Most of the problems you describe have been fixed during the Aviary nightly cycle after 0.9.1, which was released to repair many of the most critical flaws in Firefox's new Extension Manager - things like Bug 246014.
As for installing extensions globally, use the -install-global-extension switch, like this:/path/to/firefox -install-global-extension/path/to/extension.xpi
I started with RH 5.2, which means that graphical file management on Linux for me is a non-starter. Thus I turned to XFce 4.0.5 at www.xfce.org, and haven't looked back.
For all you moderate to advanced folks out there who want the simplicity of managers like FVWM combined with modern features and GTK2, you ought to take a look at XFce 4.0.5. And the best part is that there are a wealth of plugins available for XFce's panel, appropriately referred to as goodies.
Why? The only chance Opera has to compete with Internet Explorer and Mozilla on the desktop is by inventing and adding new features to their browser.
Opera has many great coders and inventors working for them, such as Håkon Wium Lie the creator of CSS. How can mozilla compete with such a experienced and professional team?
With ease. Mozilla has some of the same experienced professionals working for them that Opera does.
Opera has included many features in their browser, like email, newsreader, rss feed and irc, and still their installer is only 3.5 Mb, and the fastest browser out there.
So? Mozilla has those features available as well in the form of extensions, and who cares about download size except for dial-up users?
Indeed - and how likely is it that a visually-designed program will be even worse than a text program, considering that most programs will end up "looking pretty" in the program editor but act positively horrible for the enduser...
Your company's stance on the GUI toolkits available for Linux is a good one, and makes a lot of sense - as you said, Novell should not standardise on one particular toolkit.
So how could the keynote speech have been misconstrued?
I believe so - prefixes on leading elemental names are usually missing. Take H3PO4, phosphoric acid - it's elemental name is hydrogen phosphate, not trihydrogen phosphate.
Either way though I think it's hairsplitting, really.
You can download an official nightly build, built fresh from the current CVS trunk, from the Mozilla FTP server. If security bugs come to light that concern you, all you have to do is wait for a new nightly build containing the bugfixes and download it.
I will concede that there has been some upheaval and surprise in the business world due to this lawsuit, but I don't call it "enormous chaos." Despite the FUD and the lawsuits and the dupe of the media, Linux is still being enhanced and improved. And most importantly, it's still being adopted.
Now, if SCO were to win, THAT would be chaos indeed.
There are extensions to make the toolbar more flexible.
document.getElementByID is the standard, and the Gecko DOM is not likely to ever support another method - even if Gecko wanted to contain document.all, because MS never published HOW it implemented document.all, Gecko's version would be buggy, slow and most likely worse than IE's implementation.
This is a known issue, and the developers are quite well aware of the fact that Mozilla is not very efficient in this department. Firefox 1.0 will not have this problem; Firefox 0.9 will probably have modifications to reduce its effects somewhat.
It has a history/favorites sidebar - in Firefox the History opens in the sidebar and the Bookmarks can be shown in the sidebar as well. In fact, in Firefox bookmarks can be LOADED into the sidebar.
Download the GTK2+XFT Mozilla builds from mozilla.org - they should be prominently listed in the download directories that you got the GTK1 1.5 and 1.6 builds from.
Yahoo has been talking about dumping Google for a real long time now, so I doubt Google is really surprised. Besides, with the recent update to their index that they just made, I have a feeling that Google is not going to succumb just yet.
I've often wondered about this as well. Considering the elevated requirements of most software packages and games written for the current top OS, you'd think that the person buying it would have a DVD drive. It sounds like a reasonable assumption for the companies to make.
How much space do they use for caching?
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With 6 billion pages indexed and cached, and maybe an average of 50K per page (which is probably pretty conservative - it's probably twice that in some cases), that's nearly 30TB, IICIC!!!
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Most of the problems you describe have been fixed during the Aviary nightly cycle after 0.9.1, which was released to repair many of the most critical flaws in Firefox's new Extension Manager - things like Bug 246014.
/path/to/firefox -install-global-extension /path/to/extension.xpi
As for installing extensions globally, use the -install-global-extension switch, like this:
This is a bug, and has been fixed by Ben Goodger.
Or, if you prefer a more minimalist approach, you can use either Tabbrowser Preferences or TBP Lite.e fs/
http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/site/TheOneKEA/tabpr
Do this: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox -install-global-extension /path/to/adblock.xpi
The new Aviary branch extension manager no longer directly supports program directory installation, so you have to use this switch.
This is why I love my Nokia 3410. It's too simple to get easily hacked.
Sometimes progress is not an advantage.
I started with RH 5.2, which means that graphical file management on Linux for me is a non-starter. Thus I turned to XFce 4.0.5 at www.xfce.org, and haven't looked back.
For all you moderate to advanced folks out there who want the simplicity of managers like FVWM combined with modern features and GTK2, you ought to take a look at XFce 4.0.5. And the best part is that there are a wealth of plugins available for XFce's panel, appropriately referred to as goodies.
I think Opera is the answear.
Why? The only chance Opera has to compete with Internet Explorer and Mozilla on the desktop is by inventing and adding new features to their browser.
Opera has many great coders and inventors working for them, such as Håkon Wium Lie the creator of CSS. How can mozilla compete with such a experienced and professional team?
With ease. Mozilla has some of the same experienced professionals working for them that Opera does.
Opera has included many features in their browser, like email, newsreader, rss feed and irc, and still their installer is only 3.5 Mb, and the fastest browser out there.
So? Mozilla has those features available as well in the form of extensions, and who cares about download size except for dial-up users?
http://www.xe.com/ucc says that US$699 is CAD$928.57.
;-)
I wonder which exchange rate Calgary would choose
That sound suspiciously like some of the things said by some OSS advocates: "Software is free, it's the content created with it that has value."
Indeed - and how likely is it that a visually-designed program will be even worse than a text program, considering that most programs will end up "looking pretty" in the program editor but act positively horrible for the enduser...
Your company's stance on the GUI toolkits available for Linux is a good one, and makes a lot of sense - as you said, Novell should not standardise on one particular toolkit.
So how could the keynote speech have been misconstrued?
I believe so - prefixes on leading elemental names are usually missing. Take H3PO4, phosphoric acid - it's elemental name is hydrogen phosphate, not trihydrogen phosphate.
Either way though I think it's hairsplitting, really.
No.
You can download an official nightly build, built fresh from the current CVS trunk, from the Mozilla FTP server. If security bugs come to light that concern you, all you have to do is wait for a new nightly build containing the bugfixes and download it.
It's possible - but if it ever appeared on the Internet, a Googlebot has probably already vacuumed it up.
If this turns out to be true, Microsoft is indeed fucked. If it isn't, then it's probably another attempt to discredit the OSS community.
I will concede that there has been some upheaval and surprise in the business world due to this lawsuit, but I don't call it "enormous chaos." Despite the FUD and the lawsuits and the dupe of the media, Linux is still being enhanced and improved. And most importantly, it's still being adopted.
Now, if SCO were to win, THAT would be chaos indeed.
However, in this case Mozilla is an excellent platform that includes a decent web browser.
Firefox can be likened to vi in that aspect. Or even ed.
There are extensions to make the toolbar more flexible.
document.getElementByID is the standard, and the Gecko DOM is not likely to ever support another method - even if Gecko wanted to contain document.all, because MS never published HOW it implemented document.all, Gecko's version would be buggy, slow and most likely worse than IE's implementation.
If you don't like bloat, use Firefox.
Having never used Thunderbird, no comment.
This is a known issue, and the developers are quite well aware of the fact that Mozilla is not very efficient in this department. Firefox 1.0 will not have this problem; Firefox 0.9 will probably have modifications to reduce its effects somewhat.
It has a history/favorites sidebar - in Firefox the History opens in the sidebar and the Bookmarks can be shown in the sidebar as well. In fact, in Firefox bookmarks can be LOADED into the sidebar.
Download the GTK2+XFT Mozilla builds from mozilla.org - they should be prominently listed in the download directories that you got the GTK1 1.5 and 1.6 builds from.
Fear, laziness, arrogance and greed.
Define human decency. And then get back to us.
Yahoo has been talking about dumping Google for a real long time now, so I doubt Google is really surprised. Besides, with the recent update to their index that they just made, I have a feeling that Google is not going to succumb just yet.
I've often wondered about this as well. Considering the elevated requirements of most software packages and games written for the current top OS, you'd think that the person buying it would have a DVD drive. It sounds like a reasonable assumption for the companies to make.
With 6 billion pages indexed and cached, and maybe an average of 50K per page (which is probably pretty conservative - it's probably twice that in some cases), that's nearly 30TB, IICIC!!!
The hard disk and RAID folks must LOVE Google....