Date: 03/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

Hello all. I'm having trouble updating my Firefox. I click on the little arrow to update. Then, I choose to install Firefox 1.0.1. After that, a window pops up that says it's downloading and installing the file. My problem is that it just stays on that window. The progress bar doesn't fill up, at all. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might me? I'm working on Windows XP Home Edition.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/257313.html

Date: 03/03/05     Keywords: web

Hello. Yesterday I began getting a vaguely worded error every time I check my mail on a certain account. It says "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: UID (7204)" I *think* I am receiving all my messages, but sometimes it looks like it's downloading something and it doesn't actually come through.

I am inclined to believe that this is a problem on the server's side, since it doesn't happen on my other account, but it seems odd since I have no problems accessing mail from that server if I go to the website to do it.

Could there be some setting that got messed up?

Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/256840.html

Date: 03/02/05     Keywords: security

I just upgraded my Firefox to 1.0.1, and my ForecastFox extension to version 0.7. I'm trying to get the forecast to display to the left of the statusbar display, the way my old version did, but it's not working... so now I have this huge line-up of stuff (i.e. Gmail Notifier, FoxyTunes, and now the forecast) that moves around when I'm loading pages and the security certificates (or whatever) show up, and it's driving me nuts!

Any ideas on how to remedy this? There's a setting in the ForecastFox options on the position to put it in, and nothing I've tried thus far seems to put it where I want it.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/256700.html

Date: 03/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

I hate to find and join a community then ask a question in my first post, but heyho..

I've been using thunderbird a while now, because it's smaller and better than any other client I've tried: this is good. I have my thunderbird set to check for mail every 1 minute, because I frequently chat with my partner while he's at work and I like to get the e-mails immediately so he's not around waiting. If I open thunderbird, this works fine.. however, if I leave it open while I'm away from my PC and it goes into hibernate, when I start my PC up again, it refuses to check for mail every minute, and I end up having to manually do (which I usually forget about).

I was just wondering if this is a known thing, or if anyone had any ideas on how to get 'round it.. because I have to reboot and reopen thunderbird to get it to start checking regularly again.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/256369.html

Date: 03/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Thunderbird has been giving me a lot of trouble lately. I posted in this community a few weeks ago about Thunderbird crashing multiple times a day, and the crashes keep happening. It usually happens when I'm sending an e-mail-- it gets stuck on "assembling mail information" and there's nothing more I can do. They're just regular text e-mails, no huge attachments or anything. When this happens, I close Thunderbird, then do CTRL-ALT-DEL and close THUNDE~1.EXE in Task Manager. If I don't close that THUNDE~1.EXE program, Thunderbird won't let me start back up. This is really bugging me, and I can't seem to find any solution for it. I can't predict when Thunderbird is going to crash or freeze, but it happens at least twice a day and I lose the e-mail I just typed up. Does anyone know of any fixes for this?

I also have a more recent problem I was hoping for some help with. I have several different e-mail addresses that I use with Thunderbird. My default, primary e-mail address is my university e-mail address, let's call it student@university.edu. I also have a GMail address with the same handle, let's call it student@gmail.com. I created this address so once I graduate, I can simply shift all my university mail over to my GMail account. I have never used this GMail account, and no one really knows about it. The problem is, when I write e-mails with my university address, Thunderbird somehow inserts my GMail address for the reply-to address. I have no idea how it's doing this. When I open the "write mail" box, I double-check that everything says "student@university.edu." It does. However, whenever I receive a reply from somebody, in the part where it quotes my e-mail, it says, for example, "On 2/28/05 12:00pm, "my name" (student@gmail.com) wrote:" and then it quotes my original message. I have double-checked that my university mail is my primary account, and it is. How is Thunderbird switching the addresses? I can't figure it out.

I have completely uninstalled and then reinstalled Thunderbird, hoping it would fix my problems. It hasn't. I'm using a machine running Windows XP Home with SP2, and Thunderbird 1.0. I am not using the "Global Folders" feature-- each e-mail account has their own separate set of folders, etc. Thanks for any help you can give.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/256071.html

Date: 02/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

Hi.
Name: Renee
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Occupation: Student
Question(s):
-Is there a way to create a signature in Thunderbird? If so, how?
-Also, is there a way to keep messages but only delete the attachments? Once again, if so, how?

Thanks for all your help.
<3 Mozilla

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/255760.html

Date: 02/28/05     Keywords: web

I don't know why, but I've been considering more and more switching from Firefox/Thunderbird to Mozilla Suite.  It's got the little thing that pre-loads it and stays in memory (or, at least it did in Mozilla 1.3a, which was my last time using it--now 1.8beta is out).  I'm pretty sure I could transfer a lot of my stuff easily, and then mail and web will communicate better, but here's the thing: Do I really, really want to do this?  What features of Firefox and Thunderbird would I be leaving behind?  Would I be able to use my preferred theme at all?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/255649.html

Date: 02/27/05     Keywords: browser

Hi, I just joined and would like to say I'm a BIG fan of Firefox, it works so much better than IE and other browsers I've tried. :) Well I do have a question. I have background music on my lj but it only plays in IE and I don't hear my background music in other people's lj's unless I use IE. Is there a way to make it so I hear background music when browsing in Firefox? Thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/255014.html

Date: 02/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

Outlook used to have an option of placing replies into the same folder as the original message (I use IMAP subfolders extensively to manage all my mail). Does anyone know of any options or extensions in TB to do something similar? Generally it's just one message at a time so it's not such a big deal, but it's a very logical course of action - if you filed the message, you'll probably want to file the response with it - so it seems like it'd be worth having.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/254735.html

Date: 02/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

Is it just me...... or did moz zine crash your pc too?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/254583.html

Date: 02/25/05     Keywords: security

Firefox 1.0.1 Download (windows) (all systems).

Recommended for a bunch of bugfixes and a couple of security holes plugged.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/254461.html

Date: 02/25/05     Keywords: php, mysql, html, xml, sql

Do any of you bright minds know WHY some programmers decide to use Decimal Unicode notation (e.g., Firefox), whereas others decide to use Hex Unicode notation (e.g. the Gnome/libxml2/xmllint folks)?

My wish is that:

1.) They had all gotten together and decided on just one,
2.) They had all chosen Hex, padded on the left with zeroes so that all characters are represented by a full four digits (e.g. Â rather than Â for Â), the latter of which is NOT conformant to the Unicode specification, which requires four to six digits, not bloody darn one, two or three).

I know they are functionally equivalent, and I know it's a simple mathematical calculation to go from one to the other, and that Perl and PHP both probably have built-in functions that I could use to convert from one to the other, but GRRRR. I long for consistency, and god forbid, standards-compliance.

Also, why if Firefox smart enough to take UTF-8 input in an HTML form and convert it automatically to Decimal Unicode (which mySQL 4.0 can actually understand), but Safari is not smart enough (and of course, neither is I.E., duh).

--

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Safari. Safari is FAR better than Firefox at rendering certain difficult Unicode glyphs, like Devanagari (Sanskrit) that has internal HTML markup inside conjunct consonants (Opera 6.03 comes close on this). However, when it comes to Hebrew, Greek, and Romanian (the others I've had to deal with recently), Firefox is just hands-down better.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/254172.html

Date: 02/23/05     Keywords: linux, spam

Crossposted to linux, linuxsupport, openoffice and firefoxusers:

Profuse apologies for spamming the community, I promise it won't happen again (until another article is published) - Philip's Adventures with the Penguin: A Linux Diary will now be indexed at this page - so watch here for the bi-monthly updates.

Also, you may friend penguin_adv for notifications on your friends list when new articles are posted.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/253833.html

Date: 02/22/05     Keywords: software, browser

Is it just me or do gif animations seem to run too fast in Firefox? Take a look at my hypnotoad icon in firefox, then take a look at it in IE or another browser/viewer. There's a signifciant difference in speed.

I've noticed this with another icon recently as well. I tried viewing a gif animation in Irfan view as well and it was the same speed as in IE. This leads me to believe that Firefox has a bug that's running the animation too fast, rather than IE running it too slow.

Please note that gif animations have delays specified in the number of milliseconds, so if it's running at a different speed in some software, it's because of a bug not obeying the time delays correctly.

Here's a gif to test with in addition to my icon:


http://pics.livejournal.com/njyoder/pic/0005ex28

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/253665.html

Date: 02/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

When Thunderbird downloads emails, where does it store them?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/253282.html

Date: 02/21/05     Keywords: microsoft

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Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/253073.html

Date: 02/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

This might be a stupid question, but I haven't sen it answered. I'm running Sunbird on my dektop and my laptop. How can I sychronize the two together? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/252804.html

Date: 02/21/05     Keywords: software, linux

Just a quick post to introduce a new series of articles that I've been engaged to write that will cover Linux, the philosophy of Open Source Software, various projects that exist and, principally, my experiences with Linux over the coming months. They're supposed to be an informative and mildly humorous introduction to the subject, as well as tracing the course of my own (newbie to Linux) travails, tribulations and (hopefully) triumphs.


Philip's Adventures with the Penguin: A Linux Diary

Watch here for bi-monthly updates.


(Cross posted to openoffice and linux.)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/252659.html

Date: 02/21/05     Keywords: web

I just tried for the umpteenth time to install Adobe SVG viewer in FireFox. When it shows the brocken plugin icon instead of an SWG, FireFox "install plug-in" still says "No plugin found". No plugin for SVG. Yaaa right.

It blows me away that such little things are left to go on and on and on and on for months and years. Disheatening.

The best description of installation I found on the web makes reference to Adobe SVG Viewer 6 ... while Adobe's site offers 3 for download. Brilliant? No, not brilliant.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/252300.html

Date: 02/20/05     Keywords: web

I'm sure this issue has probably been discussed, but I couldn't immediately find a post that dealt with it.  Apologies if this has already been flogged to death.

When I try to reply to an LJ comment from Thunderbird, I get the following error message:

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/251852.html