no idea what that patch might break. We have to provide lots of testing results with the patch first, then patch production.
In the linux world, you *usually* have the code for the patch, so if push comes to shove, you can review the changes this patch will be making to your system. Compare this to the Microsoft world, where you don't have the source, and you literally have no idea what this patch could possibly affect in your system. I recall less than six months ago, a patch applied to a production server at a friend's office caused SQL server to fail on startup. Took them 3 hours on the phone with MS to try to figure out what was going on, and finally they gave up and had to restore from a backup, and ask all users to re-enter their last 4 or 5 hours worth of work.
And even with a Win2000 server, when a new patch comes out, you have required downtime as part of the patching. All those updates and service packs require reboots, many of them require a reboot after each and every patch! If you find out at 9AM on a Wednesday that your system is vulnerable and needs patching, the soonest you could probably do it in a production environment is lunch time, if you're lucky to get a window there. More likely, you'll have to wait until outside of business hours. And forbid that you have to wait until a weekend maintenance window or something along those lines, you could be running for days without a patch applied, because if you do apply it, your server is going down. That's often not acceptable.
Oh yeah, I should mention that several linux distros also download recent patches during the installation. Mandrake, for example, does this, and I believe SuSE does too.
NT was designed with security as the forefront of the base OS architecture; hence the Object/Token based security system in the NT kernel itself.
Again, I have to disagree. NT security was inherently weak because of the fact that the server only challenges the Domain Controller once per session, so if you have a decent hacker, they can fairly easily hijack your session. Fortunately, Kerberos goes in a different direction, but that's another topic.
I too have a 17" PowerBook, and I also have a GBA SP. I adore the PowerBook, and yes, it definitely can play games that a Game Boy can't. But, take a look at them side by side.
Now tell me, which one do you think is better for quick gaming on the go? I can fit a GBA in my pocket. I had a hard time even finding a good laptop bag for my PowerBook. Besides, if I break or lose my GBA, I'm out $100 at the most. Not true with the Powerbook. There are tons of reasons why a GBA is better for gaming than a PowerBook, and vice-versa. I use both.
You're assuming he won't be able to hand-pick his successor.
Of course, you're absolutely correct. However, one would hope that any replacement of his would be properly elected. Of course, Tauzin himself was elected, so it's very possible that an elected replacement would be just as bad.
Billy Tauzin has been securely in the hands of the MPAA for years now, so this doesn't come as a huge surprise. At least now he won't be around to pass terrible bills any longer!
For those that don't remember, the link above is referring to the Tauzin-Dingell bill, which was the infamous bill to allow companies like Verizon to prevent sharing their lines with other companies offering DSL, like Covad, etc.
I'm more than happy to see Billy Tauzin leave as a congressman, but I have no doubts that the tactics currently employed by the MPAA won't change with Valenti leaving.
The full install of Mozilla is 11Mb. Firebird is 7Mb, Thunderbird is 7.5Mb. That doesn't look MUCH smaller to me.
Full install of Moz for Windows, according to Mozilla.org, is 11.9 MB. Firebird for Windows, also according to Mozilla.org, is 6.0 MB. So, that's about 50% smaller. Especially if you're on dial-up, that *is* MUCH smaller!:)
As for speed differences, try Firebird on a PII or low-end PIII system compared to Mozilla App Suite. Firebird is definitely quicker, and more responsive overall. It also tends to use less RAM on my systems, and does have a faster start time.
Why do I have to set browser.tabs.autoHide to false just to have it keep the tab bar visible all the time like it should be doing by default (don't they understand it's *annoying* to have your whole window shift down whenever you open a new tab?)
Two points here:
1) As of 0.7, you don't have to go to About:Config for that. Go to Tools, Options, Advanced, and turn off "Hide the tab bar when only one website is open."
2) While I also keep the tab bar always showing, saying "it's *annoying*" is only your opinion, not fact. I know several people who want the extra screen space when they only have one tab open, so they keep the tab bar hidden. To each their own, and that's the whole motto of Firebird.
Essentially, it boils down to this: Everyone uses their software differently. What's annoying to you is not annoying to everyone else. This is why Firebird exists; instead of giving everyone the "kitchen-sink" SeaMonkey approach, give them a lean browser, with a good set of default preferences, that the end user can configure however they want.
Finally, Firebird (Especially as of 0.7) is MUCH smaller & faster than SeaMonkey Mozilla builds. It flies on this P3 733 system I'm on, whereas the Mozilla App Suite crawls, and is much less responsive. I can't wait for the day that Firebird fully replaces Mozilla Seamonkey!
P.S. Links to Bugzilla from Slashdot won't work, they have a referrer check set up on there.
P.P.S. I like Automatic Downloading;)
When I submit a comment here on slashdot, it doesn't render the comment approved page correctly. Sometimes it just shows the background, and never loads the text. When it does show the text, it's overlapping the toolbar on the side.
Well, I'm in Firebird 0.7 RC replying to your comment right now, and I'm not seeing a problem at all. On my other machine, I also don't see a problem using Firebird 0.6.1.
Can you reply to this with what version of Firebird you're using, or maybe a link to a screenshot of the goofy behavior? If you don't want to reply here, feel free to email me and I'll see what I can do to help you out.
Honestly, I've only come across 1 or 2 sites that are *really* busted in anything but IE; and fortunately, my bank doesn't require it.:)
GWB had some military service in the Texas Air National Guard.
"Some" being the key word there. GW Bush deserted the Texas Air National Guard for approximately a full year between 1972-1973. This was originally reported in the May 23rd issue of the Boston Globe.
"1-year gap in Bush's Guard duty. No record of airman at drills from 1972-73"
Actually, Firebird has most of the features Navigator has, *if* you
install a metric tonne of Extensions. (This is a major issue,
however; it takes considerably longer and *many* times more
clicking to download and install all those extensions as compared
to just downloading and installing the entire SeaMonkey suite. A
solution needs to be worked out wherein many extensions can be
downloaded and installed in one go.) Even with all of the
extensions, though, FB is still missing a couple of very major
features, like the DOM inspector (which is dogfood, or should
be -- it's painful to do any work on themes without it; it's quite
handy for web development also).
But that is precisely why extensions exist. So that you don't have to have all of those features installed. I run Firebird every day, and I only install 2 extensions: Tabbrowser Preferences and Nuke Image. That's all I need to make Firebird fit the way I browse the web. Do I need the hundreds of other things found in the Seakmonkey releases? Not at all. And I'm sure other people don't either.
The point of extensions is so that Mozilla.org can ship a small, lean browser, and then the user can customize it however they want. Seamonkey, on the other hand, gives you everything you could possibly ever want and more, including the kitchen sink (literally, in Moz 1.3+).
Now then, possibly having some sort of queue for extensions where you select the ones you want installed, then click one button, that would be very cool. However, I'm not sure how much work it would take to deliver that type of functionality.
The fact that I have a 2.53 Ghz P4 and a Radeon 9700 Pro, yet MP3 playback still skips if I move XMMS around the screen. I mean, c'mon, even Win98 handled this better, and that's 5 years old now.
I realize the 2.6 kernel will correct this, and that there are low-latency patches available, but still...
Also, the fact that I've only once been able to get 3D acceleration on my Radeon (in RH8), but as soon as I upgraded my kernel to have working sound with my onboard i810 audio chipset, the ATI module wouldn't work properly, and I was back to 2D only. I'm in Redhat 9 now, DRI is loaded, using the Radeon module, and still no 3D support.
Software installation doesn't bother me much, so long as I'm in Redhat...APT or FreshRPMs takes care of most of the essentials.
make sure you're using X 4.3 with the radeon driver loaded (vesa driver is evil)
Which driver is that?! According to ATI's site, they only have 4.1.0 and 4.2.0 supported versions of their 3D driver (Which is why I haven't upgraded past Redhat 8.0). Radeons have native 2D support in 4.3, but I'm not aware of any accelerated driver for 4.3.0. If I'm wrong, please correct me!
The fact is, a software house in india may produce work just as good as one in the US, at a fraction of the price, simply because the overall cost of living is so much less.
And then, as their economy picks up, and the standard of living increases, companies looking to spend the least on salaries will shut down their companies in India, and move them to a place where they can find cheaper work. Then Indian employees will feel the same pinch that many Americans are feeling right now. It's a cyclical pattern; by and large, companies will do whatever they can to get the work done for less. If that means moving jobs to a place with a lower livable wage, so be it.
I bet for some rather unscrupulous companies, they would go to slave labor if they could.
No one is going to touch mozilla until all the crash bugs are closed. I've had a crash bug open since moz 1.1 and its still not resolved.
From the bug you mentioned:
Follow these instructions EXACTLY.
Open up your version of mozilla (1.4 or nightlies)
Make sure you have the recommended version of java installed (1.4.1 is
recommended by the mozilla 1.4 release notes, or any other version will do)
Start up the javascript console and the java console in that order.
make mozilla fill 1/3 of your screen with the javascript console taking up
another 1/3 and the java console the last 1/3.
put the 3 files (crapzilla.html, crapzilla.java, crapzilla.class in your root
drive (c:\ or/)
type c:\ (or/) in the mozilla URL bar. then click on the crapzilla.html file that is shown in the file list.
wait till the counter counts down to 1500 and you will see a alert box. press Cntrl-Q to exit mozilla, click on the javascript console and hit file->exit, then quickly switch to the java console and hit the close button.
mozilla should now crash with the talkback window.
Yes, I'm so sure that this particular bug is going to prevent millions of people from adopting Mozilla-based products.
Let's not forget that Billy Tauzin was one of the two Congressmen involved in the Tauzin-Dingell bill, which was previously covered on Slashdot. If you recall, this was the bill that would make it legal for the Baby Bells to offer DSL over their own lines, but not open their lines to other providers, such as Covad.
Tauzin is unfortunately pretty much in the pocket of telecom and marketing companies. If you don't agree with this seemingly pro-spam legislation, call your congressional representatives today!
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Avant Browser. All the functionality of IE, without the hassles of IE. This exploit does not work in Avant. Avant has popup blocking, Google Bar support, one-click Flash disabler, etc.
I like Opera, and I'm curious about Mozilla, but I just don't see the point since Avant has absolutely everything (as far as I can tell).
Avant is simply a front-end wrapper for the IE Trident rendering engine. You're still using the same buggy, insecure, and otherwise terrible IE engine for web page rendering.
On top of that, you're not getting to use any of the amazing extensions available for Mozilla Firebird, plus you don't have features that Firebird has like Find-Ahead typing. (which I cannot browse without at this point)
On top of that, Firebird has an excellent Javascript console for debugging, more privacy options, themes, etc. Plus, unlike IE, it handles Javascript correctly!
And of course, there is XUL, the language that the front-end of Firebird is constructed in, which makes it extremely easy to extend. If you know Javascript & XML, you can hack Firebird without any recompiling. It really is a great product. Try Firebird!
Because, as we all know, life is all about impressing women.
What, didn't you get that memo?
How will this news affect the new 20 and 40 GB iPods? With the low end being bumped up from 10 to 15, there is now a much smaller gap between the low end and middle-of-the-road iPod. Does this mean a bump to the other iPods are expected soon? Should we expect 30 and 50 GB iPods?
I ask because I'm going to be purchasing a 40 GB soon, but I will wait if I think they will be updating the high-end iPods soon. My biggest gripe with Apple is that I feel like I never know if I'm going to regret my purchase in a few short weeks. Also, I have checked the MacRumors.com buyer's guide, but it simply says "Buy Now" since there were updates today. This tells me nothing about the 20 & 40 GB models.
You shelled out the cash for a 17 inch Powerbook, but you weren't willing to spend more than 100 bucks on a primo case to protect the bloody thing? Ye gods man! Loan me 20 bucks?
Point noted, but seriously, the only other case I saw that fit this thing was a near-$200 case from Brenthaven, which didn't feel much sturdier than the Targus bag. If I had to spend the money, I would have certainly spent over $100, sure, but my goal was to hopefully find something nice for under $100. (which I did, and couldn't be happier about!)
I have a Targus bag, solely because of the fact that it was one of the only sturdy bags I could find that actually fit my 17" Powerbook and was under $100.
It's very sturdy, has a very strong shoulder strap & handle, and has enough room to carry my documents, my powerbook, iPod, iPod Dock & headphones, iPod & Laptop adaptors, extra power cable, and digital camera USB cable. It does everything I need it to, and it was pretty cheap too ($65 at Best Buy, IIRC).
And if you want to know if it's strong enough...I let my friend carry my powerbook in the bag. He tripped and dropped the powerbook, only to then land on top of it. Everything inside was just fine, and everything outside is fine too; barely a scratch on the bag itself.
My favorite repeated sounds are found in Nintendo games. Although several games reused sound effects, my absolute favorite repeated sound is one used both in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. It's the "evil laugh" noise.
In Zelda II, it occurs if you die; the screen will say "Game Over, Return of Ganon", and Ganon will laugh at you with a "Ha ha ha ha ha" laugh. In Punch-Out, you'll hear the same laugh if you lose the match to certain fighters, like Soda Popinski!
Damn I love original NES.
This was just mentioned here on /. the other day, but according to this article on Groklaw, Christoph Hellwig is (was?) a Caldera (SCO) employee.
SCO is going after SGI for XFS, when one of their own employees was working on it.
Actually it's not, I can tell you've never been near one for at least three reasons:
I have to disagree, it's still dead on arrival for one main reason: changing games.
Those three positives you mentioned (and bluetooth is a big one, in my opinion) don't outweigh the fact that to change games on an N-Gage, you have to do the following:
1) Turn the unit off (which means, turn your *phone* off).
2) Flip it over, and remove the battery cover & battery.
3) Take out the very tiny game chip, replace it with a new game.
4) Replace battery & battery cover.
5) Turn unit back on, wait for system to load, go to the right menu, and then start your game.
Compare this to a GBA, where the steps are turning it off, removing the game cart, putting in a new one, and turning it back on. Especially compare this to a GBA if you're on a train, bus, streetcar, or any other form of public transit. Try easily changing a game on the N-Gage while crammed into a seat on a subway.
This flaw in their design absolutely kills any of the positives of the system, and makes it, at least to me and many other people, D.O.A. Not to mention that I personally really don't want to turn off my phone when I swap games.
And that's one of the scariest, big-brother sounding names I've heard: Looks like it should be pronounced like "Watch Over Ya", even though they have some weird pronounciation like "Wack Off Ya"
;)
Still not as bad as First Union. Why would ANYONE trust a bank whose initials are "F.U."?!
Here in Philadelphia, one of the stadiums (originally Corestates) was acquired by First Union. They changed the name of the building to the "Fun Center", aka First Union center. However, everyone (and I do mean everyone, from businesses to DJs to politicians) called it the "F.U. Center". It was the source of many jokes for many years.
To turn off the error messages and use pages instead
6 -- copy & paste that, you can't link to Bugzilla from Slashdot).
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It should be noted that the reason that error pages are not turned on by default is that they are currently still buggy. For a while (I think this is now resolved), using error pages would result in losing the most recent item in your history list. See Bug 28586 for more information (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2858
Also, if you're still using the Moz App Suite (Seamonkey), there are issues with error pages and the address book. See bug 212221 for more information. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21222
In short, Mozilla Error Pages could use some development help, and are not perfect. Use them if you don't mind some possible quirkiness. As for me, I wound up turning them off, the related bugs (especially losing the most recent history entry) irked the hell out me.
Dropping in a Windows 2003 server or even a Windows 2000 server, applying the initial SP and patches available (which are downloaded during the setup even), set it for auto update,
And I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with this.
Turning on auto update on a production server is a good way to lose one's job. I can't tell you how many times I've seen things break when a new MS patch or service pack is applied. So when a new MS patch comes out, we can't patch immediately, since we have no idea what that patch might break. We have to provide lots of testing results with the patch first, then patch production.
In the linux world, you *usually* have the code for the patch, so if push comes to shove, you can review the changes this patch will be making to your system. Compare this to the Microsoft world, where you don't have the source, and you literally have no idea what this patch could possibly affect in your system. I recall less than six months ago, a patch applied to a production server at a friend's office caused SQL server to fail on startup. Took them 3 hours on the phone with MS to try to figure out what was going on, and finally they gave up and had to restore from a backup, and ask all users to re-enter their last 4 or 5 hours worth of work.
And even with a Win2000 server, when a new patch comes out, you have required downtime as part of the patching. All those updates and service packs require reboots, many of them require a reboot after each and every patch! If you find out at 9AM on a Wednesday that your system is vulnerable and needs patching, the soonest you could probably do it in a production environment is lunch time, if you're lucky to get a window there. More likely, you'll have to wait until outside of business hours. And forbid that you have to wait until a weekend maintenance window or something along those lines, you could be running for days without a patch applied, because if you do apply it, your server is going down. That's often not acceptable.
Oh yeah, I should mention that several linux distros also download recent patches during the installation. Mandrake, for example, does this, and I believe SuSE does too.
NT was designed with security as the forefront of the base OS architecture; hence the Object/Token based security system in the NT kernel itself.
Again, I have to disagree. NT security was inherently weak because of the fact that the server only challenges the Domain Controller once per session, so if you have a decent hacker, they can fairly easily hijack your session. Fortunately, Kerberos goes in a different direction, but that's another topic.
I too have a 17" PowerBook, and I also have a GBA SP. I adore the PowerBook, and yes, it definitely can play games that a Game Boy can't. But, take a look at them side by side.
Now tell me, which one do you think is better for quick gaming on the go? I can fit a GBA in my pocket. I had a hard time even finding a good laptop bag for my PowerBook. Besides, if I break or lose my GBA, I'm out $100 at the most. Not true with the Powerbook. There are tons of reasons why a GBA is better for gaming than a PowerBook, and vice-versa. I use both.
You're assuming he won't be able to hand-pick his successor.
Of course, you're absolutely correct. However, one would hope that any replacement of his would be properly elected. Of course, Tauzin himself was elected, so it's very possible that an elected replacement would be just as bad.
Billy Tauzin has been securely in the hands of the MPAA for years now, so this doesn't come as a huge surprise. At least now he won't be around to pass terrible bills any longer!
For those that don't remember, the link above is referring to the Tauzin-Dingell bill, which was the infamous bill to allow companies like Verizon to prevent sharing their lines with other companies offering DSL, like Covad, etc.
I'm more than happy to see Billy Tauzin leave as a congressman, but I have no doubts that the tactics currently employed by the MPAA won't change with Valenti leaving.
The full install of Mozilla is 11Mb. Firebird is 7Mb, Thunderbird is 7.5Mb. That doesn't look MUCH smaller to me.
:)
Full install of Moz for Windows, according to Mozilla.org, is 11.9 MB. Firebird for Windows, also according to Mozilla.org, is 6.0 MB. So, that's about 50% smaller. Especially if you're on dial-up, that *is* MUCH smaller!
As for speed differences, try Firebird on a PII or low-end PIII system compared to Mozilla App Suite. Firebird is definitely quicker, and more responsive overall. It also tends to use less RAM on my systems, and does have a faster start time.
Why do I have to set browser.tabs.autoHide to false just to have it keep the tab bar visible all the time like it should be doing by default (don't they understand it's *annoying* to have your whole window shift down whenever you open a new tab?)
;)
Two points here:
1) As of 0.7, you don't have to go to About:Config for that. Go to Tools, Options, Advanced, and turn off "Hide the tab bar when only one website is open."
2) While I also keep the tab bar always showing, saying "it's *annoying*" is only your opinion, not fact. I know several people who want the extra screen space when they only have one tab open, so they keep the tab bar hidden. To each their own, and that's the whole motto of Firebird.
Essentially, it boils down to this: Everyone uses their software differently. What's annoying to you is not annoying to everyone else. This is why Firebird exists; instead of giving everyone the "kitchen-sink" SeaMonkey approach, give them a lean browser, with a good set of default preferences, that the end user can configure however they want.
Finally, Firebird (Especially as of 0.7) is MUCH smaller & faster than SeaMonkey Mozilla builds. It flies on this P3 733 system I'm on, whereas the Mozilla App Suite crawls, and is much less responsive. I can't wait for the day that Firebird fully replaces Mozilla Seamonkey!
P.S. Links to Bugzilla from Slashdot won't work, they have a referrer check set up on there.
P.P.S. I like Automatic Downloading
When I submit a comment here on slashdot, it doesn't render the comment approved page correctly. Sometimes it just shows the background, and never loads the text. When it does show the text, it's overlapping the toolbar on the side.
:)
Well, I'm in Firebird 0.7 RC replying to your comment right now, and I'm not seeing a problem at all. On my other machine, I also don't see a problem using Firebird 0.6.1.
Can you reply to this with what version of Firebird you're using, or maybe a link to a screenshot of the goofy behavior? If you don't want to reply here, feel free to email me and I'll see what I can do to help you out.
Honestly, I've only come across 1 or 2 sites that are *really* busted in anything but IE; and fortunately, my bank doesn't require it.
"Some" being the key word there. GW Bush deserted the Texas Air National Guard for approximately a full year between 1972-1973. This was originally reported in the May 23rd issue of the Boston Globe.
More information on that here and here.
Actually, Firebird has most of the features Navigator has, *if* you install a metric tonne of Extensions. (This is a major issue, however; it takes considerably longer and *many* times more clicking to download and install all those extensions as compared to just downloading and installing the entire SeaMonkey suite. A solution needs to be worked out wherein many extensions can be downloaded and installed in one go.) Even with all of the extensions, though, FB is still missing a couple of very major features, like the DOM inspector (which is dogfood, or should be -- it's painful to do any work on themes without it; it's quite handy for web development also).
. xpi, and more information about the DOM inspector as an XPI component can be found here: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3 216.
But that is precisely why extensions exist. So that you don't have to have all of those features installed. I run Firebird every day, and I only install 2 extensions: Tabbrowser Preferences and Nuke Image. That's all I need to make Firebird fit the way I browse the web. Do I need the hundreds of other things found in the Seakmonkey releases? Not at all. And I'm sure other people don't either.
The point of extensions is so that Mozilla.org can ship a small, lean browser, and then the user can customize it however they want. Seamonkey, on the other hand, gives you everything you could possibly ever want and more, including the kitchen sink (literally, in Moz 1.3+).
Now then, possibly having some sort of queue for extensions where you select the ones you want installed, then click one button, that would be very cool. However, I'm not sure how much work it would take to deliver that type of functionality.
Lastly, the DOM inspector is available as an XPI add-on for existing Firebird installations here: http://www.mozilla.gr.jp/~mal/inspector-mozfb-ahm
The fact that I have a 2.53 Ghz P4 and a Radeon 9700 Pro, yet MP3 playback still skips if I move XMMS around the screen. I mean, c'mon, even Win98 handled this better, and that's 5 years old now.
I realize the 2.6 kernel will correct this, and that there are low-latency patches available, but still...
Also, the fact that I've only once been able to get 3D acceleration on my Radeon (in RH8), but as soon as I upgraded my kernel to have working sound with my onboard i810 audio chipset, the ATI module wouldn't work properly, and I was back to 2D only. I'm in Redhat 9 now, DRI is loaded, using the Radeon module, and still no 3D support.
Software installation doesn't bother me much, so long as I'm in Redhat...APT or FreshRPMs takes care of most of the essentials.
make sure you're using X 4.3 with the radeon driver loaded (vesa driver is evil)
Which driver is that?! According to ATI's site, they only have 4.1.0 and 4.2.0 supported versions of their 3D driver (Which is why I haven't upgraded past Redhat 8.0). Radeons have native 2D support in 4.3, but I'm not aware of any accelerated driver for 4.3.0. If I'm wrong, please correct me!
The fact is, a software house in india may produce work just as good as one in the US, at a fraction of the price, simply because the overall cost of living is so much less.
And then, as their economy picks up, and the standard of living increases, companies looking to spend the least on salaries will shut down their companies in India, and move them to a place where they can find cheaper work. Then Indian employees will feel the same pinch that many Americans are feeling right now. It's a cyclical pattern; by and large, companies will do whatever they can to get the work done for less. If that means moving jobs to a place with a lower livable wage, so be it.
I bet for some rather unscrupulous companies, they would go to slave labor if they could.
If you're using ASP scripts, put in at the top of your page. That will disable the default session cookies.
No one is going to touch mozilla until all the crash bugs are closed. I've had a crash bug open since moz 1.1 and its still not resolved.
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/) in the mozilla URL bar. then click on the crapzilla.html file that is shown in the file list.
From the bug you mentioned:
Follow these instructions EXACTLY. Open up your version of mozilla (1.4 or nightlies)
Make sure you have the recommended version of java installed (1.4.1 is recommended by the mozilla 1.4 release notes, or any other version will do)
Start up the javascript console and the java console in that order.
make mozilla fill 1/3 of your screen with the javascript console taking up another 1/3 and the java console the last 1/3.
put the 3 files (crapzilla.html, crapzilla.java, crapzilla.class in your root drive (c:\ or
type c:\ (or
wait till the counter counts down to 1500 and you will see a alert box. press Cntrl-Q to exit mozilla, click on the javascript console and hit file->exit, then quickly switch to the java console and hit the close button.
mozilla should now crash with the talkback window.
Yes, I'm so sure that this particular bug is going to prevent millions of people from adopting Mozilla-based products.
Let's not forget that Billy Tauzin was one of the two Congressmen involved in the Tauzin-Dingell bill, which was previously covered on Slashdot. If you recall, this was the bill that would make it legal for the Baby Bells to offer DSL over their own lines, but not open their lines to other providers, such as Covad.
Tauzin is unfortunately pretty much in the pocket of telecom and marketing companies. If you don't agree with this seemingly pro-spam legislation, call your congressional representatives today!