If they want to add features beyond this point, I believe they should fork the product into some sort of "advanced" version.
They will, the basic version you like now will continue to evolve as the Firefox 1.0.x branch, and the advanced version you speak of will be called Firefox 1.1.x, and so on.
However, I agree with what you say and definitely hope they won't add a desktop search to Firefox (of all things!?). I can't even see it has anything to do with web browsing. However, I've later checked the article more closely and while they hint at this in the introduction, I wonder if what they're really saying is "try to cooperate with e.g. Google to get it to integrate with Firefox better", and not add a brand new desktop searcher in Firefox. Although I still don't like that. I don't want Firefox to integrate with third party apps.
Even in a fast-moving field such as software, there is a time to slow down the pace or even stop.
However, the web is still evolving (W3C pushes standards) so if the Mozilla organization wish to keep Firefox the best web browser, it should logically comply with W3C's recommended standards. And if they have that as a goal, I wonder when they'll need to stop.:-)
The latest thing is XHTML 2 and work on implementing it has barely started.
Anyone know why there is a Slashdot bug in the first place?
First, I never experience the Slashdot bug and I'm using Firefox 1.0. I don't know why. I've never seen text floating together with the navigation bar. I know what I should be looking for since I've seen screenshots, but it simply never happens and never had IIRC.
Second, why is it so tied to Slashdot? Even the bug in Bugzilla has it to be specific to Slashdot in the description. Was the fix delayed to Firefox 1.1 because it's a fix to invalid HTML and fixing what's actually Slashdot's problem? I'd think they'd give this bug more priority if Firefox was wrong and rendered incorrectly with proper HTML.
Just wondering why there's a "slashdot bug" in the first case.
I don't even think it's suitable as a Firefox extension.
What would it have to do with web browsing anyway?
A separate application like Google Desktop Search but open source and extensible by plugins to intelligently parse files to generate metadata sounds great though!
If they're indeed thinking about adding it to the browser I can't see why they separated Thunderbird from Firefox, and also don't have Sunbird integrated in their mail client.
Or Windows XP SP2, which is not vulnerable. What kind of imbecil runs XP but not SP2?
What's easier to change, Windows 2000 => XP SP2 or IE => Firefox? For a corporate evironment (where, in many cases, most still run Windows 2000), I think I know which.
Mine is one of those that are compatible (and it's not a small weird one), but there are probably those that aren't too, just like there are incompatible web sites of other kinds.
What do servers see this browser as? (Netscape?)
They see mine as:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
It's up to the scripts to interpret that. A poor script may see it as Netscape 4, another one might actually see the "Gecko" part and understand it's either Netscape 7 or Mozilla-based, yet another script might see it's Firefox 1.0.
Is it really faster than Safari in Mac OS X?
This one is N/A to me.:)
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No, but for following the tradition in numbered Slashdot lists.
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I don't know what 9 should be, but 10 should be "Profit!"
What's new? WarGames is all about nuclear wars, and...:-)
Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David.
Word of warning though Ubuntu may not be the best option for dual boots on Dell Laptops (more correctly it seems to be the debian installer). It nuked my win2000 install on one and refuses to see any partitions on the other and will only accept the whole device.
Hmm, what does Dell have to do with this?:-/
Just curious, since it sounds like a nice distro I'd be interested in. Also looking for 1 CD stuff; they certainly don't need to have many more apps included than Windows XP... I still have a choice if I want to use some less used tools, it's called Internet.:-P
I'd rather see coders spending time making extraordinary good and easy installers and uninstallers for said downloadable apps instead of looking how to include as much as possible on the CD. Isn't Internet pretty common by now, anyway? And no, Gentoo is probably not the distro for me since I'm not sure it's for amateurs. I'm not even looking for a processor-optimized distro, although it would be a nice bonus of course.
I never got the idea with mega-sized Linux distros. "Choice" doesn't necessarily have to mean "cram stuff into a lot of CD's to confuse a user". You have software choice even if you don't do this, right?
Use Peergurardian and Blocklist Manager. Not 100% bulletproof but still a greatway to protect your computer from most unwanted visitors.
Has there been any sign they do anything good at all?
Not 100% bulletproof sounds about right. For all we know, it could be 0% bulletproof. All it takes for (RI|MP)AA is to use a public network, right? A phone call to a university's admins to arrange something?
I recall that can be pretty dangerous, with no warning given (no, won't test it myself). Yes, you can both mount and unmount devices on a Windows machine, to a path on an existing drive too. But Microsoft always hides the fun little things their OS supports for some reason.
The command to try is mountvol c:/d (on either 2000 or XP) and then see what happens. If it's what I recall, it can be pretty annoying especially if you manage to restart Windows afterwards. I think you might need to hack the Windows registry... on your then unmounted drive.
... does it work properly in IE 5 and IE 6, given it involves things like it might *cough* not support too well (while still being clear market leaders)?
I heard especially Windows Me has some great entertainment value! Dodge the BSOD monsters with the... no wait, these were the overpowered monsters you couldn't do much about, sorry.
Ah, later down in the article it says it only affects XP that hasn't installed SP2... Yet another reason to do that, I suppose.:-P You're crazy if you haven't (and even if you have you're still using a huge hacker target to an OS). If you can't for some reason, you should use a different OS.
Who here also thinks it'd be just as expensive to convert from Linux to Windows?
Yeah, but that's beyond most companies concern since they don't upgrade that way, and therefore probably not seen as worth bringing up. Compare to analyzing a marriage between Elaine and LeChuck isn't even discussed, since that shouldn't be able to happen.:-)
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If they want to add features beyond this point, I believe they should fork the product into some sort of "advanced" version.
:-)
They will, the basic version you like now will continue to evolve as the Firefox 1.0.x branch, and the advanced version you speak of will be called Firefox 1.1.x, and so on.
However, I agree with what you say and definitely hope they won't add a desktop search to Firefox (of all things!?). I can't even see it has anything to do with web browsing. However, I've later checked the article more closely and while they hint at this in the introduction, I wonder if what they're really saying is "try to cooperate with e.g. Google to get it to integrate with Firefox better", and not add a brand new desktop searcher in Firefox. Although I still don't like that. I don't want Firefox to integrate with third party apps.
Even in a fast-moving field such as software, there is a time to slow down the pace or even stop.
However, the web is still evolving (W3C pushes standards) so if the Mozilla organization wish to keep Firefox the best web browser, it should logically comply with W3C's recommended standards. And if they have that as a goal, I wonder when they'll need to stop.
The latest thing is XHTML 2 and work on implementing it has barely started.
Anyone know why there is a Slashdot bug in the first place?
First, I never experience the Slashdot bug and I'm using Firefox 1.0. I don't know why. I've never seen text floating together with the navigation bar. I know what I should be looking for since I've seen screenshots, but it simply never happens and never had IIRC.
Second, why is it so tied to Slashdot? Even the bug in Bugzilla has it to be specific to Slashdot in the description. Was the fix delayed to Firefox 1.1 because it's a fix to invalid HTML and fixing what's actually Slashdot's problem? I'd think they'd give this bug more priority if Firefox was wrong and rendered incorrectly with proper HTML.
Just wondering why there's a "slashdot bug" in the first case.
Heck no, what are they smoking??
I don't even think it's suitable as a Firefox extension.
What would it have to do with web browsing anyway?
A separate application like Google Desktop Search but open source and extensible by plugins to intelligently parse files to generate metadata sounds great though!
If they're indeed thinking about adding it to the browser I can't see why they separated Thunderbird from Firefox, and also don't have Sunbird integrated in their mail client.
Or Windows XP SP2, which is not vulnerable.
What kind of imbecil runs XP but not SP2?
What's easier to change, Windows 2000 => XP SP2 or IE => Firefox?
For a corporate evironment (where, in many cases, most still run Windows 2000), I think I know which.
Speaking of security issues, the release of today have these fixes:
1 .0 .html
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/
Yes, 9 potential security holes fixed, and I doubt it was all. In any case, you're recommended to upgrade ASAP for these reasons alone.
Is this browser compatible with banking sites?
:)
Mine is one of those that are compatible (and it's not a small weird one), but there are probably those that aren't too, just like there are incompatible web sites of other kinds.
What do servers see this browser as? (Netscape?)
They see mine as:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
It's up to the scripts to interpret that. A poor script may see it as Netscape 4, another one might actually see the "Gecko" part and understand it's either Netscape 7 or Mozilla-based, yet another script might see it's Firefox 1.0.
Is it really faster than Safari in Mac OS X?
This one is N/A to me.
No, but for following the tradition in numbered Slashdot lists.
I don't know what 9 should be, but 10 should be "Profit!"
I always post this in Firefox threads, so why should this be the exception?
Fixed on trunk, and will therefore be fixed in Firefox 1.1.
Argh, that's not much prettier with spaces added to them and all.
:P
Why couldn't you use links?
No IRC client
Get Chatzilla then?
Will integrate nicely with Firefox and doing that will still avoid a lot of cruft in the Mozilla Suite.
Why should I switch from Mozilla to Firefox?
Because you get more girls.
Or are you saying girls prefer big scary lizards to cuddly firefox plush toys?
What's new? WarGames is all about nuclear wars, and... :-)
Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up, David.
Word of warning though Ubuntu may not be the best option for dual boots on Dell Laptops (more correctly it seems to be the debian installer). It nuked my win2000 install on one and refuses to see any partitions on the other and will only accept the whole device.
:-/
:-P
Hmm, what does Dell have to do with this?
Just curious, since it sounds like a nice distro I'd be interested in. Also looking for 1 CD stuff; they certainly don't need to have many more apps included than Windows XP... I still have a choice if I want to use some less used tools, it's called Internet.
I'd rather see coders spending time making extraordinary good and easy installers and uninstallers for said downloadable apps instead of looking how to include as much as possible on the CD. Isn't Internet pretty common by now, anyway? And no, Gentoo is probably not the distro for me since I'm not sure it's for amateurs. I'm not even looking for a processor-optimized distro, although it would be a nice bonus of course.
I never got the idea with mega-sized Linux distros. "Choice" doesn't necessarily have to mean "cram stuff into a lot of CD's to confuse a user". You have software choice even if you don't do this, right?
Hasn't everyone moved on to OS X and Linux?
What, are you saying you need to run both to get an improvement over Windows?
Anyway, yeah I'll switch to OS X. Just hand me the damn hardware.
(Hyperspace Required)
:-o
Damn, that's some nasty browser requirements.
Is there a Firefox plugin for that?
Use Peergurardian and Blocklist Manager. Not 100% bulletproof but still a greatway to protect your computer from most unwanted visitors.
Has there been any sign they do anything good at all?
Not 100% bulletproof sounds about right. For all we know, it could be 0% bulletproof. All it takes for (RI|MP)AA is to use a public network, right? A phone call to a university's admins to arrange something?
I recall that can be pretty dangerous, with no warning given (no, won't test it myself). Yes, you can both mount and unmount devices on a Windows machine, to a path on an existing drive too. But Microsoft always hides the fun little things their OS supports for some reason.
/d (on either 2000 or XP) and then see what happens. If it's what I recall, it can be pretty annoying especially if you manage to restart Windows afterwards. I think you might need to hack the Windows registry... on your then unmounted drive.
The command to try is mountvol c:
... does it work properly in IE 5 and IE 6, given it involves things like it might *cough* not support too well (while still being clear market leaders)?
:-/
Otherwise it seems pretty useless.
Didn't you even read the first sentence in the news summary?
Anyway, they all seem to be OK now.
What other games are missing from Mac OS X?"
... no wait, these were the overpowered monsters you couldn't do much about, sorry.
I heard especially Windows Me has some great entertainment value! Dodge the BSOD monsters with the
Isn't that child getting a bit old for breastfeeding? Hmm... Funny with the "OMG what're you doing!" look on her too.
Ah, later down in the article it says it only affects XP that hasn't installed SP2... Yet another reason to do that, I suppose. :-P You're crazy if you haven't (and even if you have you're still using a huge hacker target to an OS). If you can't for some reason, you should use a different OS.
And congrats and not being vulnerable to the latest IT URL spoofing flaw. That one's so easy even a kid can do it.
Doesn't work in my IE 6 under Windows XP SP2.
The address bar says "http://www.google.com/" just like Firefox.
Yeah, but that's beyond most companies concern since they don't upgrade that way, and therefore probably not seen as worth bringing up. Compare to analyzing a marriage between Elaine and LeChuck isn't even discussed, since that shouldn't be able to happen.
Oh drat! You already posted and can't mod!