Date: 10/22/05     Keywords: browser, html

http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/329996.html

I need to revisit this issue, that is, firefox/mozilla and the scroll function on my touchpad not working. Like everyone else with this problem, I've tried the about:config, I've downloaded the updated driver for the touchpad, played with the settings on the "mouse" and the touchpad, all to no avail. The function works in absolutely every other program and browser on my computer (including Opera), but I get the little "scroll bar" icon and it refuses to move in firefox, save for once in a great while if I put the cursor directly on the page's scroll bar...

Any other suggestions?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/332240.html

Date: 10/22/05     Keywords: asp, google

I've got a flash file and I don't want people to be able to hold the control key and press the arrow keys to advance the movie. How can I disable these keys or how can I make it so that the flash player cannot be advanced by the actual player and only by actionscript? Both the control key and the arrow keys are used seperately in the movie, so they can't be completely disabled, only the advancing aspect of it. Nothing good on google. What I could find anyways.

Thanks

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/331794.html

Date: 10/20/05     Keywords: html, web, google

I didn't know it could be done - have gmail email downloaded into t-bird. I thought they were web only.

Apparently, I was wrong.

The instructions are available here:

http://itly.blogspot.com/2005/02/thunderbird-gmail-configuration.html

I thought I'd post this, because there are probably others of you who didn't realize this was possible.

(EDIT)
Or, as ernestsewell has helpfully pointed out, there's official instructions here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=12103

I guess this is just to remind people that it's possible then ;).. I think I'd tried it before, and couldn't get it to work. The part I missed was the requirement for SSL.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/331336.html

Date: 10/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

And Firefox passed 100,000,000 downloads today.

Qvacks.

PS- Beat you Omar! LOL Also beat Slashdot, Newsforge, and ZD-Net.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/331202.html

Date: 10/19/05     Keywords: browser

My copy of Firefox has stopped responding to "install" links for extensions on sites like Mozilla Update and Mozdev. This is the second or third time this has happened to me, and previously my only recourse was to do a complete reinstall - which mean loosing a lot of my settings and my already downloaded extensions. Is there any way to fix this without such a dramatic recourse. Basically, when I click on the links, absolutely nothing happens. The status bar continues to read "done" and nothing else happens.

While I'm here I might as well ask something else...it used to be that when I started typing in a browser window when I wasn't in a text box Firefox would automatically start a page search. Now I have to always press ctrl+F first. Is there any way to make it behave in the old way again?

Thanks

BTW, I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 on a Windows XP machine.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/330821.html

Date: 10/16/05     Keywords: web

Check out http://simility.com

About simility
"simility is easy

The simility toobar is the fast, easy way to find great new content on the web. With just the click of the "recommend" button, we suggest new pages similar to the page you are currently viewing.
Better than search

simility is better than search engines because the recommended pages are generated from other users. We only show you recommendations of sites that other users find interesting and helpful, so you don't need to spend time paging through hundreds of search results."

Simility is basically a web discovery tool. We have released Firefox toolbar and IE toolbar is soon going to be launched. The toolbar collects the browsing history ( this can be disabled. Also https & ftp sites are blocked ) and recommends you pages similar to your currently viewed webpage and highly rated by other users.

(currently we support recommendations on pages related to sports and computers only. So, don't get disheartened if you get 'no recommendation' on a page. :-) Soon we'll be adding other categories.)

What do you guys think about it ?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/329942.html

Date: 10/11/05     Keywords: security

Probably the functionality I'm considering already exists and therefore my development would be pointless. I'm thinking that one should be able to click on the security icon, recieve a list of cookies that the most recent page tried to deposit along with their current status. One could then change the status as one wished, go back a page and try again. I block over 300 sites and trying to find the needed cookie/sites that are blocking my latest page access is a royal buttpain.

So whatd'ya think? Is this only useful to me? Does it already exist?

Qvacks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/328866.html

Date: 10/10/05     Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Net Applications, a provider of Web-based applications that measure, monitor and market Web sites for the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME), today announced its monthly Web site traffic analysis. In September, Netscape Navigator and Apple's Safari continued their modest gains for the second straight month, while FireFox lost market share for the second time in 2005.

"Opera made news last month when it announced that it will offer its browser for free, without advertising in what appeared to be a response to the wild adoption rate of FireFox," Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president of marketing and strategic relationships for NetApplications. "FireFox, Safari, Netscape and now Opera are jockeying for position and implementing aggressive marketing maneuvers which is setting the stage for a very exciting month in October and throughout the remainder of 2005."


September Browser Market Share:
Microsoft Internet Explorer - 86.87%
FireFox - 7.55%
Safari - 2.39%
Netscape - 2.16%
Opera - 0.51%
Other - 0.52%


August Browser Market Share:
Microsoft Internet Explorer - 86.31%
FireFox - 8.27%
Safari - 2.20%
Netscape - 2.02%
Opera - 0.62%
Mozilla - 0.51%
Other - 0.07%

Source: Market Share by Net Applications
Copy: Epiac's Place

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/328594.html

Date: 10/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

I decided at last to try Firefox. I downloaded version 1.0.7 (I use Mac Os X 10.4.2) and launched it. I then imported bookmarks etc from Netscape, which I am currently using. I then tried to look at said imported Bookmarks, but every time I do it, Firefox crashes.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/328209.html

Date: 10/08/05     Keywords: html, web, google

I downloaded an extension called FasterFox (http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/)... I find that it is a nice little tweak utility, however there's one feature they advertise that I'm not sure if it's 'safe' to use.


Prefetch Links
Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Firefox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

My question is - does this only prefetch content marked somehow for prefetching? Or does it just randomly grab any HTML link it sees?

Because if it just grabs every link it sees, it could be extremely dangerous... lots of links are of the type "click on me and something serious happens, like your account is deleted"... or mail gets marked read on a webmail server, etc...

I had used Google Web Accellerator for a brief amount of time, and this kind of prefetching was one of its features.. I had to throw it away due to that kind of problems... webpages would act strange if you just randomly clicked on links... Static pages are okay, but dynamic content it is dangerous to just download every link willy-nilly..

So does this prefetch feature take that into consideration? They talk about it like it's built into FireFox, so I would hope it does have some mechanism to know when prefetching is safe.. the onjly way I can see that working is if webpages marked content safe to prefetch...

Anyone know some details on this?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/327949.html

Date: 10/07/05     Keywords: web

Some persons develop different habits while surfing the web, i.e. using more the keyboard than the mouse. For those of you who prefer to use the keyboard, here's an interesting link about useful Firefox keystrokes:

My Favourite Firefox Keystrokes written by Derek Featherstone

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/327704.html

Date: 10/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

This is to advise that Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 has been released and is available for download. It is to be noted that this is not the final release of Firefox. It has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox which is 1.0.7.

If you wish to download Firefox 1.5 Beta 2, kindly click here

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/327586.html

Date: 10/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

See, I had set the calendar on Multiweek view (6 weeks), yet when I try to print (File>>Print active calendars) it out, it still shows only 4 weeks even though I chose the Multiweek option. Any idea how to work around this?

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/326854.html

Date: 10/05/05     Keywords: web

While surfing the web last night, I stumbled upon two cleverly designed posters used by Mozilla's people to spread out the Firefox word. I enjoyed them so much, that I thought it would be nice to share them with the Mozilla community.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/326481.html

Date: 10/04/05     Keywords: browser, web, microsoft, ebay

Many e-Bay sellers are expressing their frustration at e-Bay's lopsided web design in favor of MS Internet Explorer. According to yesterday's mozillaZine post; AuctionBytes.com , an on-line news site, is reporting that some eBay sellers have started a petition to persuade the auction heavyweight to support Mozilla Firefox and other alternative browsers. According to the article, some features on the eBay Sell Your Item page are optimised for Microsoft Internet Explorer and do not work correctly in Firefox and other browsers. Furthermore, there is no Firefox version of eBay Toolbar, which is currently only available for Internet Explorer on Windows.

The petition, entitled eBay to provide alternative browser support, was created by Jared McAteer and has 1,189 signatures at the time of writing. Signers are required to provide a name and email address.

"It should be noted that sellers can use Firefox to auction items on eBay but the experience is not as smooth and refined as it is with Internet Explorer. Not all of the site is Mozilla-hostile: in May, eBay improved its Picture Manager tool to add support for Firefox. In addition, eBay is one of the default search engines in the Firefox Search Bar, which we presume raises revenue for the Mozilla Foundation."

If you feel e-Bay has a faulty business policy, kindly click here to sign a petition requesting e-Bay to provide further support to other web browsers besides IE.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/326359.html

Date: 10/03/05     Keywords: spyware

Today my dad rebooted my computer because he was installing something... and the administrator account has gone missing on the welcome screen (Windows XP) due to spyware we're thinking.

Anyways, I have another account set up on the computer for times just like this, so it's no biggie. The real thing that irks me though is that my favorites, extensions, and theme for Firefox are all on the other account... I hadn't backed up my favorites, but is there by any chance I could get my FF profile back? The files and all are still there (“My Documents” and such)--the account is just not appearing on the welcome screen.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/325869.html

Date: 10/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

I'm using 1.0.6 and I've just installed it for the first time. GREAT app, but I'm having LJ issues. I can't reply to posts via the email form that is sent to me (I have notifications turned on). I get an error:

Error

One or more errors occurred processing your request. Please go back,
correct the necessary information, and submit your data again.

• Comment not posted: POST required, or missing parameter.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/325568.html

Date: 10/02/05     Keywords: spam

Earlier today someone spammed a community I'm in, so I just blocked all pictures that were hosted by tinypic.com. They took care of everything so now I was wondering how do I un-block pictures hosted by tinypic.com?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/325305.html

Date: 10/01/05     Keywords: security, linux

On Thursday, September 29, mozillaZine officially announced that Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 was available for download. Amongst other changes, this new release includes fixes for a return receipt regression introduced in version 1.0.2 (bug 289091) and the Linux command line URL parsing security flaw.

According to mozillaZine, the Linux command line URL parsing security flaw "could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a victim's system. The bug exists in the Linux shell scripts that Firefox and the Mozilla Application Suite rely on to parse URLs supplied on the command line or by external programs. If the supplied URL contains any Linux commands enclosed in backticks, these will be executed before Firefox or the Mozilla Application Suite tries to open the URL. Variables such as $HOME will also be expanded." For more information regarding this security flaw, click here

Thunderbird 1.0.7 can be downloaded from the Thunderbird Product Page

Note: It is recommended that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest version at their earliest convenience.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/324942.html

Date: 09/30/05     Keywords: blogging, browser, web

Question:

In regards to the announcement that Blogger/Blogspot, one of the Big 3 Blogging services (alongside both Xanga and our own Livejournal), was created by its developers using Mozilla Firefox, and that Firefox is recommended by the same for viewing the content on all pages within the Blogger domain, I have wondered about Livejournal's place in all this.

Frankly, while Livejournal hasn't given me much of any problems as a Firefox user, I'm worried about how Livejournal was built, and if the content on here is all totally compatible with this increasingly-present web browser.

I mean, yes, the code for Livejournal is filed under one of those GNU-GPLs we keep hearing about. However, even if that's the case, the slightest notion of Livejournal's hypothetical Firefox incompatibility will have alot of us LJers wondering about our future here.

Hopefully, such isn't the case. Hopefully, its not a matter of one browser getting better treatment over, or at the expense of, another browser.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/324800.html