Get a faster harddrive
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Maybe your harddrive is so slow that its taking forever to feed the information into the CPU.
Resizeable tabs please!!
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I'd like to be able to set my tabs to a size that i like it, I'm in high res and the tabs are way tiny
either resizeable, or have the tabs take up ALL the space by default and get smaller as you have more of them.
an improvement for the tab feature would be
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To instead of having two tiny tiny tabs and a long huge empty space. Instead have the tabs auto resize according to how much space you are using, like two tabs would be half and half, and the more tabs you have the smaller the tabs get. its annoying to have to click tiny little tabs in the far left and see all that wasted space.
Also an open picture in new tag would be useful
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It would be even more useful to right click a piture and tell it to open in a tab
Re:When will Mozilla Innovate?
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PSM auto completes your forums, but what i mean by auto complete is like when you enter in a URL, and you start entering and it guesses what you are about to type and puts it in there.
I dont like the way PSM gives me a list, why do i want everyone to see all my usernames?
And its a good thing to use "*" because what if you dont want people knowing your username for security reasons? If you are at work, using windows, then you dont want people to know your username because they could simply look for the plain text windows password and if it matches your mozilla password you are screwed.
Security is an issue when you have yuor credit card info in your browser.
Whats wrong with more features?
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I want powerful software, I'm not running on a 486 like you and having more features does not scare me.
and YES i do use linux so i know where you are coming from but in the case of a browser, features are a good thing when useful.
Let the proxy cache be distributed
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Thats a very good idea, if the proxy cache is distributed, and people from certain sites sign up to it.
Say slashdot people sign up to a distributed proxy cache server, where the cache is stored on our harddrives, which would make browsing slashdot faster for US because we subscribed to the slashdot cache network.
Great idea, now go write some code.
Its not faster than MOziilla, its not more stable
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Konq is good, but MOzilla is faster, more powerful and more stable.
Theres bugs in Mozilla, but if you honestly think there will be a bug which allows file execution???? sure there might be a bug, and the second you all find out about it, it will already be patched because Mozilla is open source, you can patch it yourself, or the person who finds the bug will just tell Mozilla and it will be patched before anyone even knows.
I forgot to mention
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stability speed and power are all ratios.
Having too much speed and not enough stability is a problem.
Having too much power and not enough speed is a problem.
Having too much stability and not enough power is a problem.
Having too much speed and not enough power is a problem.
Opera = too much speed not enough power.
Lynx = too much stability not enough power.
IE = too much stability not enough speed.
Mozilla = just enough speed, power, stability, its good at everything, but not the best at anything, well rounded software is usually best.
90 percent of MOzilla staff work for AOL.
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Netscape is owned by AOL, Most Mozilla staff are Netscape staff.
Aol owns the staff thus they own Mozilla.
Re:Mozilla is the BEST browser!
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Quote-" Mozilla's codebase is big enough already, adding features like these would simply be increasing the code's complexity while not being as well suited to the task as a dedicated program. This is also the basis of the Unix philosophy: make several programs to do one thing, and do it well, instead of one program to do everything and suck at them all. Add to that that you do not want your instant messaging programs to die when your browser does, and vice versa."-
Unix PHILOSOPHY IS NOT FOR 99.9 percent of ALL people on the web, just 1 percent of Unix users.
Please do not apply Unix Philosophy to people using MSN explorer!!!!
You arent attacking me, You are a unix user, So am I, but the average user is not one of us, the Average user is using IE right now because Mozilla lacks the features needed to make them switch over.
Also, telling me its a horrible thing to do precaching because it will congest the internet, Whats the internet there for? to be USED.
What about sites like slashdot? Ok fine, if my idea was flawed, INTELLIGENT pre caching, meaning YOU control which sites will precache and which sites wont.
Slashdot should definately precache. So should most news sites. As long as we control it, the net wont be congested.
We need features to help the average user, not a linux user running lynx on a 486 who complains about bloat.
I'm not trying to attack Linux users because I'm one, I just happen to know what Windows users want, They WANT bloat, thats why IE is bloated, thats why AOL is bloated, but they want USEFUL bloat, as long as these features are useful to them they dont care how complex the code gets. Of course WE care, but we can just do a custom install and 0 bloat.
do you use intel pentium 4?
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SSE enhancements or whatever else you get from using the P4.
If you use precompiled binaries, then its not specifically for YOUR machine, so it could be slower, sometimes its fine if you find one compiled for the P4, or for the Athlon, but usually you dont know what its compiled for, you just see i686, so someone could have compiled this on an athlon and you are on a P4, no speed benifit!
More on Innovation
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I mentioned earlier username and password auto complete.
This would also be a userful feature because
A someone looking at your hands would have no way of knowing your username OR your password
and using some sorta shielding via
stars, both the username and password could be hidden, all you'd have to do is type the first 3 letters of the username and it auto completes.
Would also be useful to be able to type in a password for say, auto login, you type in your password and now every one of your username and passwords auto completes automatically and logs you in.
This way you only have to type in a main password and it turns on an auto login feature, but if you dont know this, then its turned off so if more than one person used your computer.
I suppose its almost like the passport idea from Microsoft but i see it being useful even if not safe.
Still sounds better than passport.
When will Mozilla Innovate?
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I want to see the Mozilla team create NEW features, I tried to give some ideas, such as username and password autocomplete, another thought would be a shielded password and username autocomplete which uses stars to hide both the username and password.
This way someone looking at your keyboard cant look at your hands and see your password because its set to autocomplete.
Compile mozilla, dont use RPMS!
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Think SPEED
Mozilla is the BEST browser!
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Right now no Browser even compares in terms of speed/power ratio.
Sure its debateable that Opera is faster, But Mozilla is more powerful, Its Debateable that IE is more stable, but Mozilla is faster.
Right now, in terms of speed and power Mozilla is the BEST browser you can have.
However if any Mozilla coders are reading this, what needs to be done now to make Mozilla even better, is to start intergrating tools into it, I know all the people on their 486s will scream "BLOAT" But this is what the average user wants, not the average geek.
By intergration i mean, why not tie winamp into Mozilla itself in the same way flash and quicktime are tied in so when someone clicks on an mp3 file the embeded winamp loads and plays it.
Intergrate ICQ + AOL into mozilla all on ONE list, I dont mean jabber but i mean OFFICIAL clients, Mozilla afterall is owned by AOL.
This sounds like feature bloat and yes it could be, but Most windows users have ICQ open and Mozilla open wasting vast amounts of ram, Intergrating these tools in a good way would be nice.
Mozilla also needs better memory management, I know its fast now, its as fast as it can be, but it seems they have stopped focusing on improving the speed, I say they should keep trying to make it as fast and as optimized as possible, this is for the linux using crowd, and the geeks, We want it to be fast and use LESS ram yet remain powerful. Difficult yes, but theres still room for improvement.
Some other features i want, when i download an mp3, or a file, i want to actually SEE it on the desktop or directory its downloading, i dont want to download it to a temp directory and then transfer, Some people like to open files before they are 100 percent complete, such as mp3s.
Last but not least, better and more intelligent cache, I know mozilla is fast right now, but some of us have broadband connections, while our browser is sitting idle we should have an option to allow pre caching of entire websites while we are reading that long article.
Once again, when more people get broadband it will be more important to pre cache websites by downloading BEFORE people actually click it, this gives them the illusion that things are faster because they dont have to "wait" for a page to load, its already loaded. For people on 56k i can see why they might complain, but please put some broadband options into Mozilla.
Theres alot of features i like, but Mozilla needs to be more innovative, I dont think its good enough for them to go around stealing all of IEs features, taking the old Netscape features, and stopping there.
Example, the password remember feature is nice, when i log into hotmail it gives me a list, but what if i dont want someone looking to see all my user names? How about auto complete in the username section to fill the username when i type "Han(autocompleted) HanzoSan and password autocomplete for people who cannot remember their password fully.
Thats just one useful feature that they COULD do that no one else has done. will they? I doubt it but maybe someone is reading this and will add some of these features.
Mozilla is the best browser, but in order to stay the best they need to innovate not copy Opera, IE, and others.
Nautilus takes a full 5 seconds to load, I'm using a SCSI Cheetah State of the art harddrive with 256 megs of ram and Nautilus is the slowest loading program on my machine.
I could load Mozilla 3 times in the time nautilus takes to load.
I must admit, it does take Konq a f
New seconds less to load than nautilus making Konq slow as hell too, but its certainly fast enough when compared to the speed to power ratio.
Konq is as powerful if not more powerful than nautilus, and it loads at the same speed or faster,
in terms of speed I think they could increase speed via caching and Konq would load instantly because it would load with KDE itself.
Really, I have the harddrive speed to spare, the reason Nautilus loads slow is because they didnt do a good job caching it.
Nautilus 1.5 is about the come out, Its going to be as fast as Konq now and has vector based icons, Finally its BETTER than Konq however, Even if its better, they spent 15 million dollars on this?! A file manager?
I'm still disapointed in Eazel AND in Gnome, both had shitloads of money, and just burned right through it, I suppose the money was being used to buy fancy chairs and coffee machines for the programmers.
I see it this way, Nautilus needs money, Setup a Nautilus foundation SEPERATE of KDE, have slashdot post up an article with an interview called "save the Linux Desktop" where a nautilus programmer tells exactly why Eazel went down, and then tells of the plans they currrently have, and then allow US to pay say a fee of $5 a month to save the Linux Desktop, Take a page from transgaming. I mean afterall if Linux on the desktop is really so important, Then people will be willing to pay $5 for a few months, i bet people pay more than that subcribing to get the latest Beta CDs from Mandrake or redhat.
OSX just came out, most Apple supporters still use OS9, OSX has no software support (even worse than Linux) poor hardware support (worse than linux)
Basically OSX is freeBSD, and FreeBSD is not the most supported Unix. Solaris is, and then Linux. FreeBSD is actually the least supported flavor with something like 0.1 percent.
E17 is limited by X, Improve X, and E17 will improve GUI.
E17 should be compareable to OSX in terms of its easy of use and its flashyness
but just like OSX it will be doing most of it in software so it will be somewhat slow, We need hardware specific effects which use say Gforce3.
They have some hardware effects like alpha channel and i think they are working on scalaing, but the more effects, the better it will look
maybe motion blur, shadows, bump mapping etc would look nice
A 2d OS with 3d effects is the way to go.
Like windows you can litterally flip and file them into a folder all animated and then file through them again and this folder being multiple desktops.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe your harddrive is so slow that its taking forever to feed the information into the CPU.
I'd like to be able to set my tabs to a size that i like it, I'm in high res and the tabs are way tiny
either resizeable, or have the tabs take up ALL the space by default and get smaller as you have more of them.
To instead of having two tiny tiny tabs and a long huge empty space. Instead have the tabs auto resize according to how much space you are using, like two tabs would be half and half, and the more tabs you have the smaller the tabs get. its annoying to have to click tiny little tabs in the far left and see all that wasted space.
It would be even more useful to right click a piture and tell it to open in a tab
PSM auto completes your forums, but what i mean by auto complete is like when you enter in a URL, and you start entering and it guesses what you are about to type and puts it in there.
I dont like the way PSM gives me a list, why do i want everyone to see all my usernames?
And its a good thing to use "*" because what if you dont want people knowing your username for security reasons? If you are at work, using windows, then you dont want people to know your username because they could simply look for the plain text windows password and if it matches your mozilla password you are screwed.
Security is an issue when you have yuor credit card info in your browser.
I want powerful software, I'm not running on a 486 like you and having more features does not scare me.
and YES i do use linux so i know where you are coming from but in the case of a browser, features are a good thing when useful.
Thats a very good idea, if the proxy cache is distributed, and people from certain sites sign up to it.
Say slashdot people sign up to a distributed proxy cache server, where the cache is stored on our harddrives, which would make browsing slashdot faster for US because we subscribed to the slashdot cache network.
Great idea, now go write some code.
Konq is good, but MOzilla is faster, more powerful and more stable.
Plus Konq is just or linux and KDE at that.
http://www.uprizer.com/
They claim to have a way to use distributed networking to save billions of dollars for fortune 500 companies.
Perhaps the broadband industry will be saved via better or shall i say smarter networking.
Anyhow the economy is bad now, i expect every industry to suffer, even the ones with the demand.
Theres bugs in Mozilla, but if you honestly think there will be a bug which allows file execution???? sure there might be a bug, and the second you all find out about it, it will already be patched because Mozilla is open source, you can patch it yourself, or the person who finds the bug will just tell Mozilla and it will be patched before anyone even knows.
stability speed and power are all ratios.
Having too much speed and not enough stability is a problem.
Having too much power and not enough speed is a problem.
Having too much stability and not enough power is a problem.
Having too much speed and not enough power is a problem.
Opera = too much speed not enough power.
Lynx = too much stability not enough power.
IE = too much stability not enough speed.
Mozilla = just enough speed, power, stability, its good at everything, but not the best at anything, well rounded software is usually best.
Netscape is owned by AOL, Most Mozilla staff are Netscape staff.
Aol owns the staff thus they own Mozilla.
Quote-" Mozilla's codebase is big enough already, adding features like these would simply be increasing the code's complexity while not being as well suited to the task as a dedicated program. This is also the basis of the Unix philosophy: make several programs to do one thing, and do it well, instead of one program to do everything and suck at them all. Add to that that you do not want your instant messaging programs to die when your browser does, and vice versa."-
Unix PHILOSOPHY IS NOT FOR 99.9 percent of ALL people on the web, just 1 percent of Unix users.
Please do not apply Unix Philosophy to people using MSN explorer!!!!
You arent attacking me, You are a unix user, So am I, but the average user is not one of us, the Average user is using IE right now because Mozilla lacks the features needed to make them switch over.
Also, telling me its a horrible thing to do precaching because it will congest the internet, Whats the internet there for? to be USED.
What about sites like slashdot? Ok fine, if my idea was flawed, INTELLIGENT pre caching, meaning YOU control which sites will precache and which sites wont.
Slashdot should definately precache. So should most news sites. As long as we control it, the net wont be congested.
We need features to help the average user, not a linux user running lynx on a 486 who complains about bloat.
I'm not trying to attack Linux users because I'm one, I just happen to know what Windows users want, They WANT bloat, thats why IE is bloated, thats why AOL is bloated, but they want USEFUL bloat, as long as these features are useful to them they dont care how complex the code gets. Of course WE care, but we can just do a custom install and 0 bloat.
Rasterman told me himself that X was limiting him.
Hes working on the enlightenment project, hes having problems with alpha channeling and you are telling me all this bogus nonsense?
I have ideas, contact me 17272723 on ICQ
SSE enhancements or whatever else you get from using the P4.
If you use precompiled binaries, then its not specifically for YOUR machine, so it could be slower, sometimes its fine if you find one compiled for the P4, or for the Athlon, but usually you dont know what its compiled for, you just see i686, so someone could have compiled this on an athlon and you are on a P4, no speed benifit!
I mentioned earlier username and password auto complete.
This would also be a userful feature because
A someone looking at your hands would have no way of knowing your username OR your password
and using some sorta shielding via
stars, both the username and password could be hidden, all you'd have to do is type the first 3 letters of the username and it auto completes.
Would also be useful to be able to type in a password for say, auto login, you type in your password and now every one of your username and passwords auto completes automatically and logs you in.
This way you only have to type in a main password and it turns on an auto login feature, but if you dont know this, then its turned off so if more than one person used your computer.
I suppose its almost like the passport idea from Microsoft but i see it being useful even if not safe.
Still sounds better than passport.
I want to see the Mozilla team create NEW features, I tried to give some ideas, such as username and password autocomplete, another thought would be a shielded password and username autocomplete which uses stars to hide both the username and password.
This way someone looking at your keyboard cant look at your hands and see your password because its set to autocomplete.
Think SPEED
Right now no Browser even compares in terms of speed/power ratio.
Sure its debateable that Opera is faster, But Mozilla is more powerful, Its Debateable that IE is more stable, but Mozilla is faster.
Right now, in terms of speed and power Mozilla is the BEST browser you can have.
However if any Mozilla coders are reading this, what needs to be done now to make Mozilla even better, is to start intergrating tools into it, I know all the people on their 486s will scream "BLOAT" But this is what the average user wants, not the average geek.
By intergration i mean, why not tie winamp into Mozilla itself in the same way flash and quicktime are tied in so when someone clicks on an mp3 file the embeded winamp loads and plays it.
Intergrate ICQ + AOL into mozilla all on ONE list, I dont mean jabber but i mean OFFICIAL clients, Mozilla afterall is owned by AOL.
This sounds like feature bloat and yes it could be, but Most windows users have ICQ open and Mozilla open wasting vast amounts of ram, Intergrating these tools in a good way would be nice.
Mozilla also needs better memory management, I know its fast now, its as fast as it can be, but it seems they have stopped focusing on improving the speed, I say they should keep trying to make it as fast and as optimized as possible, this is for the linux using crowd, and the geeks, We want it to be fast and use LESS ram yet remain powerful. Difficult yes, but theres still room for improvement.
Some other features i want, when i download an mp3, or a file, i want to actually SEE it on the desktop or directory its downloading, i dont want to download it to a temp directory and then transfer, Some people like to open files before they are 100 percent complete, such as mp3s.
Last but not least, better and more intelligent cache, I know mozilla is fast right now, but some of us have broadband connections, while our browser is sitting idle we should have an option to allow pre caching of entire websites while we are reading that long article.
Once again, when more people get broadband it will be more important to pre cache websites by downloading BEFORE people actually click it, this gives them the illusion that things are faster because they dont have to "wait" for a page to load, its already loaded. For people on 56k i can see why they might complain, but please put some broadband options into Mozilla.
Theres alot of features i like, but Mozilla needs to be more innovative, I dont think its good enough for them to go around stealing all of IEs features, taking the old Netscape features, and stopping there.
Example, the password remember feature is nice, when i log into hotmail it gives me a list, but what if i dont want someone looking to see all my user names? How about auto complete in the username section to fill the username when i type "Han(autocompleted) HanzoSan and password autocomplete for people who cannot remember their password fully.
Thats just one useful feature that they COULD do that no one else has done. will they? I doubt it but maybe someone is reading this and will add some of these features.
Mozilla is the best browser, but in order to stay the best they need to innovate not copy Opera, IE, and others.
Nautilus takes a full 5 seconds to load, I'm using a SCSI Cheetah State of the art harddrive with 256 megs of ram and Nautilus is the slowest loading program on my machine.
I could load Mozilla 3 times in the time nautilus takes to load.
I must admit, it does take Konq a f
New seconds less to load than nautilus making Konq slow as hell too, but its certainly fast enough when compared to the speed to power ratio.
Konq is as powerful if not more powerful than nautilus, and it loads at the same speed or faster,
in terms of speed I think they could increase speed via caching and Konq would load instantly because it would load with KDE itself.
Really, I have the harddrive speed to spare, the reason Nautilus loads slow is because they didnt do a good job caching it.
Nautilus 1.5 is about the come out, Its going to be as fast as Konq now and has vector based icons, Finally its BETTER than Konq however, Even if its better, they spent 15 million dollars on this?! A file manager?
I'm still disapointed in Eazel AND in Gnome, both had shitloads of money, and just burned right through it, I suppose the money was being used to buy fancy chairs and coffee machines for the programmers.
I see it this way, Nautilus needs money, Setup a Nautilus foundation SEPERATE of KDE, have slashdot post up an article with an interview called "save the Linux Desktop" where a nautilus programmer tells exactly why Eazel went down, and then tells of the plans they currrently have, and then allow US to pay say a fee of $5 a month to save the Linux Desktop, Take a page from transgaming. I mean afterall if Linux on the desktop is really so important, Then people will be willing to pay $5 for a few months, i bet people pay more than that subcribing to get the latest Beta CDs from Mandrake or redhat.
OSX just came out, most Apple supporters still use OS9, OSX has no software support (even worse than Linux) poor hardware support (worse than linux)
Basically OSX is freeBSD, and FreeBSD is not the most supported Unix. Solaris is, and then Linux. FreeBSD is actually the least supported flavor with something like 0.1 percent.
Think about it, most open source programmers arent getting paid and do this in their free time.
Sooo, with no job they have more free time !
Think about what you said
E17 is limited by X, Improve X, and E17 will improve GUI.
E17 should be compareable to OSX in terms of its easy of use and its flashyness
but just like OSX it will be doing most of it in software so it will be somewhat slow, We need hardware specific effects which use say Gforce3.
They have some hardware effects like alpha channel and i think they are working on scalaing, but the more effects, the better it will look
maybe motion blur, shadows, bump mapping etc would look nice
A 2d OS with 3d effects is the way to go.
Like windows you can litterally flip and file them into a folder all animated and then file through them again and this folder being multiple desktops.
Just do what OSX did Just better