If you liked Dion's Flash blocker, you might also like this one, which also lives in your user style sheet but lets you click blocked Flash to play it. (You'll have to remove Dion's rule for Flash for my rule to work.)
Here's a better user stylesheet rule that blocks all Flash but lets you click any blocked Flash animation to play it. It's compatible with your idea of completely unblocking certain Flash (so you don't even have to click)... I think "-moz-binding: none" will undo the binding.
In a table-based layout, it's necessary to do something to prevent the table from being expanded by a single comment. Pages get expanded all the time on the phbBB and BestBBS forums I visit, and that's just from pasted URLs, not trolls.
Slashdot could fix the problem by doing one of the following:
* Switching to a CSS-based layout and disabling the space-adding "feature". In a CSS-based layout, a single comment can go create a horizontal scrollbar without affecting where other comments wrap.
* Inserting nonstandard but widely supported WBR tags instead of spaces. WBR tags are optional line breaks and copy as nothing.
By the way, the text ads that sometimes appear at the top of Slashdot stories (where banners usually appear) are powered by Google. The ads are targeted based on the content of the article and maybe the comments.
"Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
Do you know how uplifting it is to receive a hand-written letter? Several pages of writing, enough to make the post stamp and trip to the post office worth it? Try it sometimes...
If we don't receive letters normally, what do you mean by "try it sometimes"? Do you mean we should send ourselves letters?
If I select the third option in the dropdown next to the search box, I get a bunch of English-language sites with the same search phrase. The dropdown probably lets you select the language or region to search (I don't know Chinese).
That change wasn't "gratuitous". It was made to reduce the chance of accidentally clicking "close other tabs" while trying to click "close tab" (in bug 191826), without removing the "close other tabs" command completely (which was the initial fix, I think in bug 103354). If jag decides the change didn't help enough, he'll try something else.
This type of change temporarily sucks for people who download every version of Mozilla, but it's better in the long run and it's better for people who only use major versions (such as Netscape).
test styles (type CSS rules; it applies them immediately)
zap style sheets
view style sheets
view scripts
view variables
generated source
partial source (not as good as "view selection source" in Mozilla's context menu)
show blocks
ancestors (makes status bar show what you're hovering over, in the format "BODY > DIV#content > DIV.blog > DIV.blogbody > P")
make link (create HTML to link to a page)
show named anchors
You can do many of these things with the DOM Inspector or JS Debugger, but boomkarklets usually require fewer clicks and are easier to learn. All of these bookmarklets work in Mozilla, and many of them also work in IE or Opera or both.
Web developers might also find these validation bookmarklets and keywords bookmarklets for scripters useful.
As another poster mentioned, the program these students are being sued over is a server that scans a Windows network and allows users to search. My 700-student college, Mudd, used to have a similar web server ("Muddster"), but it was taken down. The version of the story I heard is that school administration had it taken down because students from neighboring colleges (but not complete outsiders) could search and download through it. A friend just put up a replacement, called M2M, which does not allow downloading through the server. So far M2M is a bit slow for me.
In the meantime, I'm happy with Sharescan, a Windows program that scans Windows networks without the help of a server. It's a little annoying that Sharescan has to scan the entire network each time I run it and that searches don't include computers that are offline, but the speed is great and I love being able to click "Open Location" to open the folder containing a search result in Windows Explorer. I fear graduation, because I'll have to return to using unreliable P2P networks for my music pirating needs.
Why are so many users reluctant to call clear-cut usability problems "bugs"? Is it because you're not sure what the best behavior is, even though you know the current behavior is incorrect?
You're hitting 28586, 103720, 104778, 123913, and 121209. Two of those are unarguably bugs.
Opening multiple bookmarks - If I have five news sites I visit listed in their own bookmark folder in Opera, I can select "Open all folder items", and it opens each bookmark in a new tab.
Middle-click on a folder on your personal toolbar in Phoenix. Or left-click on the folder and select the "Open in tabs" link at the bottom.
The right way to do it is to first make p2p music sharing unnecessary by providing a convenient way to download music legally, then enforce the laws that make it illegal.
How many of us refrain from using our real email addresses in public forums or in correspondence with companies because of a fear of receiving more spam?
I agree completely.
Other factors that should also be considered are accidentally deleting/filtering "real" e-mail, having to change e-mail addresses often, and time spent setting up filters. I'd guess that every one of those factors is bigger than the time spent deleting individual spam messages.
In an "end user" application such as a web browser, most bugs that could be (and often are) dismissed as "pilot error" are useful for figuring out UI problems. Especially if you consider that the reporter filed a bug -- they're probably not an idiot, and they probably spent at least a little time thinking about the problem before reporting it.
I use the short bug-reporting form instead of using the guided form because I'm familiar with the terms and don't like having the fields so spread out. (I've reported 1013 bugs.)
What might be useful is if the textarea on the short form were filled in with a template instead of starting out blank. For example:
Build: [Filled in automatically with "Phoenix 03/12.08 on Windows XP"]
Steps to reproduce: 1. [Filled in with "Go to http://..." if I filled in the URL field, or "Load the testcase" if I'm uploading a testcase.] 2.
Result: Expected:
If I had that kind of template available, I'd use the steps-result-expected format more often (when I might put the same information in a short paragraph instead), and I'd include my build ID even in cases where I think it's unlikely that the build ID matters.
If there was a search tool akin to Google for searching accurately through large bug databases where users could easily find bugs then the issue of duplicates would be solved almost entirely.
There is an alternative to the overcomplicated "Search for bugs" page. It's called Bugzilla QuickSearch. I use it for the vast majority of my bugzilla searches. I even have a Bugzilla QuickSearch textbox on my start page (along with a Google search box, etc).
I think "Search for bugs" should be renamed to "Advanced search" and QuickSearch should be made more prominent.
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There's probably a system call that turns writable memory into executable memory that self-modifying programs can call.
If you liked Dion's Flash blocker, you might also like this one, which also lives in your user style sheet but lets you click blocked Flash to play it. (You'll have to remove Dion's rule for Flash for my rule to work.)
Here's a better user stylesheet rule that blocks all Flash but lets you click any blocked Flash animation to play it. It's compatible with your idea of completely unblocking certain Flash (so you don't even have to click)... I think "-moz-binding: none" will undo the binding.
In a table-based layout, it's necessary to do something to prevent the table from being expanded by a single comment. Pages get expanded all the time on the phbBB and BestBBS forums I visit, and that's just from pasted URLs, not trolls.
Slashdot could fix the problem by doing one of the following:
* Switching to a CSS-based layout and disabling the space-adding "feature". In a CSS-based layout, a single comment can go create a horizontal scrollbar without affecting where other comments wrap.
* Inserting nonstandard but widely supported WBR tags instead of spaces. WBR tags are optional line breaks and copy as nothing.
By the way, the text ads that sometimes appear at the top of Slashdot stories (where banners usually appear) are powered by Google. The ads are targeted based on the content of the article and maybe the comments.
More proof that there are legal uses for P2P services: the RIAA is using them to send short text messages they wrote, which is perfectly legal.
The Firebird database is #49 on Google for 'open-source database', not that that means anything.
Which end of the internet? There are a lot of them.
Microsoft beat you to it. From IE 6's about box:
"Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
Do you know how uplifting it is to receive a hand-written letter? Several pages of writing, enough to make the post stamp and trip to the post office worth it? Try it sometimes...
If we don't receive letters normally, what do you mean by "try it sometimes"? Do you mean we should send ourselves letters?
Buy me the extra RAM and I'll do it.
With apologies to Blake "buy me a Mac and I'll fix the bug" Ross (Mozilla bugs 75158, 76728, 77758, 81028, 88086, etc).
If I select the third option in the dropdown next to the search box, I get a bunch of English-language sites with the same search phrase. The dropdown probably lets you select the language or region to search (I don't know Chinese).
That change wasn't "gratuitous". It was made to reduce the chance of accidentally clicking "close other tabs" while trying to click "close tab" (in bug 191826), without removing the "close other tabs" command completely (which was the initial fix, I think in bug 103354). If jag decides the change didn't help enough, he'll try something else.
This type of change temporarily sucks for people who download every version of Mozilla, but it's better in the long run and it's better for people who only use major versions (such as Netscape).
Or you can right-click on the pref in about:config.
- shell (type JS statements to evaluate them)
- onerror status
- onerror alert
- test styles (type CSS rules; it applies them immediately)
- zap style sheets
- view style sheets
- view scripts
- view variables
- generated source
- partial source (not as good as "view selection source" in Mozilla's context menu)
- show blocks
- ancestors (makes status bar show what you're hovering over, in the format "BODY > DIV#content > DIV.blog > DIV.blogbody > P")
- make link (create HTML to link to a page)
- show named anchors
You can do many of these things with the DOM Inspector or JS Debugger, but boomkarklets usually require fewer clicks and are easier to learn. All of these bookmarklets work in Mozilla, and many of them also work in IE or Opera or both. Web developers might also find these validation bookmarklets and keywords bookmarklets for scripters useful.At the top of this story, a content-targeted ad supplied by Google:
"Boss Stealing Software? Bust your boss. Report illegal software use." (Link goes to the BSA.)
As another poster mentioned, the program these students are being sued over is a server that scans a Windows network and allows users to search. My 700-student college, Mudd, used to have a similar web server ("Muddster"), but it was taken down. The version of the story I heard is that school administration had it taken down because students from neighboring colleges (but not complete outsiders) could search and download through it. A friend just put up a replacement, called M2M, which does not allow downloading through the server. So far M2M is a bit slow for me.
In the meantime, I'm happy with Sharescan, a Windows program that scans Windows networks without the help of a server. It's a little annoying that Sharescan has to scan the entire network each time I run it and that searches don't include computers that are offline, but the speed is great and I love being able to click "Open Location" to open the folder containing a search result in Windows Explorer. I fear graduation, because I'll have to return to using unreliable P2P networks for my music pirating needs.
Why are so many users reluctant to call clear-cut usability problems "bugs"? Is it because you're not sure what the best behavior is, even though you know the current behavior is incorrect?
You're hitting 28586, 103720, 104778, 123913, and 121209. Two of those are unarguably bugs.
Opening multiple bookmarks - If I have five news sites I visit listed in their own bookmark folder in Opera, I can select "Open all folder items", and it opens each bookmark in a new tab.
Middle-click on a folder on your personal toolbar in Phoenix. Or left-click on the folder and select the "Open in tabs" link at the bottom.
"Gnutella" is mispelled in the specification draft, but not in the title of the Slashdot article. Is that a first?
The right way to do it is to first make p2p music sharing unnecessary by providing a convenient way to download music legally, then enforce the laws that make it illegal.
How many of us refrain from using our real email addresses in public forums or in correspondence with companies because of a fear of receiving more spam?
I agree completely.
Other factors that should also be considered are accidentally deleting/filtering "real" e-mail, having to change e-mail addresses often, and time spent setting up filters. I'd guess that every one of those factors is bigger than the time spent deleting individual spam messages.
In an "end user" application such as a web browser, most bugs that could be (and often are) dismissed as "pilot error" are useful for figuring out UI problems. Especially if you consider that the reporter filed a bug -- they're probably not an idiot, and they probably spent at least a little time thinking about the problem before reporting it.
For an example, look at the dups of bug 143810.
I use the short bug-reporting form instead of using the guided form because I'm familiar with the terms and don't like having the fields so spread out. (I've reported 1013 bugs.)
What might be useful is if the textarea on the short form were filled in with a template instead of starting out blank. For example:
Build: [Filled in automatically with "Phoenix 03/12.08 on Windows XP"]
Steps to reproduce:
1. [Filled in with "Go to http://..." if I filled in the URL field, or "Load the testcase" if I'm uploading a testcase.]
2.
Result:
Expected:
If I had that kind of template available, I'd use the steps-result-expected format more often (when I might put the same information in a short paragraph instead), and I'd include my build ID even in cases where I think it's unlikely that the build ID matters.
If there was a search tool akin to Google for searching accurately through large bug databases where users could easily find bugs then the issue of duplicates would be solved almost entirely.
There is an alternative to the overcomplicated "Search for bugs" page. It's called Bugzilla QuickSearch. I use it for the vast majority of my bugzilla searches. I even have a Bugzilla QuickSearch textbox on my start page (along with a Google search box, etc).
I think "Search for bugs" should be renamed to "Advanced search" and QuickSearch should be made more prominent.