Date: 05/12/05 (Security)    Keywords: browser

Update follows public disclosure of exploit code for two "extremely critical" vulnerabilities in the open-source browser.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Mozilla+releases+Firefox+security+update/2100-1009_22-5704684.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/12/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser

Short videos show people so entranced by the open-source browser, they do things like scream loud enough to crack office walls.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Firefox+video+campaign+gaining+steam/2100-9588_22-5704778.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/13/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, asp

Hmm... so I'm having hard drive issues and I'm not too sure where to turn so I'm hoping someone, somewhere may have a solution, or at least some advice.

I have a pretty small HD, it has 10gb. This is never usually too big of an issue but to my great horror I discovered I only have 750mb of space left on it. I decided to go the logical way and "Add/Remove" some programs that were taking up too much space. I scrolled through everything and found that *gasp* to my horror, Canon Zoombrowser is taking up a whopping 4,500mb!

I thought, "this can't be possible", because well, I don't have any photo files kept there anymore and all the photos I store are in a folder that only has like... 250mb or something. Really, not that many things.

So, I went into C drive and opened up the Zoombrowser folder and there certainly is NOT 4,500mb worth of crap in there. Just your basic program and bits... 100mb tops, if that.

So I've been going crazy, looking in every single program on the computer to find out where the hell all the HD memory has disappeared to! I've checked every folder and nowhere is there THAT much memory used up. Not even all totalled up, could it possibly equate to it.

I was thinking, that perhaps it is in relation to the Windows XP switching users function? I only have one account to log in onto the computer with, and that is an 'administrator' account, but is it possible that there are old files that are hidden, that I can't view, that are from BEFORE I installed XP and began using this logon feature?

I also remember using Windows Media Player and the Playlists section showed up with hundreds of songs that USED to be on the computer but I thought were deleted as I couldn't find their sources? Perhaps this has something to do with it?

There are many theories, however they could all be shite and just a result of my inability to keep from adding too much stuff.

If anyone has ANY idea what I have been rambling on about and has any clue as to where my HD memory has up and gone to, please, please reply or I'll be forced to take severe action and delete The Sims or something! =)

Nah, seriously, I appreciate any advice!


Thank you, domo arigato, merci, danke & tusen takk!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/395115.html

Date: 05/13/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser, web

Opera is beavering away at passing the webstandards.org Acid2 Test, see?

Safari was the first browser to pass the test, albeit it in an internal build, but it looks like Opera could be the first cross-platform browser to pass. (incidentally, is there any word on how far Gecko is progressing with this?)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/opera_browser/33825.html

Date: 05/14/05 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: php, browser, html, java

I have been wondering... How do I pass on some data to a html file given that cookies are disabled on the client's computer, and the server does not support scripting - PHP, Perl, CGI, etc. ??? The problem has to be solved on the client's side.

Let's say we have two files: p1.htm and p2.htm. The JavaScript in p1.htm wants to load p2.htm into the browser. But p1.htm needs to pass certain values to p2.htm. How do you do it?

Here is what I found:

p1.htm will load p2.htm and insert the data into the address field like this:

location.href = 'p2.htm#mydata123';

The JavaScript function in p2.htm will read the "location.href" variable and remove everything that precedes the '#' sign. What's left is "mydata123"!!!

This way, I can pass parameters from one file to the next.

My question is, IS THIS 'LEGAL'?

What the script is doing here is basically tell the browser to load p2.htm and go to LABEL mydata123. Of course, there is no such label in p2.htm, so the browser will just go to the beginning of the page.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/javascript/67112.html

Date: 05/18/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, browser, html, sql, java, tracker

I'm trying to create a javascript click tracker, but I'm having a problem. The setup is very simple so I'll just give the code.

index.html
---------------





A Link



tracker.php simply inserts the url of the link into mysql.

The problem is very strange. Everything works fine if the files served from my local machine. If I upload it to the server things get weird. It doesn't work with firefox from my office (3 different machines and 3 different versions), but it works with firefox from every other place (home, friends, etc). It works fine with IE and Konqueror. Note: I did change localhost in the js function to the proper value for the server. It works if I go directly to the URL that's in the javascript so it seems that that line isn't exucted by my local firefox browsers. Does anyone have an ideas on this? Is there a free click tracker script that any of you know of? (free as in I can see the code)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/200619.html

Date: 05/18/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, html, java

An excellent article describing Blackberry architecture and two application models (The browser-based model or Custom Java Application). The browser-based model allows developers to focus on developing back-end content in a standard markup language, such as the Wireless Markup Language (WML) or the compact Hypertext Markup Language (cHTML). Using existing browsers' client capabilities frees the developer [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-program-the-blackberry-with-j2me/

Date: 05/19/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser

No, that isn't a typo, that's what the comp calls this on the task menu.

I'm not sure why I'm bothering to ask about a rather stupid issue that isn't even causing a problem. But it just pops up SO often, even more than that bloody Links folder that likes to appear in my Favs every day. it's like a Jack in the Box1

Every since I got Japanese language support for my browser (it's for IE but it's working fine on Firefox) I'll always have the keyboard settings on my taskbar, the thing that reads as Internat on the taskbar menu. It's a little box that says En. I right clicked on it to see what this was, and what I discovered is that it makes no sense for it to keep popping up on there. When I looked through the list of languages to set it to, Japanese wasn't even listed. And the tick box to make this not keep popping up on the taskbar was greyed out.

I tried looking for this in MSConfig, but I didn't even see anything new on the list of start-up items, and there was certainly nothing named Internat on there.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/400077.html

Date: 05/19/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

I got an alert box when leaving my Netcape mail account ...



My browser? Firefox 1.0.4

*shakes head*

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/284889.html

Date: 05/19/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser

Just when I thought things weren't going to suddenly get a whole lot more interesting on the browser front... they do.

The Register reports on the new Netscape 8 release. Anti-phishing blocklists. Twin Firefox (Gecko) / Internet Explorer rendering engines.

This could be interesting. A transition, perhaps, for all those IE-based sites, in the eyes of the consumer. That said, it could also slow down the speed of standards adoption, which could be a Bad Thing.

That said, I'm actually tempted to try it...

(X-posted.)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/884252.html

Date: 05/21/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser

I've been installing the motherboard chipset cd a thousand times over in the past few months that the sound mysteriously stopped working on my computer, and now it FINALLY has sound!!! Although still sucks I can burn AUDIO cd's but not DATA cd's... And somehow my Netscape browser no longer exists on this computer after I got the sound back up????

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/402551.html

Date: 05/21/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: browser

that I don't know the answer to. I use Firefox as my main browser. Whenever I reply to someones LJ comment and post it, it opens up a new window in IE. How do I get that to open in Firefox?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/690480.html

Date: 05/21/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, spyware

I saw luckysafire's post linked somewhere, so I figured I could find help here too.



The original problem started in the first week of April, so I'm starting there.

This is what the message looks like:

ERROR 013c4225: The service cannot accept control messages at this time. : $

When it sits in the windows tray, it looks like I've opened a folder, or something like it:



Here's what happens:

I sit down at the computer on Saturday night [first week of April] as soon as my sister got off. All of a sudden that error message pops up as soon as I get on AIM. I thought it was an AIM thing, so I click out of it. And it comes back. In threes. I restart the computer and don't get onto AIM. I start up Mozilla Firefox and go to LJ, reply to a comment, then try to change icons using a drop-down menu. Big mistake. I learned after restarting fifty million times that the drop-down menus trigger the error message to pop up. [I'm not sure what happened with AIM the first time, because the message came up without me being on Mozilla.]

Someone said to re-install my browser, Mozilla Firefox. I do.

Someone else said to download HijackThis. I do.

Nothing works. I downloaded other spyware blockers/detectors, and they cleaned out some bugs [about 200 bugs ><] but this error message still comes back. And I just don't know what to do. The error message's numbers change every time I restart, but the message is the same. haunted_spark said his college had something like this happen and he couldn't register for classes on time because of some virus. But nothing is being picked up by any of the scans.

I've run:
HijackThis
Spybot Search And Destroy
AVG AntiVirus Scan
Ad Aware
Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta
there was at least one other but I don't know what it was since my files were wiped later

I asked around different message boards people referred me to, but no one responded except for one person who said she/he had the same problem.

I've stopped using Firefox, and went back to Netscape, and haven't had the problem, but I'd prefer to use Firefox because of the popups that Netscape lets through which are starting to gather more spy/ad-ware.


Since then, my computer's run very slow, and isn't keeping up with the time, when I get online, it says the same time as when I got off before.

I have two hard drives [the main one is 3 gigs and the other is 4 -- it's a really old computer, it used to run Win95]. One day I let my sister online again to check her email and go to take a shower. When I get back and go online, the Blue Screen Of Death appeared [I should have taken a picture of it because I don't know what it said now] and my computer wouldn't start up. It would start the normal DOS bit, where it checks the boot record of my floppy and CD drives, but then it would say Windows could not start because the following file [or driver, I can't remember] is missing: System32\DRIVERS\pci.sys. So I grabbed my eMachines Restore CD and popped it in there. It asked to reformat the hard drive, and I let it. But it reformatted the wrong one. It deleted the drive I use for storing things like photos and school papers, and left my Windows drive alone, even though it said it would reformat that drive. So now all of my photos and things are gone, and I've still got my junky Windows XP.

After that, I figured it couldn't get any worse, right? Except refusing to start up? Well now I get this message when I start up.



Then when XP started up, it said my clock was wrong [which it was], and told me to reset it. When it finally loads up everything, it says that it's 01 January 1999.

A few people have told me that could be a problem with the motherboard, and another friend of mine said that she got that message and her motherboard fried a few weeks later, so that doesn't give me much hope.

This also started after my sister got offline. She refuses to believe that she's got anything to do with it, but whenever something like this happens, it's right after she's online. And every time I get online and somehow have a virus problem, I can retrace my steps and figure out what happened and fix it. But since it's her problem, I don't know where it came from. It may have been something through AIM or an IM service, or through something she did on Firefox.

And now when I get online, Spybot and the Microsoft AntiSpyware have windows coming up saying that spyware is trying to install. And it's different spyware every time I start up, but after I remove it and then run a scan, nothing comes up, so I don't know what's triggering it.

So I have absolutely no idea what's going on. I've had this computer for about three years, so it's outdated, but my dad is too cheap to get even a new printer cartridge, so the only way I'm going to get a new computer is when I get a new job.

Is there something you know of to stop any one of these problems?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/403079.html

Date: 05/26/05 (Security)    Keywords: browser, web

New plug-in for open-source Web browser can help protect users against attempts to swipe sensitive information.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Antiphishing+toolbar+for+Firefox+released/2100-1009_22-5720585.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/26/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, browser, xml

Software giant says Netscape's latest browser appears to break the XML rendering capabilities in Internet Explorer.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+advises+IE+users+to+uninstall+Netscape+8/2100-9588_22-5721852.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/29/05 (Algorithms)    Keywords: browser

hi all,
As part of my final semester project I wrote an extension for firefox.
The project is about a firefox extension that adapts the homepage of the browser to the user.
Everyone who browses has habits they dont know. Each day as soon as people come to the office they check their mail. In the noon , say, they checkout slashdot and at night they update their blog. The heuristic applied should make appropriate decisions and find out the most appropriate page to load given the time of day.

Purpose it will serve:
It will make the browser more intelligent. The browser will be able to predict what site the user intends to browse at the given time.
Problem it will solve:
Presently the homepage is a static item in the browser. It doesnt change with the user let alone with his habits. It should basically answer to the question
"What site should I browse now?"

Though presently it is not intelligent as it is dreamt-to-be it serves as a starting to build upon. I wanted people to use it and provide feedbacks and report bugs.

You can download the firefox extension
here
After it downloads just drag and drop the .xpi file into the browser and it should install properly.
Thanks one and all and looking forward to your support.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/algorithms/55130.html

Date: 05/30/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

Hi! I think this a great community here and I have a problem with Firefox that I'm wondering is able to be resolved here.

Ever since I've made my conversion to Speakeasy broadband and downloaded their "version" of the browser with their add-ons; Firefox has been unable to load pages for me. I use a router and have no proxy settings so - I set the internet detection settings to be "directly connected to the internet". But I'm still having problems loading anything. I've also changed my personal firewall settings to allow the browser to browse as freely as IE does.

I really loved this browser and it just makes me cringe to use IE everyday now again. Please help!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/286767.html

Date: 06/02/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, html, web, spam

I am having a problem sending/forwarding emails with my Netscape mail account & Netscape 7.2 mail client. More specifically, I am trying to forward spam to my spamcop.com account [http://www.spamcop.net/] to automatically LART the headers & content. (I forward the spam emails as an attachment to my SpamCop account address, it parses out the spam email(s), then emails me back with a link to a web from with the email parsed out and I select who I LART. Dam slick, IMHO) Everything was working fine before this past weekend.

Now, when I try to forward a single or multiple spam emails I get the following error:

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/288537.html

Date: 06/02/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

I read irishmasms's post about Netscape 8.0. First, I never use the .0 releases (tend to be very buggy) but I am concerned that it is browser only. Is Netscape scrapping the combined browser/email client idea? I hope not, because that is the main reason I stick with Netscape. Does anyone know?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/289243.html

Date: 06/03/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, html, web

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/895441.html