I doubt Slashdot and K5 would allow you to include MathML even if they were XHTML sites. Large, public forums have to limit what tags, attributes, urls, etc they allow, and there are probably some tags in MathML that are not safe to allow on public sites.
remove redirects - turns those annoying redirecting links that only redirect you to the correct site 20% of the time into real links hide visited links - most useful for TGPs that use images (thumbnails) to link to galleries, since it's often hard to tell whether an image link is visited or not. linked images - opens a window showing all the images linked to by the current page increment, decrement - change the last number in the URL by 1 with 1 click. make numbered list of links - for when you want to use increment/decrement but some pages in the sequence are missing zoom images in, zoom images out zap - fixes text/background/link colors and removes some common annoyances go to referer - lets you go "back" one page after opening a link (e.g. to an image) in a new tab
User style sheet rules
Look for "Always show a border around image links" on this page. It puts a solid blue border around unvisited image links and a dashed purple border around visited image links. The Mozilla version does not interfere with site layouts.
You can also use user style sheet rules to mark or hide links to known-junk domains. This may save you slightly more time than adding those domains to your hosts file.
Extensions
linky - includes "open selected links in new tabs" leech - adds ui for wget-type stuff
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Why is this the last sentence of the article? Instant messaging interoperability will never be fair unless the major players participate in the creation of and implement open standards.
While backspace is useful, it has a reasonably fast counterpart in handwriting: erasing. When I write without a computer, and even sometimes when I speak, I find that what I miss are ctrl+left, ctrl+shift+right, and sometimes clipboard commands. I don't think up sentences linearly enough to be able to write them without using ctrl+left (etc) several times per sentence. (Some people wonder why most of my typos in AIM are missing or extra words rather than misspelled words...)
Re:THAT'S considered an acceptible release bug???
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Double right clicking on a page can disable the keyboard.
That's bug 30841 and it was fixed a year and a half ago. It's still in the release notes because the wrong bug number was listed in the release notes, and the semiautomatic check for fixed bugs (which I believe involves Asa using the "collect buglinks" bookmarklet on the release notes and scanning for fixed bugs) didn't catch it.
Please don't judge Mozilla's stability based on the release notes. Instead, judge Mozilla's stability based on how often it crashes when you use it. (Some Mozilla developers have access to MTBF statistics from Talkback, but that's most useful for determining the relative stability of different Mozilla releases.)
Re:Ads are easily blocked
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Aren't you worried that Gator is going to force an upgrade on you that will prevent you from disabling their ads?
Edit->Inline Find. Then when you hit CTRL+F you can just start typing. It was an unofficial option since Opera 6, maybe earlier.
How do you follow a link you find while doing inline find in Opera? I tried Tab, Enter, Ctrl+Down, and none of them worked. The great thing about typeahead find in Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird is that it lets you follow links from the keyboard with very little typing.
Mozilla and MF also let you choose whether to search for all text or just link text (press '/' first or just start typing), but that's not as important as being able to follow links once you find them.
It's the little things that you miss when you run seperate apps, for example... having a single password manager...
You're joking, right? I've had to help several users in #mozillazine who couldn't figure out how to delete their incorrect mail password in Mozilla (Seamonkey) MailNews because they didn't think to look through the dozens of passwords in Password Manager to find their stored mail password. I can't think of any way it's useful to be able to access passwords for the browser and mail client in the same window.
Google Search doesn't show hits exactly in the order of page rank. Relevance and other factors also affect order. My biggest page (the one that is my Slashdot URL) is PR7, but there are words on the page for which a lower-rank page beats me, because they're more relevant for that word. Relevance includes how many times the word appears on the page, the HTML context in which it is used, whether pages that link link using the search terms, and the order and nearness of the words in a multi-word search without quotes.
It's the decision to make untrusted data (emails, et al) able to execute turing-complete languages that has brought on the onslaught of internet virii.
There's nothing wrong with languages embedded in documents being turing-complete. Turing-completeness has to do with what a program can compute. A language can be turing-complete and yet not allow, or even not be able to express, reading data from your hard drive, making system-level calls, or sending data over a the Internet. For example, JavaScript can read and modify the document it is in, but it is restricted from doing the same to other documents except in certain cases.
The problem arises when programs in those languages are allowed to make system calls, run other programs, etc. And, to a lesser extent, when a hang in a program embedded in a document causes the interpreter or compiled code to hang (since all turing-complete languages can hang).
I've never had a problem with my web search results being "polluted" with irrelevant blog posts, but I have had a problem where a blog post that matches my search has scrolled off of the blog's main page. Instead of reducing the rank of blogs, I think Google should try to return the correct archive link for the front-page post that matches my search.
Mozilla 1.4 beta includes a security fix to prevent web pages from loading XBL from file: URLs (bug 200691, fixed). Unfortunately, the fix also prevents user style sheets from making web pages load XBL files from file: URLs (bug 204140), which affects some users of my XBL Flash blocker (blocks Flash using a placeholder that you can click to play a particular Flash animation).
If you saved flash.xml to disk and used a file: URL for flash.xml in userContent.css, you need to change userContent.css to load flash.xml from a local web server or from the original location on www.cs.hmc.edu instead. Otherwise, Flash won't appear at all (not even a click-to-play placeholder), and you'll see this if you open the JavaScript Console:
"Security Error: Content at http://www.shockwave.com/sw/home/ [or another URL with Flash] may not load or link to file:///C:/.../flash.xml#obj."
And that's just the beginning - Shuster has a long list of pending patents, including one for pop-up audio ads that cannot be turned off.
In other words, he has a patent on a way to exploit a security hole that exists in one or more web browsers. Will he sue browser makers that fix the security hole?
Running Java in a separate process might also solve the problem where Mozilla hangs for 10 seconds when it loads the Java plugin. That would be a good thing and only people who count CPU cycles would consider it "slower". Bug 86634.
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Patriotically,
Octagonmost
Upholding the American lay of wife?
And to block popups in Mozilla Firebird, I do nothing, because they're blocked by default.
No, that's Google Mentalplex.
I doubt Slashdot and K5 would allow you to include MathML even if they were XHTML sites. Large, public forums have to limit what tags, attributes, urls, etc they allow, and there are probably some tags in MathML that are not safe to allow on public sites.
More good stuff for porn link farms (aka TGPs):
Bookmarklets (mini-extensions)
remove redirects - turns those annoying redirecting links that only redirect you to the correct site 20% of the time into real links
hide visited links - most useful for TGPs that use images (thumbnails) to link to galleries, since it's often hard to tell whether an image link is visited or not.
linked images - opens a window showing all the images linked to by the current page
increment, decrement - change the last number in the URL by 1 with 1 click.
make numbered list of links - for when you want to use increment/decrement but some pages in the sequence are missing
zoom images in, zoom images out
zap - fixes text/background/link colors and removes some common annoyances
go to referer - lets you go "back" one page after opening a link (e.g. to an image) in a new tab
User style sheet rules
Look for "Always show a border around image links" on this page. It puts a solid blue border around unvisited image links and a dashed purple border around visited image links. The Mozilla version does not interfere with site layouts.
You can also use user style sheet rules to mark or hide links to known-junk domains. This may save you slightly more time than adding those domains to your hosts file.
Extensions
linky - includes "open selected links in new tabs"
leech - adds ui for wget-type stuff
That's what I did before I wrote the "click to play flash" XBL. Since homestarrunner.com doesn't have pop-up ads, it wasn't a big deal.
Trenchcoats that burst into flame when used to conceal theft of 3 pens from the office.
Pants that burst into flame when you're dishonest.
America Online did not respond to requests for comment.
Why is this the last sentence of the article? Instant messaging interoperability will never be fair unless the major players participate in the creation of and implement open standards.
While backspace is useful, it has a reasonably fast counterpart in handwriting: erasing. When I write without a computer, and even sometimes when I speak, I find that what I miss are ctrl+left, ctrl+shift+right, and sometimes clipboard commands. I don't think up sentences linearly enough to be able to write them without using ctrl+left (etc) several times per sentence. (Some people wonder why most of my typos in AIM are missing or extra words rather than misspelled words...)
Interesting article on this subject: Will Mathematica rot my students' brains?
It has always been my belief that copyrights on software should be signifigantly shorter then that on music or litature.
What about music in video games?
Did you notice that the lizard supports more bookmarklets than IE?
Yes, but keep in mind that the author of most of those bookmarklets (me) is a Mozilla contributor.
I was going for "funny". But thanks anyway.
But how do you explain university?
Other good searches:
real browser
nerds
Double right clicking on a page can disable the keyboard.
That's bug 30841 and it was fixed a year and a half ago. It's still in the release notes because the wrong bug number was listed in the release notes, and the semiautomatic check for fixed bugs (which I believe involves Asa using the "collect buglinks" bookmarklet on the release notes and scanning for fixed bugs) didn't catch it.
Please don't judge Mozilla's stability based on the release notes. Instead, judge Mozilla's stability based on how often it crashes when you use it. (Some Mozilla developers have access to MTBF statistics from Talkback, but that's most useful for determining the relative stability of different Mozilla releases.)
Aren't you worried that Gator is going to force an upgrade on you that will prevent you from disabling their ads?
Edit->Inline Find. Then when you hit CTRL+F you can just start typing. It was an unofficial option since Opera 6, maybe earlier.
How do you follow a link you find while doing inline find in Opera? I tried Tab, Enter, Ctrl+Down, and none of them worked. The great thing about typeahead find in Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird is that it lets you follow links from the keyboard with very little typing.
Mozilla and MF also let you choose whether to search for all text or just link text (press '/' first or just start typing), but that's not as important as being able to follow links once you find them.
It's the little things that you miss when you run seperate apps, for example ... having a single password manager...
You're joking, right? I've had to help several users in #mozillazine who couldn't figure out how to delete their incorrect mail password in Mozilla (Seamonkey) MailNews because they didn't think to look through the dozens of passwords in Password Manager to find their stored mail password. I can't think of any way it's useful to be able to access passwords for the browser and mail client in the same window.
Google Search doesn't show hits exactly in the order of page rank. Relevance and other factors also affect order. My biggest page (the one that is my Slashdot URL) is PR7, but there are words on the page for which a lower-rank page beats me, because they're more relevant for that word. Relevance includes how many times the word appears on the page, the HTML context in which it is used, whether pages that link link using the search terms, and the order and nearness of the words in a multi-word search without quotes.
I don't know, but I agree that it would be broken if it didn't at least check for an x flag on the .ps file.
It's the decision to make untrusted data (emails, et al) able to execute turing-complete languages that has brought on the onslaught of internet virii.
There's nothing wrong with languages embedded in documents being turing-complete. Turing-completeness has to do with what a program can compute. A language can be turing-complete and yet not allow, or even not be able to express, reading data from your hard drive, making system-level calls, or sending data over a the Internet. For example, JavaScript can read and modify the document it is in, but it is restricted from doing the same to other documents except in certain cases.
The problem arises when programs in those languages are allowed to make system calls, run other programs, etc. And, to a lesser extent, when a hang in a program embedded in a document causes the interpreter or compiled code to hang (since all turing-complete languages can hang).
I've never had a problem with my web search results being "polluted" with irrelevant blog posts, but I have had a problem where a blog post that matches my search has scrolled off of the blog's main page. Instead of reducing the rank of blogs, I think Google should try to return the correct archive link for the front-page post that matches my search.
Mozilla 1.4 beta includes a security fix to prevent web pages from loading XBL from file: URLs (bug 200691, fixed). Unfortunately, the fix also prevents user style sheets from making web pages load XBL files from file: URLs (bug 204140), which affects some users of my XBL Flash blocker (blocks Flash using a placeholder that you can click to play a particular Flash animation).
If you saved flash.xml to disk and used a file: URL for flash.xml in userContent.css, you need to change userContent.css to load flash.xml from a local web server or from the original location on www.cs.hmc.edu instead. Otherwise, Flash won't appear at all (not even a click-to-play placeholder), and you'll see this if you open the JavaScript Console:
"Security Error: Content at http://www.shockwave.com/sw/home/ [or another URL with Flash] may not load or link to file:///C:/.../flash.xml#obj."
And that's just the beginning - Shuster has a long list of pending patents, including one for pop-up audio ads that cannot be turned off.
In other words, he has a patent on a way to exploit a security hole that exists in one or more web browsers. Will he sue browser makers that fix the security hole?
Running Java in a separate process might also solve the problem where Mozilla hangs for 10 seconds when it loads the Java plugin. That would be a good thing and only people who count CPU cycles would consider it "slower". Bug 86634.