One of the Mozilla related blogs I read suggested filling search logs with useless data if everyone does this in the same query then both the search engines and the government will know we don't find this acceptable.
The Google toolbar for firefox only adds a few items that I consider useful, however as this toolbar integrates seamlessly with Firefox toolbar customisation then you can just move the items you need into other areas of the screen and hide the toolbar itself.
e.g. the Google search box on the toolbar incorporates Google suggest, so I've customised the toolbar and removed the Firefox built in search box and replaced it with the Google one.
I also like to see the pagerank of sites that I help develop so I've dragged the pagerank icon to the left of the throbber on the menubar (Linux and Windows) or to the left of the personal toolbar (on Mac) so I can see it at all times. Then I hide the rest of the toolbar.
To customise toolbars simply right click on any area of the toolbars that don't have any other context menu (e.g. reload, stop, home buttons) or select View > Toolbars > Customize.
Google are also offering $1 per download to members of their adsense program who put a link to download Firefox with the Google toolbar on their sites. For Google it is good to encourage use of Firefox as Firefox will not default to MSN search like IE does - and remember what Ballmer wants to do to Google!
There's a reason this is XP only and that is because it's designed for people to help out their less computer literate relatives who have just purchased a computer and give them a way to download most of the important 'essentials' and keep them up to date farily easily.
People who use Linux are not their target, Linux distributions come with all the apps you could need and very few newbies would likely have the option to buy a Linux system.
For them it's almost always WinXP forced down their throats unless they notice these Mac things in the store they bought their iPod - and there's no need for this pack on the mac either - the Mac already comes with a modern web browser, a decent desktop search (since Tiger), the iLife apps for photos, etc.
There's two things wrong with the Google offering and that's all I could see - one is the choice of anti-virus (only free for a limited time and not the most trustworthy name around) and the central updater duplicates the roles that the Firefox and Adobe updaters perform. They should have disabled the individual updates if they were going for a central solution.
The 9 hours a year waiting for travellers at Heathrow I could certainly believe. Problem is all BAA run airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Edinburgh and probably others) are badly run.
If you're travelling from London much better to fly from the smaller London City Airport, smaller means less queues and the checkin for each flight stays open upto 15 minutes before departure. If you travel airlines that let you check in online (KLM and British Airways spring to mind) then as long as you reach the gate before boarding then you're fine. As it's a small airport it doesn't take long to get to the gate.
Of course being a small airport means less flights, but if there's a destination not served by London City then you can fly KLM via Amsterdam and get to a lot of worldwide destinations, trust me, even with the transfer at Amsterdam Schiphol it's still a lot less hassle than the nightmare that is Heathrow.
It's an excellent example of Windows commitment to standards and interoperability. He must have been using Outlook to reply to this message. If you type:) into a Microsoft Office application it 'helpfully' converts it into a WingDings smiley which happens to be the letter J.
Of course this means anyone not running on a Microsoft platform will see an out of place J instead. So obviously the editor here copied and pasted his replies and lost the MS formatting.
It was planned to have an MSI installer for the 1.1 release, so I assume that still applies for 1.5 particularly as they're aiming this release as more suitable for the enterprise
From the original poster: The fix that they've decided on, which may or may not come someday, is a page zoom feature that zooms everything. (Raise your hand if you love sideways scrolling.)
Different people work on Firefox than work on Thunderbird and lightning. Most of the developers work on whatever interests them or wherever their particular skills lie.
People working on Firefox is not stopping those who want to work on other projects doing so (and Thunderbird is coming on well too, just a little bit more slowly than Firefox)
They do have a preference where you can set the minimum font size which would make things easy to read for you while not zooming text that's already big enough to read.
Look in prefereces/options for fonts and there's a pref to set the minimum font size. It's not like it's a hidden pref or anything it's in the standard dialog
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One of the main advantages of 1.5 is the improved update system. Everyone knows that the 1.0 one was not up to scratch that's why they spent a lot of effort improving it. Based on current nightlies I'd say they've done a good job.
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IE is free
Free as in must pay for Windows to legally use it! They scrapped their UNIX versions ages ago (yes they used to support Solaris and IRIX) and the Mac version when Safari was released.
It now looks like what was 1.1 will be 1.5, what was 1.5 will be 2.0 and what was 2.0 will be 3.0
This makes some sense, a lot more work on what was 1.1 has taken place (mainly on the automatic update and enterprise deployment side) so it warrants a 1.5 designation.
Whether 2.0 and 3.0 will be significantly different then we won't know until the time but as long as the product is good people will use it. I used it back in the 0.x days (before it was even called Firefox) and it still beat IE and the Mozilla suite in many ways. So whatever version numbering scheme they use is fine by me.
What's worrying about Microsoft is they still try to spin things to make it look like the good guys to all people. That link you posted about the article where MS decide to drop their support for a gay equality bill resulted in the legislation not going through. So what happens, to keep their gay employees happy monkey boy promises to vote for such legislation next time, of course if such legislation ever comes about again then they'll just be convinced to drop support yet again.
Motto - don't trust MS, use their track record as an example.
I know, I meant the built in functionality. I know a lot of people don't know about PDFcreator and pay a fortune for the full version of acrobat just for this functionality
Not bad. 3 out of 6 new features are copied from Opera
So what? Some people prefer the Opera UI and will use that as their default browser, others prefer the way Firefox is designed. What's wrong with copying the best features off other browsers? There's not one browser fits all.
I think Firefox is better designed for users that want a relatively simple interface whereas Opera comes packed with just about everything but the kitchen sink (it'll be in version 9.0).
So to me Firefox and Opera appeal to different people. They both support standards and provide competition to the browser world so I like to see both grow.
I think the fix addresses the root of the problem, check with these forum sites and see if they now display correctly too. If they don't then it's a good opportunity to try out the new reporter tool in Firefox.
Not sure that is fully implemented yet (as there's no easy way to test) but this feature will be in for 1.1 so making updates a lot smaller and easier (not that the full download updates were that big anyway)
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One of the Mozilla related blogs I read suggested filling search logs with useless data if everyone does this in the same query then both the search engines and the government will know we don't find this acceptable.
Real player is not installed by default fortunately.
The Google toolbar for firefox only adds a few items that I consider useful, however as this toolbar integrates seamlessly with Firefox toolbar customisation then you can just move the items you need into other areas of the screen and hide the toolbar itself.
e.g. the Google search box on the toolbar incorporates Google suggest, so I've customised the toolbar and removed the Firefox built in search box and replaced it with the Google one.
I also like to see the pagerank of sites that I help develop so I've dragged the pagerank icon to the left of the throbber on the menubar (Linux and Windows) or to the left of the personal toolbar (on Mac) so I can see it at all times. Then I hide the rest of the toolbar.
To customise toolbars simply right click on any area of the toolbars that don't have any other context menu (e.g. reload, stop, home buttons) or select View > Toolbars > Customize.
Google are also offering $1 per download to members of their adsense program who put a link to download Firefox with the Google toolbar on their sites. For Google it is good to encourage use of Firefox as Firefox will not default to MSN search like IE does - and remember what Ballmer wants to do to Google!
There's a reason this is XP only and that is because it's designed for people to help out their less computer literate relatives who have just purchased a computer and give them a way to download most of the important 'essentials' and keep them up to date farily easily.
People who use Linux are not their target, Linux distributions come with all the apps you could need and very few newbies would likely have the option to buy a Linux system.
For them it's almost always WinXP forced down their throats unless they notice these Mac things in the store they bought their iPod - and there's no need for this pack on the mac either - the Mac already comes with a modern web browser, a decent desktop search (since Tiger), the iLife apps for photos, etc.
There's two things wrong with the Google offering and that's all I could see - one is the choice of anti-virus (only free for a limited time and not the most trustworthy name around) and the central updater duplicates the roles that the Firefox and Adobe updaters perform. They should have disabled the individual updates if they were going for a central solution.
> 9 hours a year... Yeesh.
> Makes me glad I don't fly.
The 9 hours a year waiting for travellers at Heathrow I could certainly believe. Problem is all BAA run airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Edinburgh and probably others) are badly run.
If you're travelling from London much better to fly from the smaller London City Airport, smaller means less queues and the checkin for each flight stays open upto 15 minutes before departure. If you travel airlines that let you check in online (KLM and British Airways spring to mind) then as long as you reach the gate before boarding then you're fine. As it's a small airport it doesn't take long to get to the gate.
Of course being a small airport means less flights, but if there's a destination not served by London City then you can fly KLM via Amsterdam and get to a lot of worldwide destinations, trust me, even with the transfer at Amsterdam Schiphol it's still a lot less hassle than the nightmare that is Heathrow.
It's an excellent example of Windows commitment to standards and interoperability. He must have been using Outlook to reply to this message. If you type :) into a Microsoft Office application it 'helpfully' converts it into a WingDings smiley which happens to be the letter J.
Of course this means anyone not running on a Microsoft platform will see an out of place J instead. So obviously the editor here copied and pasted his replies and lost the MS formatting.
It was planned to have an MSI installer for the 1.1 release, so I assume that still applies for 1.5 particularly as they're aiming this release as more suitable for the enterprise
This is just a version number change. It'd be released the same time whether it is called 1.1, 1.5, 2.0, 8.0 or Mozilla XP
From the original poster:
The fix that they've decided on, which may or may not come someday, is a page zoom feature that zooms everything. (Raise your hand if you love sideways scrolling.)
So they don't want opera style zooming
Different people work on Firefox than work on Thunderbird and lightning. Most of the developers work on whatever interests them or wherever their particular skills lie.
People working on Firefox is not stopping those who want to work on other projects doing so (and Thunderbird is coming on well too, just a little bit more slowly than Firefox)
They do have a preference where you can set the minimum font size which would make things easy to read for you while not zooming text that's already big enough to read.
Look in prefereces/options for fonts and there's a pref to set the minimum font size. It's not like it's a hidden pref or anything it's in the standard dialog
One of the main advantages of 1.5 is the improved update system. Everyone knows that the 1.0 one was not up to scratch that's why they spent a lot of effort improving it. Based on current nightlies I'd say they've done a good job.
Free as in must pay for Windows to legally use it!
They scrapped their UNIX versions ages ago (yes they used to support Solaris and IRIX) and the Mac version when Safari was released.
It now looks like what was 1.1 will be 1.5, what was 1.5 will be 2.0 and what was 2.0 will be 3.0
This makes some sense, a lot more work on what was 1.1 has taken place (mainly on the automatic update and enterprise deployment side) so it warrants a 1.5 designation.
Whether 2.0 and 3.0 will be significantly different then we won't know until the time but as long as the product is good people will use it. I used it back in the 0.x days (before it was even called Firefox) and it still beat IE and the Mozilla suite in many ways. So whatever version numbering scheme they use is fine by me.
A great day for the UK (London getting the olympics) and great for the rest of Europe too (this bill overturned)
Motto - don't trust MS, use their track record as an example.
I know, I meant the built in functionality. I know a lot of people don't know about PDFcreator and pay a fortune for the full version of acrobat just for this functionality
This can export to PDF? I'd have thought it more useful for them to add this feature to MS Office. Hopefully that feature will follow.
And the porn industry will be quick to register blow.jobs a lot sooner than they register one of these
Seems odd to see 'XXX' hanging from a town hall, probably more than a few tourists thought it was a brothel.
Here's the official roadmap of Mozilla apps.
Well it's the blog of the guy that does the roadmap anyway, it'll appear on the official roadmap pages soon.
Not bad. 3 out of 6 new features are copied from Opera
So what? Some people prefer the Opera UI and will use that as their default browser, others prefer the way Firefox is designed. What's wrong with copying the best features off other browsers? There's not one browser fits all.
I think Firefox is better designed for users that want a relatively simple interface whereas Opera comes packed with just about everything but the kitchen sink (it'll be in version 9.0).
So to me Firefox and Opera appeal to different people. They both support standards and provide competition to the browser world so I like to see both grow.
I think the fix addresses the root of the problem, check with these forum sites and see if they now display correctly too. If they don't then it's a good opportunity to try out the new reporter tool in Firefox.
It's in the Help menu under Report Broken Website
They are, it's the parent post that got it wrong.
Feature off by default as it's got some bugs at the moment, see my earlier comments on how to enable it.
Not sure if they plan to implement the feature the parent mentioned in safari
Not sure that is fully implemented yet (as there's no easy way to test) but this feature will be in for 1.1 so making updates a lot smaller and easier (not that the full download updates were that big anyway)