> But now the Transponder gang (ABetterInternet) are making.xpis to install their shit in Firefox/Mozilla.
The Mozilla team is actively battling that. I'm confident that they won't let the situation escalate to IE proportions.
Firefox 0.9 will have a whitelisting permission system that disallows the installation of XPIs that don't come from trusted sites. It'll ship with a default list and let you add to it yourself as well.
It'll also block XPI installation triggered via onload, onmouseout and onmouseover. Check out bug 240552 and bug 238684 on Bugzilla for more on these issues (not linked because of a/. referer check).
I love the new artwork. It works great in the About box and as a banner on a webpage. It's good to see that Mozilla.org takes branding seriously. I don't think that it works well as an icon though.
The new icon loses its bird-carrying-an-envelope meaning when scaled down. The first thing I thought of was a blue-haired LEGO guy and surely that's not good. The blue color also clashes slightly with the default Windows background color.
Let's hope they tweak the smaller icon sizes for legibility.
The Mozillas also have this great feature as does IE (!). You either have to manually add a few reg entries or use this nice MS utility (ignore the IE5 warning).
It's pretty easy to change though. Under Windows, just go to x:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins, find the file called a9.src and edit it. It's a plain textfile.
> I think Phoenix was always supposed to be an internal codename like Whistler or Longhorn.
The slight difference between the two names is that Phoenix wasn't trademarked. Firefox is. They spent a lot of effort on finding a proper name and trademarking it and are not going to abandon it anytime soon.
They are keeping the name Mozilla Firefox. See the Firefox roadmap if you don't believe me:
"Firefox 1.0 will be called simply "Mozilla Firefox"... or "Firefox" for short."
Just a small addendum:
They only have spyware in the downloads marked with a red star. It still sucks though and the site should be shunned, in my opinion.
> People do create them, in fact there are thousands and thousands [themexp.org] of them out there.
Just a friendly warning, but themexp.org is filled with all kinds of lousy spyware. Their frontpage links to a javascript on http://webpdp.gator.com/4/placement/475/, which presumably tries to install GAIN under IE. They also have the audacity to wrap (!) all the themes that they offer in spyware. That's not nice.
Stay clear of this worthless site and get your themes on good sites like Neowin or DeviantART instead.
Excellent posting, I do say. The 'Score:5, Funny' mod should be reserved for good stuff like this and not for stupid catchphrases like that inane clod-thing.
> Since when is Mozilla releasing stuff under GPL?
Saying Mozilla is GPL'ed was a slipup on my part, since it's only half the truth. It's tri-licensed and the GPL is one of these licenses. Let me quote http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html for you:
"We are now implementing Mozilla relicensing using an MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license."
Also from the website: "Nvu 0.1 binary test builds are now available for Linux and Windows. The source code of Nvu will be released when we reach a more complete product in terms of features. The code will be tri-licensed MPL/GPL/LGPL and we'll contribute it back to Mozilla.org at that time."
I don't know enough about these licenses to know if this is kosher though.
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> But now the Transponder gang (ABetterInternet) are making .xpis to install their shit in Firefox/Mozilla.
/. referer check).
The Mozilla team is actively battling that. I'm confident that they won't let the situation escalate to IE proportions.
Firefox 0.9 will have a whitelisting permission system that disallows the installation of XPIs that don't come from trusted sites. It'll ship with a default list and let you add to it yourself as well.
It'll also block XPI installation triggered via onload, onmouseout and onmouseover. Check out bug 240552 and bug 238684 on Bugzilla for more on these issues (not linked because of a
> Well, Sun Myung Moon has been crowned in Congress.
Why are you mentioning this? Moon owns the Washington Times and not the Washington Post.
> I found it much easier to simply delete the app folder & unzip the new version in the same place.
... then why don't you use the zipfile? You can download it here.
I love the new artwork. It works great in the About box and as a banner on a webpage. It's good to see that Mozilla.org takes branding seriously. I don't think that it works well as an icon though.
The new icon loses its bird-carrying-an-envelope meaning when scaled down. The first thing I thought of was a blue-haired LEGO guy and surely that's not good. The blue color also clashes slightly with the default Windows background color.
Let's hope they tweak the smaller icon sizes for legibility.
> Also, opera lets you use "g query"
The Mozillas also have this great feature as does IE (!). You either have to manually add a few reg entries or use this nice MS utility (ignore the IE5 warning).
> does it search through a9 or generic.a9 ??
A9.
It's pretty easy to change though. Under Windows, just go to x:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins, find the file called a9.src and edit it. It's a plain textfile.
> Review from a current user with pictures and information on ads
Kevin Fox isn't just "a current user". He's a UI designer at Google and works on GMail.
> Why did they have to use a crappy POS like FilePlanet to distribute this?
Payola would be my guess.
> now that's user-friendly!
TweakUI lets you enable this as well. It almost doesn't get more userfriendly than that.
> I think Phoenix was always supposed to be an internal codename like Whistler or Longhorn.
The slight difference between the two names is that Phoenix wasn't trademarked. Firefox is. They spent a lot of effort on finding a proper name and trademarking it and are not going to abandon it anytime soon.
They are keeping the name Mozilla Firefox. See the Firefox roadmap if you don't believe me:
"Firefox 1.0 will be called simply "Mozilla Firefox"... or "Firefox" for short."
> How about a long life brandname for Mozilla Firefox?
What? You mean like Mozilla Firefox? They're not changing it.
Just a small addendum:
They only have spyware in the downloads marked with a red star. It still sucks though and the site should be shunned, in my opinion.
> People do create them, in fact there are thousands and thousands [themexp.org] of them out there.
Just a friendly warning, but themexp.org is filled with all kinds of lousy spyware. Their frontpage links to a javascript on http://webpdp.gator.com/4/placement/475/, which presumably tries to install GAIN under IE. They also have the audacity to wrap (!) all the themes that they offer in spyware. That's not nice.
Stay clear of this worthless site and get your themes on good sites like Neowin or DeviantART instead.
That's all well and good, but the best way to avoid crapware is to practice safe hex.
- If you must use IE, make sure it's patched and that the security settings are locked down (this is the kicker).
- Research before installing unknown software. It's not that hard to see through sleazy marketing. Just look at speedbit.com for one such example.
You don't really need adware removers if you don't get adware in the first place.
That's the browser throbber, not the logo.
I'm no fan of PA, but how can you read that as anything but tongue-in-cheek?
> Since these workers were on strike, they couldn't very well be told at the office anyway.
:) :) :)" is a shoddy and impersonal way to fire someone. High usage of text messages or not.
Whatever happened to old-fashioned snail-mails to their private address? A simple phone call would work too.
"Hi u r fired
Excellent posting, I do say. The 'Score:5, Funny' mod should be reserved for good stuff like this and not for stupid catchphrases like that inane clod-thing.
> Just cause the guy is black doesn't mean [...] that there will be Hip Hop
Do you even know who Mos Def is?
Connecting him with hip-hop is not being racist. That's what he did (quite well I might add) before he decided to be a mediocre actor.
> Then what are you saying?
I'm not saying anything. There hasn't been any opinions in any of my posts in this story. Why's that so hard to grasp?
> So you're saying they should take it down and not share ANYTHING?
No.
> Since when is Mozilla releasing stuff under GPL?
Saying Mozilla is GPL'ed was a slipup on my part, since it's only half the truth. It's tri-licensed and the GPL is one of these licenses. Let me quote http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html for you:
"We are now implementing Mozilla relicensing using an MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license."
> But its not licensed under the GPL yet.
It's based on Mozilla Composer and that program's GPL'ed.
> From the web-site: Nvu is 100% open source
Also from the website:
"Nvu 0.1 binary test builds are now available for Linux and Windows. The source code of Nvu will be released when we reach a more complete product in terms of features. The code will be tri-licensed MPL/GPL/LGPL and we'll contribute it back to Mozilla.org at that time."
I don't know enough about these licenses to know if this is kosher though.
It's there, you just have to dig a little deeper.
. It has -pre2 for Windows available for download.
Try http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/unstable.html