Firefox

Visiting the Microsoft Office Live Workspace promises to allow users to store as many a 1000 documents online and share them with colleagues. Sounds good. Unless you try and sign up for the free service and you’re running Linux. If you are running Linux then you’ll be greeted with a screen informing you that you’ll need to be running a version of Windows or MacOSX and either Internet Explorer or Firefox (good to see Firefox in there).

Fue después de leer ayer tarde esta entrada de Andrés Nieto que se me ocurrió que quedaría bonito hacer una comparativa del estado actual de las betas de Explorer y Firefox. Y aquí está. Con todos ustedes el navegador más usado del panorama y el intrépido aspirante:

But if you’re using Firefox, which you should be instead of the annoying IE, you can use a script to do a quick fix and be able to access blogspot, wordpress, wikipedia, and livejournal.

Then came the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar, and things started to get a whole lot easier. The Firefox Firebug extension and the IE Web Developer Toolbar let you work interactively with the the two main browsers, albeit one at a time. I usually pick one or the other, get a design working, and verify / fix it in the other browser.

Mientras tanto, lo que para uno es perdida para otros son ganancias y así Firefox se lleva la mayor parte ganando un 5.64% de cuota seguido de Google Desktop (1.74%), Mozilla de forma genérica — seguramente alguna variante que use el motor Gecko — con un 0.41% y Opera con un 1.08%.

Every few months I get tired of Firefox chewing memory and hanging every 2-3 days, and decide to return to Safari. It’s a dilemma: Safari’s speed, elegance, and stability, or Firefox’s wealth of plugins? For now, I’m going to put speed and stability first and make Safari primary again. I can switch over when I need to do something Safari can’t do.

In short, Haute Secure is a Malware Filter, much like a Phishing or Spam Filter in existing applications. It provides a beautiful (you really have to see it!) interface and toolbar to IE (and soon Firefox) which protects users from incoming malware on a variety of levels, starting from the site level to the execution level. If cnn.com were to be hacked tomorrow with an unreleased exploit that would attempt to download a worm or other malware on visitors’ machines, Haute would be able to detect that, and block the exploit from happening.

The width and height can be modified to any size you want. The autoplay feature and looping can be turned on and off by using “true” or “false”. So far, I tested it on my old mac in Firefox and Safari. It works in Firefox, but not so well in Safari, in fact, not at all in Safari. All I see is the static quicktime logo sitting there, all quiet, taunting me. If your on a windows machine, I’d like to know if you’re able to play the clip.

Alright, so there wasn’t any actual kissing going on, but there was a great meeting on OpenID and Firefox 3.0 at Mozilla this afternoon. We’ve heard that Mozilla was interested in supporting OpenID in Firefox 3.0, but what does that really mean?

digg tiene demasiados clones, con el éxito del sitio han aparecido clones en casi todos los idiomas, en español el más conocido es menéame, que no se le acerca ni a los talones a la elaborada arquitectura de digg, menéame es otro sitio que he probado por un tiempo y me ha decepcionado. Está lleno de gente que echa abajo la mayoría de las noticias que se publican, se siente una mala onda en el sitio. Como si las únicas noticias importantes fueran del último productos de Apple, o de la última versión de Firefox.

On the other side, Firefox had a single 9 day window of vulnerability to an exploit.

When in Windows I use FeedDemon and have used many others; but I like FeedDemon and pretty well live in it :). I can’t say the same for any of the offerings I have seen or tried for Linux. I even tried a couple of the ones that are available as Firefox extensions but I never liked them in Windows and that feeling hasn’t changed on this side of the bridge either.

I’ve pointed other people at the Minimo Project, a minimized version of Firefox for Windows Mobile. I don’t have a Windows Mobile device, so I have not been able to test yet. However, since I am looking at a new phone due to the endless resets of my Treo 650, I have been looking at browsers other than Pocket IE. Reviews I have received are pretty good.

To celebrate the launch of Firefox2.0, Mozilla foundation held the Firefox summit 2006 at Mountain View office, the headquarter near Google office. As I know, this is the second time that this summit is held. It's great that I can have such a chance to be here, get to know some guys who I only know the nickname from the IRC channel or the bugzilla. To share some idea with some other guys who can't be here, I'd like to draft some stuff in the following days. Hope it helpful.

The goal of the “Tamarin” project is to implement a high-performance, open source implementation of the ECMAScript 4th edition (ES4) language specification. The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript(tm) Virtual Machine within Adobe® Flash® Player.

It seems there's a bit of confusion preceeding the release of Firefox (FF) 2.0

For the past few months, since upgrading Firefox to one of the 2.0 betas, I've been somewhat lost without my handy del.icio.us integration courtesy of the official del.icio.us extension for Firefox (which isn't 2.0-compatible).

I like the tabbed browsing so far, initially when I first used it in Firefox, I didn’t like it, but it was just because I was used to alt tabbing between windows, etc, but, I’m old and set in my ways. This is a lot better than the grouping that was introduced in earlier versions; I turned that off in about 2 seconds.

On a tech note, I have been playing around with web browsers of late. I was using Safari but, alas, the WYSIWYG text editors on the Content Management Systems that I use did not work with it (Apple: take note!); so, dissatisfied with Firefox's speed (although they are building a Mac OS Cocoa version, codenamed Minefield, which appears to be a little swifter), I then swapped to the Mozilla-based Mac OS 10-only browser Camino.

I’ve thought a lot recently about how extensible an app like Firefox is, and that it conceivably could actually be the only piece of software I’d need. With extensions, Greasemonkey and AJAXy web apps, it could work.

If you want your firefox browser faster and more faster .. you can try this trick .. i dont know if this trick can called ‘hacked’ firefox, but just try it and all works!

Gestern wurde die Release 2.0 Beta 1 des Firefox freigegeben. Auf Lifehacker.com gibt es Screenshots.

It’s nice to see almost 40% of German netizens using Mozilla Firefox - free software - for their browsing needs.

FootieFox es otra extensión que, como Joga Companion, sirve para mantenerte al tanto de los resultados del Mundial… pero no sólo del Mundial, también de más de 18 ligas europeas y varios campeonatos internacionales, algo interesante pues el fútbol no se acaba con la final del Mundial. La extensión avisa los goles con señales audiovisuales, anuncia los resultados en una parte de la barra de estado de Firefox y tiene varias otras funciones.

La pregunta estará rondando por vuestra cabeza ahora será: ¿Qué acontecerá si coloco algún código de esos, ahora, en un HTML para probarlo con mi bonito Firefox? …

Eine sehr coole Firefox Extension zur WM. Man kann den Skin anpassen (bei mir natürlich England) und es gibt Videos und Ergebnisse eingeblendet.

Although I have Opera installed on my PC (as well as IE7, Flock, Firefox, and Maxthon) I don’t really use it much, but maybe with this latest update I might, as it seems to have some very useful features.

Firefox 質問スレ part 31 に、Web Developer のツールバーのラベルの文字列を少なくしたいという質問が出ていました。メインメニューの表示を変えるには、Shortmenu を使えば簡単に出来るんですが、拡張機能のツールバーだとそうは行きません。ということでどうにかできないかと考えました。

I’ve been working on a flyout menu for NS tonight and I was able to make it work. Except it only worked in Firefox, and not in IE. I personally thing the whole world should be using Firefox … but from looking at the site logs, 56% of the visitors use IE, a total of 38% use Firefox, and a scant 6% use Safari.

But beyond the slow factor (which may or may not be a short term thing), there's the ugliness factor. By default it shows a bunch of irrelevant stuff that I don't care about. Sure I can customise it so it shows content I'm interested in - but that takes effort to learn how, and Ma and Pa Bloggs from next door aren't going to go to the effort. Sure it can be customised to what I want - but so can the bookmarks in my browser. It's incredibly simple to set up buttons in Firefox that will bring the local weather up with one click, bring the white pages up with one click, bring google search up with one click - bring my other most used sites up with one click. It's a hell of a lot more simple to do this with the browser than it is with Live.com. Also - why would I want to deal with an overloaded screen each time the browser loads? The answer is - I don't. There's too much noise in my life - I want less. (MS packaging of Ipod anyone?)

I picked this off the Drudge Report this evening from the New York Times: New Microsoft Browser Raises Google’s Hackles. Give me a break. Google complains about IE 7’s search box in its upper right hand corner. Its just stupid. Google thinks the IE 7 search box puts Microsoft in a unfair advantage for its default being MSN Search (Microsoft’s search engine). Ok so if Microsoft can’t put a search box in the upper right hand corner of their browser, is it fair that Firefox can? I mean Firefox pretty much uses the same concept already and has been for quite some time now. I’m tired of double standards.

That being said, if you find Univ.Bin’s for your favorite proggies, you’ll be golden. I’m using Camino, which everyone should be using anyway (http://www.caminobrowser.org/). Firefox ate system like a pig in a patato patch. Camino= better looking and works great. I also am using Adium for my Instant Messaging, which isn’t as pretty as MSN for mac, but supports display pics and your basic emoticons (in a huge range of IM protocols) and is very fast.

and unfortunately it has nothing to do with sex. No. I am on my knees begging you all to use Firefox. Thanks to sammelsurium (who just translated this post for Blog Against Sexism Day) for pointing out that my new design looked like utter shit in Internet Explorer. I was a bad designer and didn’t think to check to see if it worked in IE. I’ve just spent a few hours working on the bugs and i think i fixed most of them. However, for now you IE users still won’t be able to correctly view some of the graphics (like the ‘blogroll’ and ‘metafied’ images on the right) because they are PNGs. I’d like to switch them to another format so that all you stubborn IE users can get the full transparent experience, but they just don’t look right. Perhaps i’ll figure it all out later, but for now you’re just going to have to get Firefox or deal with it. Sorry.

I have successfully tested this file format with both IE and Firefox. It is provided below as an example for you to utilize, but I make no warranties or claims of fitness-to-purpose. There are many additional testing conditions that might be more relevant to another environment or set of business policies (e.g. Time-of-day, day-of-week, DNS information, etc.).

I’ve been using the Firefox View in IE Extension for about a year or so now and I love it. Like a lot of companies, Yahoo has a ton of web based applications that I rely on to do my day to day looking up orders, looking at contracts, accessing marketing materials, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of these applications are a bit dated and don’t necessarily play well with Firefox. Therefore, I have become extremly reliant on the View in IE Extension. If I find a page that isn’t working, simply right click and a new IE window opens up. It was great.

Web Developer Extension is an extension for open source Mozilla Firefox and Flock browsers. It provides two categories of utilities - one which will dissect the HTML page that has been visited - analyse each and every component, and a set of tools to test compliance to standards. Because of this combination, it provides critical value in the convenient form of a toolbar.

Take WordPress for example. It is a predecessor of b2, which became dormant in the past. Netscape and its evolution towards Mozilla and Firefox resulted in what is arguably the best Web browser, among many browsers in existence. AbiWord, KOffice, OpenOffice and StarOffice share some common fundamental codebase and they all (if not most) are here to stay. This comes to show the power of looking upon the shoulders of others, constantly extending in this code-driven community.

Oooh. The alure of an Aqua interface is too much for me. I just downloaded Camino for my Mac. It’s made by the people who make FireFox and uses the same rendering engine except they made it look more like a native Mac app. I’m already loving it. It just looks nicer. To me it’s just FireFox with a nicer looking outside. Plus it has integration with a bunch of Mac apps. If you have a Mac, I highly recommend you check out Camino.

There are a few interesting links. One is the lookup service at http://www.lashback.com/register/UnsubsafeLookup.aspx and another is a downloadable blacklist at http://lashback.com/ubl.htm which is available in different formats. They also have an SDK and a web service but you need to have a client key number to use it which I doubt is something you can get for free. If it was free to use then I think a Firefox plugin would be nice for submitting and checking. Perhaps there is a way to use the free stuff though. Something to look at in the future. Almost forgot, they also have a blog but it doesn't get updated much.

From the Mozilla wiki page,the alpha version of Firefox 2.0 is coming out February 10, 2006.

And guess what, it hasn’t crashed or even slowed down. Its very very fast, maybe even faster than Firefox by my rekkoning. The interface isn’t the best but bares strong resemblence to Firefox. Its very lightweight and easy to run, plus since its an uncommonly used browser, its way safer than Firefox; more so than IE. K-Meleon uses the same gecko rendering engine found in Firefox so there won’t be any page incompatibility, viewing or rendering issues here.

Reveal crea mini-imágenes de las páginas que tenemos en los tabs de firefox, dejandonos elegir, reordenar, las págínas que tenemos abiertas.

To be fair, it’s not his fault all those ‘wares were on his computer. My sister also uses that computer as well. My sister refuses to switch over to Firefox because she does not like its “look” and that some of her sites won’t work in Firefox. It’s really frustrating knowing that someone is still using IE in this day and age.

What happens next depends on your Web browser and it's settings. I'll detail what happens in Mozilla Firefox first. Then we'll talk about Internet Explorer.

I got a bit excited today when I went over to the FatMixx SiteMeter Report page because I noticed in FireFox that the RSS icon was present in the location bar, indicating that there was an RSS feed for that page. I was hoping they did what Measure Map did, with personalized feeds for my site. I was surprised that there wasn’t an announcement on the SiteMeter blogs. So I checked out what RSS feed they were pointing at. Turns out the feed tag in the source points to the RSS feed for the SiteMeter weblog. Booo! The RSS icon is only supposed to show on pages that have RSS feeds for the content on that page. Not just that the site somewhere has an RSS feed about something. Booo again!

I can’t use Firefox to browse my Windows Live Mail (email box) Damn it. Microsoft suc*s.

I would really like to use a spell checker on all my various posting excursions on the Internet. I blog. I Whirlpool. I e-mail. Surely it would be good to have a spell checker, just to make sure I’m hitting the right buttons? I have been using the Google Firefox toolbar for its spell check feature; it’s actually the only feature I use. But it looks like it’s incompatible with Wordpress’ new ajaxified ‘Write Post’ section. Bummer.

次にちゃんと会社用のPCを購入した際には、完全にFirefoxへ移行しようと思ってるのだが・・・

As of now, Protopage allows you to have frames that contain RSS Feeds (your choice and predefined sets), bookmarks/links, and a panel for sticky notes. I have not found that Protopage allows for user defined plugins or extensions, which limits its ability for expansion. They have just made it so that IE and Firefox users can use the scroll bar on their mouses to scroll down the RSS feeds, this is an example of how Protopage is still in the early stages and has quite a few things that it still needs to work out.

Gripes aside, Google Pack really helped me. I assumed it would be a nice way to save time managing programs on my fiancé’s computer, but seeing as my PC is pretty much bare (it has a few games, Firefox, Tortoise SVN, InstantRails and a text editor installed), I actually found it very useful. I noticed a lot of digg.com readers commenting that Google were becoming ‘bloated’, or doing too much, but it worked nicely for me!

If you recall, there were significant problems with Firefox (then called Mozilla) development two years ago. An ongoing problem was that there didn’t seem to be a lot of development …. new versions took ages to come out. But the second problem, and probably the one that scared Apple off most of all, was code bloat. Mozilla/Firefox had a LOT of code, was a big download, hogged memory, and was sloowwwww ….

PortableApps.com announces a version of OpenOffice.org that will fit on and run from a USB stick. I keep a 64 meg stick in my pocket with portable versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and the Miranda IM client. Sadly, I’ll need to upgrade if I want to run oo.

Well, I’ve succombed to the hype and switched to Performancing. Seems like a very good implementation. So I’m going back to using Firefox as my main browser. I miss some of Flock’s features already, such as auto-search through history and favorites while typing in the search box.

“IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.

I’m a fan of DKos and a fan of Firefox. I’m also a fan of the DKos RPXP tool… which made it quite the confusing notion of whether to upgrade to v1.5 of Firefox when the RPXP tool hadn’t been modified for v1.5 compatibility.

If you do decide to test it out there are a few necessities that I recommend. First, find and download the Firefox extension that allows book marking and tagging on the fly (assuming you use Firefox). Otherwise you’ll have to navigate from the site you want to bookmark to del.icio.us’ site to add it and tag it. Also figure out how to back up your critical bookmarks (maybe by tagging them as such). It has an export capability into a browser friendly version and considering the recent complaints about their outage, you might want to have a back up plan.

This came about when espa made a great looking mod of the Safari FX theme for 1.07 that is totally incompatible with the recently released firefox 1.5. I tried to make something that will look okay and hold people over until a proper version is released by someone who knows what they’re doing.

Foxmarks is an extension for Firefox that synchronizes bookmarks across multiple machines.

Apparently Firefox logs URL data in history.dat, meaning that it will save titles. If we make our title long enough, such as with the following bit of javascript, we can execute a denial of service (DOS) attack against Firefox the next time it loads:

This webpage is officially “Too Cool for IE”. Until Microsoft gets their act together, I have decided to forget about supporting Internet Explorer and continue using CSS tags that IE does not support. So if you are using Internet Explorer, please do yourself a favor and get Firefox!

RSS on the other hand, requires little bandwidth and is one of the biggest changes I have made to my web browsing habits over the past couple of months. Before I started using RSS, I would have to click on a whole bunch of bookmarks to have my daily “update” of news. But since most sites worth reading now have RSS feeds, it makes sense to use an application or plugin to consolidate your information gathering and minimize the effort needed to retrieve that information. There’s many RSS readers out there, but the one I use is a Firefox plugin called Sage. It installs in seconds, integrates with any Live Bookmarks you may already have in your bookmarks, and allows you to take advantage of tabbed browsing and all the other goodies that Firefox has. You can even customize the look of feeds by editing a CSS template!

Here's a post by Marshall Kirkpatrick that describes a bookmarklet he created, complete with demo and link to a screencast on how to use it. In Firefox you can drag the Javascript link to the tab bar and use it with CS or any blogging app. That doesn't work in IE and Maxthon, which I use about 95% of the time (old habits...).

En Toni ens diu que ja podem descarregar de forma oficial la versió 1.5 de Firefox en la nostra llengua!

That will change, as the tools used by the great unwashed pick up and highlight RSS functionality. That’s not Newsgator or Firefox, but IE and Windows.

It seems a decent amount of people I know have made the switch already. Not to worry, if you know someone who has not switched over to Firefox, send them this way. It’s not costing them anything but time, time that they have wasted using other browsers that can’t standup to Firefox. Ask your browser “Browser, would you like to go in to the octagon with Firefox and tap out in five seconds?”. I think you know the answer. In case you don’t, your browser said “No thanks, Firefox looks like a beast. He’s gotta be on the juice”.

Got some real work done for a client. I’m really thankful for web standards like HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS. I did some conversion of some client web pages over to HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS. I tested in Mozilla/Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera. Uploaded the finished web pages and notified the client. Then, I thought about doing a google search to see if there was a way to view the client’s web site using older browser standards. Whew! There was http://anybrowser.com and the client’s web pages degraded gracefully to the older web standards. Thanks in most part to HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS and the engineers who had the foresight to allow for graceful degradation. Thanks guys!

« Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 is available

US CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security continues to recommend that users of Internet Explorer “use a different web browser”. The folks there can’t say it but we all know what they want to say and that’s use Firefox.

I know what you’re saying: why would I ever want to touch IE once I have Firefox? Some sites still don’t support open-source browsers, so you’re forced to use IE. When you encounter one of these sites, you need to go find that burried application that you deleted the shortcut to becuase you never thought you’d need it again, and go from there. With this simple Firefox extention, you can now run an instance of IE as a tab inside of Firefox! Very cool!

Just grabbed my copy of Firefox 1.5 RC 1. A few minor improvements. Beta 2 was a more significant upgrade, especially on Mac. Other than a few extensions I had to hack to get working, it’s been pretty smooth.

Check out “Flock” (a FireFox derivative) here - www.flock.com.

Phonifier is an open source mobile transcoder. Like loband, I wasn’t able to get it to work with any of several phones and emulators from Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and Openwave. In all cases I got either a blank screen or a screen with some text but missing the text field for entering the target url and/or the submit button. I think the problem is that Phonifier uses the same html page for both mobile and desktop browsers. There are separate stylesheets for media=’screen’ and media=’handheld’. The handheld stylesheet makes all of the extraneous text invisible. Mobile browser support for media=’handheld’ is still very limited and apparently none of the browsers I’m using support it correctly. This is a pretty inefficient way to make a mobile page as the browser still has to download a lot of content that it ends up throwing away. A better solution would be to have a separate mobile specific homepage with it’s own url. I was able to see how Phonifier is supposed to work by using Firefox and the Web Developer extension to force the use of the handheld stylesheet. I was also able to load the site on the Access Smartphone browser but even here the browser did not use the handheld stylesheet!. Fortunately, only the initial Phonifier page where you enter the url you want to transcode has this problem.

I am currently trying out the new browser called “Flock.” It has this awesome intergrated blogging feature but it’s basically Firefox 1.5 with some extensions and a skin.

themediaslut got hold of a video recording at a security forum event recently held in Singapore.

Don Sambandaraksa, for the Bangkok Post, post a question asking about the feasibility of OS developers, like Microsoft, embedding security applications in their OS in the future.

My dream recommendation, given any amount of resources being made available, is that OO.o be ported to Gtk. Then, it would be restructured to be the Firefox of office software - a lean core functionality and a flexible “Extensions” mechanism. This would hopefully lower the barrier-to-entry for programmers sufficiently as to encourage wide participation by people interested in improving the office suite. The lean core could then be focused on and maintained more effectively than the massive bulk of the do-it-all office program.

On the other hand, Firefox 1.x has 3 out of 25 Secunia advisories that are marked as “Unpatched”, and a partially patched bug. Opera 8.x so far is free from any vulnerabilities.

Looking around for current browser statistics, I found the w3schools statistics. w3schools is primarily visited by the web development community. I was curious if Firefox was still slumping in popularity, which it is. In fact the decline has started picking up in pace.

I have successfully installed “Bork Bork Bork!” plugin for Mozilla Firefox. What is this Bork Bork Bork thing? Well, it is related to the swedish cook that used to appear in Sesame Street. Wanna know more about him? You have some info here, but you can also see the Bork Bork Bork edition of Google, and the Opera Bork Version.

Let’s rewind back to yesterday afternoon. I got out of class and decided I needed to work on some insurance information and make sure it was all up to date and the like. As I’m following the instructions about registering online, I fire up Opera and proceed to load their web page. I’m greeted by some MSPaint concoction of some whackass smiley face telling me that I’ve been “pwn3d”. My first thought was, “Shit, I hope for my sake I haven’t already registered with this insurance company.” Next course of action is to fire up Skype and call this company to inquire about a possible security breach and if any of my information had been leaked. It was the middle of the afternoon here which meant it was outside of normal business hours. I made a mental note to call them late last night and went about my way surfing the web and whatnot only to find that all of the images on all of the sites I was browsing were replaced with this same graphic. This worried me; was my laptop compromised? Did I load up a trojaned binary by chance? Is Opera being screwy? I quickly launched Firefox and discovered that I couldn’t escape this image. “What the hell is going on?” I thought to myself.

Combining del.icio.us and Live Bookmarks leads to some pretty interesting results. It pretty much amounts to a community link blog where anyone can contribute a cool new link that they found. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve stumbled across a ton of stuff I would have never seen otherwise (see my last two posts). To give it a shot, go to Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks in Firefox. Click on File->New Live Bookmark and enter “http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/java” into the Feed Location field. Give it a name and hit Ok. Now go to your bookmarks and find your newly created Java linkblog. You can change “java” in the url to any word that comes to mind. I’m currently monitoring popular, java, software, programming, web, linux, tech, internet, webdesign, technology, business, science, ajax, webdev, php, css, funny and firefox. This amounts to a huge waste of time, but it’s pretty interesting.

Yeah. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is out. I’ve gotten to give some demos to some people and it’s been pretty fun. A few more demos tomorrow and then demos till Firefox 1.5 final release.

So I googled arount and in some seconds, I found two very useful tools for Firefox: The Adblock Project which is a simple but powerful adblocker for the Firefox browser and the Adblock Filterset.G Updater, which fetches the newest filterset from the internet.

Bart Decrem and some programmers in Palo Alto, California, are soon to launch a new browser called Flock. This will be an open-source browser and it will be a beta launch in early October (so they say). This browser is based upon the most popular open source browser Firefox.

I haven’t posted anything on Japanese here in a while, but that’s mostly because I’ve had other stuff occupying me. Now tonight while looking for something else I found this guy’s site. He’s got a Firefox plugin called RikaXUL which lets you lookup kanji from within Firefox.

New Vulnerability in Firefox Browser September 11th, 2005 A vulnerability has been reported in Firefox which could allow malicious sites to compromise computers running the browser. The security hole, which is rated highly critical by Secunia, affects all versions, including Firefox 1.0.6

I had the ID “content” set to a zero margin and padding, but when I went to preview the results there was about 10 pixels of margin above the DIV. I started to play with negative margins to shrink this gap down, but I was getting different results in both IE and FireFox. After a lot of fiddling around, I finally set the margin on the paragraph tag to zero and suddenly things fell into place. Strange, but I would have expected there to be space between the paragraph and the DIV.

still using internet explorer? what the hell you think you're doing? still using Firefox? good for you.

Only in Thailand... The Software Industry Promotions Agency (SIPA) has announced open source software suites for both servers and clients in the Thai market. Suriyan (roughly "the sun") is a Linux server package which allegedly does not require Linux skills. Chantra (roughly "the moon") is a client suite containing Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, and more.

Anyone who knows me knows that this whole software engineering thing is just filler while I pursue my real goal in life: being the Jared of Togo’s. I’ve been known to eat their sandwiches at every meal—Dinner, After Dinner Snack, and Midnight Feeding for engineers—and it is widely known that my future wife will need to accept our firstborn, Togo von Firefox de la Schmutz. Ross.

Mincus has created an AdSense notifier, displaying your earnings in your Firefox status bar. Useful, if you’re obsessive about earnings (or just OCD).

I’ve tried a few times to play with firefox (or it’s parent, mozilla) in order to write a plugins. There’s no shortage of ideas that I could implement… But every time I get stymied at the first step: getting the development environment set up.

Yesterday I decided to try the new Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1, as I am always game to test new software. After installation I have noticed that IE has now got tab browsing support, which was one of the main factors for me using firefox. Looks like I will most likely be running both Firefox and IE7 in the interim and hopefully with time I should see which one I will stick with.

I was convinced some time ago about quitting my Internet Explorer in favour of Mozilla’s Firefox as my default browser. I have been very pleased with the services and possibilities in Firefox since I started using it. Up until today! I was cruising around on the Internet, not doing anything unusually from what I normally do, and not visiting pages I don’t usually do either. A little later on I needed another browser open, as one sometimes do, so I did what I usually do - clicked on the firefox icon in the bar - and swuuush…all my settings, pass words, my Sage, and preferences were gone! Please tell me what that is all about! That is just not okey at all!

Anonymous Cowherd writes, “Paul Thurrott, a journalist that usually writes about all things windows related (and sometimes about Apple affairs too), made a call in a recent article to boycott Internet Explorer, due to Microsoft’s approach (continued in IE7) of not supporting web standards”:

Thanks to a web design guru, my blog now works in Firefox. God bless all web design gurus!

I’ve got a long shot suspicion. Perhaps Google plans to by Mozilla, and its Firefox browser. Justification as follows:

Firefoxが1.06にアップしたというんで仕事の現実逃避もかねてアップしてみました。

Despite this awkward start, Mr. Ross agreed to the interview, and we met a couple weeks ago at a Palo Alto, Calif., coffee house so that I could get to know this tech prodigy and potential serial entrepreneur. Not surprisingly, he seemed bright, grounded, and with a clear vision for his near future. More surprisingly, he seemed not at all caught up in the hype surrounding him.

Two software releases of note: Mozilla released an upgrade of Firefox, which includes several security fixes. They advise all users to download and install the upgrade. And the Open CD Project popped up on the radar with the release of a CD compilation of open-source programs that run on Windows.

ColorZilla
Gets colors and stuff from the sites you’re on. Helps tons when coding sites.

Due to the fact that well over half of the US population are cell phone users, internet companies are attempting to capitalize on mobile web markets, by developing specialized software and services for cell phone users. Mozilla, for example, recently released a preview of a mobile-phone browser that will use the same code base as the popular Firefox browser.

Just days after the latest release of Firefox 1.0.5, Mozilla Foundation is going to release Firefox 1.0.6 as early as next week. This is due to the API changes in 1.0.5 unintentionally broke some extensions, which have caused some incompatibility between the browser and web-based applications.

By now you should be aware that Firefox 1.0.5 and Thunderbird 1.0.5 have been released. You can click on the links in the last sentence to download them.

Finally, my favourite desktop application is the Firefox web browser. If you are still using Internet Explorer, and you use the web anything more than very occasionally, it is well worth updating to this much more modern browsers - it is more productive, more secure and more usable. The only other browser that even comes close it Opera. Firefox’s most amazing feature is its extensibility. I have 12 extensions installed, but the one that needs mentioning here, is the one that helps with website design, the Web Developer Toolbar extension. If you design or run a website, you need this.

It's official. Work on my Firefox blog is underway. Rather than having a mishmash of tips and all sorts of information with no real design behind it as was true with my first effort, I decided to do what I did in college when I was faced with any major assignment: Make a plan, an outline. That single decision has already begun to bear fruit. I opened my trusty NoteTab Pro, and made a list. Just a list of what I wanted to include in the sidebars, and in what order the items would appear. I put the list away when I had finished that piece. I took it out again later, and decided as long as I now had my sidebar planned, I could just code a few of the links in. Then I listed my favorite extensions.

If you put my grandfather in a room with God and gave him one question, he would not ask for the meaning of life. He would not inquire as to the existence of poverty or the vagaries of human nature. No, he would ask, and I quoth: Do you use Firefox? My grandfather, an avid watcher of our SpreadFirefox counter, claims to have personally converted the 4 million people in his “inner circle,” or what we call “Florida.” God would make 4 million and one.

New students: I would recommend that today you take a look at Firefox, a web browser that we use extensively in class. You can learn more about Firefox in this tutorial Using Mozilla Firefox. You will find Firefox and the available extensions very helpful in class.

Firefox allows you to get a plugin "Wizz RSS" and I use a utility called "Akregator" to get the updates of these feeds.� You might ask, why?

در آخر سعی کنید قالب فارسی شده را با مروگرهای مختلفی مانند IE ، FireFox و Opera آزمایش کنید و مشکلات احتمالی پیگیری و رفع کنید. و به سلیقه خودتان در صورت نیاز تغییرا ت کوچکی در فواصل و اندازه ها اعمال کنید.

This is a very cool script for the awesome Firefox Extension called GreaseMonkey. The script is called TechnoProxy and was written by the guys over at Peer Pressure.

Trixie is to Internet Explorer as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It lets you remix the Web via scripts. You may do this to either make it more readable, fix bugs or to even add little features to make the site more usable to you. Trixie by itself does none of this. It is just a plugin for Internet Explorer that enables executing chunks of JavaScript code and thus lets you use the Web the way you want to use it.

my local tiddlywiki this link doesn’t work, I need to cut&paste it into firefox’s address line

Since I prefer Camino to Firefox for my daily use (I use Firefox for development testing mostly), I created bookmarklet versions of these scripts as well.

I have come across some interesting bad behaviour from Firefox and the Flickr site. I recently started using Flickr after holding out for quite some time. And when I finally get around to doing my photo album upgrade and turning it into a right, proper WordPress plugin I will be trying to ensure people who use it can host their photos on Flickr if they wish.

Aardvark is a Firefox extension for interactively manipulating the content on a page. It's like a second cousin of GreaseMonkey. Once it's activated you can mouseover all the elements in a page and manipulate each one by making it wider, narrower, removing it, viewing source etc. I couldn't see a way of making these changes persistent between visits but it's a neat little tool for making adjustments to pages for readability or printing. Besides, it's just cool that you can even do this kind of thing. (via Jeff Barr)

Some bright guy developed a search toolbar for FF that can search Code Project to find articles and other stuff. For anyone looking for samples or references for source code this might be really useful.

As I sit here, tapping away on my Mac, I have two web browsers open (Safari and Firefox), both of which have built-in RSS support, as well as a dedicated RSS aggregator (NetNewsWire Lite).

forevergeek.com has a useful guide on speeding up firefox for broadband users. basically after getting to the hidden config settings you set the browser to request more data that it usually does.

Sans aucune prétention autre que de les faire connaître, voici quelques extensions fort pratiques que j’utilise pour mon installation de Mozilla Firefox.

Short note: Two great developments are available that build on the Greasemonkey tool for the Firefox browser. Platypus allows you to modify a web page from your browser, and then save the changes for next time you browse through. Julien Couvreur has released a very nice Ajax debugger that shows XMLHttpRequests in real-time and techno-color.

Both frameworks are based upon a XML markup language that is rendered into Macromedia Flash (6 for Laszlo, 7 for Flex) that is displayed on the users browsers. As Flash is now a standard component on IE (with XP SP2) and Firefox, penetration should not be that much of an issue. Also, both can be compiled into native Flash (swf files) that can be hosted on a standard Web server, without the necessary application server (that becomes a development/test component), allowing a wider development community to use and host these frameworks at little or no cost. For more complex applications, support is provided for remote data access through RPC, etc, requiring some form of server data source, but this could be as simple as XML file or a traditional LAMP setup. Laszlo therefore can be deployed at no cost onto a typical ISP configuration, not requiring complex J2EE or Servlet containers to be developed.

OK, http://www.start.com/myw3b/ does not work well with my Firefox. This is what I am using:

Below is a list of some of my favorite Firefox extensions. We’ve discussed some of these on TipMonkies before, but check them out. You can find these and more at the Mozilla Update site.

Earlier today I noticed that things were running slowly and I fired up the Windows Task Manager. Firefox was using over 120MB. Now I had not logged off or even restarted Firefox in probably a week. I just leave it running. I also had probably 15 tabs open.

One way for a hacker to attacked your computer is by using a spoofed site. Spoofed sites are also used by spammers, spyware creators, and all sorts of people you don’t want taking control of your computer or information. Spoofed sites are made to look like a legimate sites (eBay is a popular one to spoof), but redirect you to another page. In order to detect whether a site is a spoofed site or not, check out Spoofstick, a completely free extension available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox users. Spoofstick displays a toolbar on your...

DaveN pointed at a cool new FireFox plugin that shows the IP address your search results are coming from.

I found a really (and I mean really) cool Firefox plugin today. It allows you to view price comparisons at major bookstores automatically.

…to figure out how to use Firefox’s Adblock extension to block their extremely A N N O Y I N G javascript ad ticker. KTUL’s was easy enough.

I re-published a very interesting tutorial I found on a blog (with permission) which explains how you can create your own extension for Mozilla Firefox (CLICK).

After that my night broke down into relaxing and watching television with the wife, skimming through the new issue of PC Magazine (which has a few fairly cool articles on things you can do to tweak Firefox’s performance,) chased a kitten around the house like a lunatic on crack, etc.

As the old techie saying goes, it's not a bug, it's a feature. Wikipedia is a free open-source encyclopedia, which basically means that anyone can log on and add to or edit it. And they do. It has a stunning 1.5 million entries in 76 languages—and counting. Academics are upset by what they see as info anarchy. (An Encyclopaedia Britannica editor once compared Wikipedia to a public toilet seat because you don't know who used it last.) Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like...

Second, these functionalities that you refer to as "bugs", are in fact functionalities. Microsoft, for the first time in their history, is making a serious push to security. So far, they have released anti-spyware software, upgraded the windows firewall, made significant improvements in IE popup blocking, and they are currently in the works to release a virus definitions. Maybe I missed it, but where are the "bugs"? Don't forget, FireFox has had security holes, Linux has had security holes, Mac has had security holes. ...

You can get a compiled version of firefox for almost any platform (mac osx/linux/windows). Microsoft should really be using their old Internet Explorer strategy and make sure that IE7 runs on all the aforementioned platforms. That is not going to happen though, we all know about IE’s nasty habit of binding to the Windows Operating system.

If you use Firefox, there is a great solution - PDF Download, an extension for Firefox by Denis Remondini, which lets you choose whether you want to view the PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML) or download it.

I’ve just started a new job and they are heavily based on Microsoft technology. Some in the company may not think so, but install a version of the fantastic web browser Mozilla Firefox and watch all the Internet technologies come crumbling down. Internet technologies that should be standard.

What is also interesting about the Netcraft article is that this is the first time an organization such as Netcraft took it's screenshots using the Mozilla Firefox browser rather than Microsoft Internet Explorer.

What's not to love about a band who uses the Mac start-up sound in a track and who openly supports Firefox in their website's opening page?

Weather forecast plugin for firefox now has doppler radar and severe weather alerts. Nice.

In these days of such worthy IE alternatives as Firefox, I’m not sure why anybody would bother wanting to use it, but before you try Netscape 8 (which is not actually related to previous versions), be ware that it breaks IE’s XML capabilities.

Then we get on the subject of standardized specification - something that FireFox and IE can't agree on. FireFox is very rigorious with the way it interprets the javascript language. The problem I ran into is the onChange event for a drop down control. The spec states that the onChange event is only suposed to fire once the value of the control is changed and focus has been lost. FireFox does this. The problem is that IE doesn't, and personally the IE model makes more sense to me. The onChange event fires whenever...

Netcraft is now offering a Firefox version of its excellent anti-phishing Toolbar.

The toolbar runs on any operating system supported by Firefox and displays the hosting location, country, longevity, popularity, and an abstracted risk rating for each site visited.

The Netcraft toolbar is one of my current favorites and now it’s available for Firefox:

New release of Piggy Bank, the Semantic Web extension for Firefox. It harvests data as you browse (when you click a status bar indicator), which can later be searched and viewed in a facetted browser.

One of the headlines they offer is Slashdot. As a frequent visitor to Slashdot, I went ahead and added that headline to my page. The very next day I started Mandriva up, opened Firefox, and there was my new home page…with a notice from Slashdot saying that my news aggregator had been banned. The statement from Slashdot said that this action had been taken because of the frequency of the pulling of headlines. I suppose Google checks for headlines as often as it checks for new mail in Gmail, once a minute. Some servers won’t put up...

By the way, if you're using Firefox/Mozilla, the best RSS Aggregator I've come across after some reading has been Sage. Very nice.

Whats another example? Well I guess I can mention Safari, since I haven't for a while :). Sure Safari is also a "fork" but let's ignore that for a while. The main developer of Safari, David Hyatt, worked on the Netscape, Camino and Firefox browsers prior to working on Safari (and KHTML). The man obviously knows his stuff, and hence MacOS users get a browser that is compliant with the latest web standards (plus it's open source as well). Whoever hired Hyatt was pretty smart. I'd bet than even if Apple didn't get the head start they did from...

And Firefox does have one clear advantage over Galeon: it can read RSS feeds. As I mentioned before, I’m reading RSS with Gnus in XEmacs these days. Which is better than not having an RSS reader, but it feels a little silly, because when a new article appears in a feed, I just click on the link to bring it up in Galeon. So why not eliminate the middle-man? Also, I’ve run into one annoying bug, and Gnus doesn’t handle new versions of RSS (Atom), which is occasionally an annoyance now and will, I suspect, be much more of one in the future.

Book Burro is awesome! If you’re using Firefox and you’re a bookaholic, then you’re going to love this great little script based on the Greasemonkey extension. When you are buying a book online, Book Burro automatically finds prices at other bookstore sites and lists them in a transparent window.

For some reason my ISP software made Firefox stop working about four months ago. Tonight, while cleaning/rearranging my desk, I disconnected the phone line from my laptop then plugged it back in post-cleaning. When I started Netscape online software again after doing this simple unplug-plug, Firefox worked again. *shrug* I'm just glad I can finally rejoin the 21st century by using Firefox and stop using IE, the web browser that is the equivalent of a rusted-out Datsun with no wheels.

If you use Firefox, get the plugin from Mozilla extension update and start stumbling. What a name, what an idea, what an execution. This is definitely one of my "woah!" in a long time.

Web Browsers is another field where they entered late, but managed to beat everyone else to become the most used brand around. So much so, that they became complacent and as a result, we have not seen any real development in the browser for years now. If it was not for the pressure from the alternative browsers Mozilla Firefox and Opera, they might not have even considered developing the Internet Explorer 7 for the current generation Operating Systems.

Well, I stumbled across this one in the logs this morning... Somehow I have got to believe that there is a better search results for "firefox es3 rpm" than my post on disk cache in linux. And for whoever was searching for it, install Gentoo, and save yourself from the pain of RPM, up2date and all the other Redhat blunders to come.

I guess no one at google is reading my blog, because I am also the top hit for "install firefox es3" as well... what can you do?

[There is a} growing gap between the really savvy web users and the plain old web users. For someone with a pimped up Firefox install, Greasemonkey, ad-blockers, flash blockers, spam filters and spyware free machines, the net is a completely different place to the one found by your average IE using office bod.

I started to blog last year, discovering a number of brand new things: RSS, flickr, gmail, firefox, wordpress, del bookmark…

In case you didn’t catch it: Firefox (incidentally, I just found out that it recently pushed ie’s market share below 90%) has released version 1.04 (download at mozilla.org), which addresses the serious security flaws found in previous versions earlier this week. It’s interesting to me that there was such a huge amount of news surrounding the vulnerability, but you could basically totally miss the fix that came three days later if you weren’t paying attention. Anyway, we can all turn our javascript back on now.

The installer on Firefox 1.04 still doesn’t run smoothly. If you download and do a fresh installation it does, it runs like a dream, but if you download and just install over the top of a previous release you may have bugs. It’s supposed to be installed into a “clean” folder, which requires that you uninstall (via the control panel) and previous version.

So if you dont allready know Mozilla Just released the latest version of Firefox 1.0.4 officaly. This is a fix two a few recent critical vulnerabilities discovered in the browsers code that involved IFRAME Javascript URLs and input passed to the IconURL parameters. I sugest if you havent allready done so that you upgrade your browser to this new version.

All this destruction and reconstruction is due to a nasty virus I couldn't eliminate. My PC had already been dragging anyway, despite vigilant firewall employment and Ad-Aware checks, so I decided to throw caution to the wind, reformatting and reinstalling XP with SP2 (I'm still not going back to MSIE, though; the tabs in Firefox are just too convenient).

Ecco un altro trucchetto davvero utile per installare il nostro benamato browser Firefox su una penna USB.

Und jetzt ist es wohl so weit. Auf der Firefox Download Seite ist die Version 1.0.4 bereitgestellt worden. Derzeit ist aber nur die englische Version verfügbar. Es kann aber nicht mehr lange dauern.

Hätte ich den ersten Bericht mal richtig gelesen und nicht quer. Ich arbeite an einem Linux Desktop *sigh*. Und ich Depp steige auf Opera um für die Zwischenzeit. Nicht das Opera schlecht wäre, aber ich mag mein Füchschen. Opera ist wieder eingemottet und Firefox 1.0.3 flitzt wieder.

Can't argue with the crappy-ness of the Online Edition of TOI - I downloaded FireFox just so I wouldn't get any of the spyware on their site or have to deal with popup windows! That being saidm, their ePaper is readable, and I highly recommend that to anybody with a high-speed net connection.

We've confirmed that this solves the security issue so if you're looking for ways to help out, testing to make sure all your favorite websites still look and function correctly, plus if you've got time running through the Firefox basic functional tests as described here would be a great place to start.

The marketing landscape is changing. Real users are taking the stage once exclusively owned by actors with fake smiles and cheesy catch phrases. Mind-hooking jingles are being replaced by tens of thousands of personal testimonials. The grass roots are growing fast and they're lifting up quality products for the world to see. SpreadFirefox is just the beginning.

I tried to import my firefox bookmarks into blogrolling and found that it only accepts OPML but not html. So i wrote a small utility that converts html to opml.

Just tried the firefox greasemonkey — I was trying to use it for enhancing the batch website snapshot-capture script: One problem of the current script is that the mozilla remote control command is asynchronos so it does not know whether the current page has been fully loaded or not before taking the snapshot and moving to the next web site; what it can do is simply to wait for a constant period of time between two web sites. Using a user script that applies to all web sites we can make sure the snapshot-capturing script is notified when every web page is completely loadedbefore it takes the snapshot.

I made a new Firefox search plugin today, for the blog serach engine Technorati. If you search for keyword(s) on Technorati, you get a list of blogs mentioning those keyword(s); if you search for a URL, you find blogs linking to that URL (e.g., blogs linking to me). I love Technorati almost as much as I love Google News :), so I was very surprised no one had made this plugin yet! [CORRECTION: Some people already had. I was going off of the "official" Firefox plugin directory, which does not list a Technorati search plugin. But I should have known...

Just got an email from AUSCERT, there has been an alert issued for Firefox, as two issues have been discovered that currently are not fixed. To add insult to injury, proof of concept and rumor has it on other sites and forums that there is code exploiting these vulnerabilities.

Switched to Firefox again and to my dismay I find that the ChinaRed theme isn’t playing so nice. So I’ve now switched to the “Desert Theme” by “Evil Bert”. It seems to work well with both Firefox and IE. It also features the calendar and has a more consistant look from post to post and page to page.

Here’s a nice article on some possibilities with Greasemonkey, the super-powerful scripting extension for FireFox. Right now I’m using Greasemonkey to run BoingBoing Butler (removes ads from BoingBoing), Book Burro (finds competitive book prices), and Linkifier (turns URLs in on-screen text into hyperlinks). If I’m feeling motivated enough I might try to augment Book Burro to search abe.com as well, but first I should probably dig into my pile of unread books.

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user’s system.

Cnet.com discusses Firefox hacks to make it cool (i'm just psyched that it doesn't crash, although it does have some awesome mods like the Down Them All extension)

Huh? So, why did FireFox prompt me to auto-update? Is this FireFox's fault, or FlashBlock's fault? Why can't the extension simply be updated?

Come on, guys. I love FireFox, but let's get on the ball. If we're ever going to even compete with Microsoft on this front, the little details need to be worked out and standardized.. this goes along with what I said earlier, about FireFox missing the mark when it comes to extensions and threading.

Speaking of the tracker, I hate our tracker. It’s not compatible with Firefox. I have to use IE to be able to update tasks. And I hate IE! Hmpft. I’m thinking of logging a request to the programmers. Ask them to check what’s preventing Firefox from making the damned thing operate properly. Our tracker’s actually a customized version of dotproject. Sana they can find a way to make it work in Firefox. Hay.

Seth Godin’s put up a thought-provoking post where he posits a new digital divide - instead of the computer-literate vs. the computerless, he sees a divide between the ‘digerati’ and the ‘left-behind’. One group uses Firefox, another uses Internet Explorer. One group has a blog, knows what RSS is, gets news from Google… one doesn’t. Seth goes on to note that the ‘digerati’ are the most-influential of all customers, and they need to be understood by any marketers that have a chance of being...

But I've run into an obscure and annoying bug. At work we run m0n0wall, a tiny firewall based on FreeBSD (and which I can heartily recommend). The only access is via a web front-end (mini_httpd with php). I found that accessing the m0n0wall with Firefox under Tiger causes the mini_httpd in m0n0wall to crash. The firewall is still running, you just can't view or change settings. It took me 3 or 4 crashes to associate them with Tiger, but then I was able to reproduce the behavior, and it was confirmed by another member of the mailing list.

If you arent using RSS Feeds, and more specificially Live Bookmarks on Firefox you are really missing out. Check out these images (click to make bigger) to see what Im feeding myself these days. Also drop a comment saying what sites you feed!.

Then go get the Google Scholar Monitor Greasemonkey script: http://scholar.dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/scholar.user.js. When your webbrowser is viewing the javascript, click “Tools”->”Install User Script”.

So based off of work pointed out here and here, I’ve made a crude search server plugin for the JHU Library catalog. Download jhucatalog.src and save it in your /searchplugins. On my home system (Win2k) it is: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins. Make sure after you save the file that it is saved with the .src extention (not with a .txt or some other extention).

The friendly people from tweakguides.com have an article on how to tweak it even more here

Corante is an interesting collection of blogs. Unfortunately, it renders so slowly in Firefox that I basically can’t stand reading it. I don’t know if it’s Firefox’s problem (IE seems to do ok), but in the meantime it’d be nice if the Corante folks fixed it (yes, I mailed a comment in)…

Anne writes about all the nice things that will be a part of Firefox 1.1. I can’t wait!

Here’s an easy and free way to check your AdSense earnings. The tool is not as extensive as the AdSense Logs I previously mentioned, but it has the convenience of being on the statusbar of my Firefox browser.

How about this- as many people as physically possible decend upon the lawns outside Microsoft HQ, Firefox t-shirts, banners, the whole lot. Attract as much mainstream publicity as possible. Wind up M$ execs so they try to have you all removed from the area. Get it captured on film, get it publicised.

Once everyone knows 50 million others have tasted the Firefox experience, we’ll be heading towards 100 million before we know it.

The thing I hate most about Firefox's search is that it makes noise like someone's biting off your testicles.

The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox Web browser passed a significant milestone in adoption on Friday, with more than 50 million copies of the program downloaded, according to its distributors.

I have the my homepage set to a wikipedia random page so I learn something new every time I start firefox (the url is “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage“). And today I got this wikipedia article amounts to not much more than an advert. It demonstrates some of the flaws of not running it through a gatekeeper I think, but given that I have been using wikipedia for ages and haven’t run into many problems like this, maybe their dispute resolution does work well. But I suspect more and more people working in PR/shills...

Now that Windows XP x64 has been released, we should decide when we will begin supporting it by providing official 64-bit builds of Firefox/Thunderbird. Plugins will probably be an issue, but since extensions are not compiled, they should have no problems running. Work has started on this front and is being tracked in bug 237202. Third party Windows x64 Firefox builds are already available.

Silicon Valley Watcher reckons that inspection of their website stats has revealed a scoop - a sighting of a Google Browser. Recent months has seen speculation from the BBC and hiring of key engineers from Microsoft and Firefox (Google Hires Firefox P... [Read More]

an excellent site containing a ton of resources on how to customize firefox to your liking. they even have a list of useful firefox extensions, some of which i already use. if you don’t want to manually edit your settings, then check out firetune for firefox....

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Thanks for the link to my Firefox tips site. Have you had good luck with Firetune? I haven’t added to the tips site yet because it seemed like it messed of my profile settings and other extensions.

As a web designer, you’d think I’d like HTTP. I don’t. Why? Look at it. Spyware, idiot flash intros, ads to get free iPods, retarded animated gifs, the list goes on! I think that everyone should go back to the good ol’ days of BBSing. I guess I’m the only one. Anyway, to show my love for a protocol that pwns, I started a gopherspace. It’s almost finished, so you should check it out and enjoy..

Well, the people at spreadfirefox.com is rather humorous. Someone created an ad to promote safe “browsing”.

Yesterday morning I noticed a change to the JavaScript/DOM getSelection() behavior in the new Safari 1.3 (in 10.3.9) and the most recent version of Firefox 1.0.3.

What Safari and Firefox now seem to be doing is creating a DOM selection object from getSelection() instead of treating it as a simple string. The result is that getSelection() appear to be a string, but few of the string manipulation functions work without additional considerations.

Further inconsistencies between Safari 1.3 and Firefox 1.0.3:

Fails silently in Safari, returns selected text in Firefox. Safari dumps this into the Console log:

I was using the length property to determine whether a selection was empty or not, then fetching the title of the window if that value was 0. Knowing that length no longer works in Firefox and Safari, isCollapsed can be used as a conditional switch.

To be clear, Opera's download is *tiny*, well under 4MB, about half that of Firefox. But really, now that dial-up is for chumps, I don't know how much of an advantage it can remain. I haven't done the math, but I'd think in terms of filled UI space at default install - that is where Opera's impression of bloat mostly comes from. The word Opera must learn to hate is clutter.

I think Opera is starting to think huge. They want the huge market of people who don't want much from their browser. As long as it has a back button - they're set. For these people, Speed, Security, Simplicity is a great reason to move over in reaction to bad press/bad spyware (deserved or not) for IE, or even Firefox.

putmarks is a lightweight solution for use with an XBEL bookmark synchronizing package such as the wonderful "Bookmarks Synchronizer" Firefox extension by Torisugari; both pieces of software I use for synchronizing my bookmarks between home and school everyday.

putmarks functions as the remote end for a book marks synchronizer in that it accepts HTTP GET and PUT requests, reads and writes an xbel.xml file, and also keeps a log of all transations. It is very light-weight and requires nothing more than a PHP-enabled web-server to operate.

I've just looked at the download count for my Firefox theme (https://addons.update.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Modern&numpg=10&id=370), and it has had over 1.2 million downloads.

I didn't think it was that good, and most of the comments support me on that, but it is the single most downloaded Firefox theme on the Mozilla Update website, so there can't be that much wrong with it.

Why? Well, after having some trouble with my laptop not wanting to go into sleep mode or shut down, I had to do a 'hard' shutdown (keeping the power button pressed down until it shuts off). After rebooting, all my Firefox bookmarks were gone! Not a trace left, no backup, no nothing...

It also seems I'm not the only one with this problem...

Now that over 25 million copies of Firefox went over the pipes between the release of 1.0 and 1.0.1, and the slowdown has occured, the real test is going to be whether steady growth can continue after initial hype drove the biggest open-source/Free Software advocacy campaign in history. Let’s hope so — web standards are not a fad, web security is not a fad, and Firefox is more than an alternative (like its less successful predecessors such as the still ultra-fast Opera): it’s a killer browser with good security, impeccable standards...

A pitch for Firefox security: The Mozilla Foundation passed on using a condom-themed poster to tout its Firefox browser, but volunteers want to revive the ad to emphasize the software's security features.

Credit: Spread Firefox

I have a Yahoo! account so I tried it out. I created a webmail account through the ‘New Account’ wizard and then Web Mail began downloading my messages. It stopped downloading after a while though with an error message saying it got ‘negative vibes’. I tried to log in from Firefox and was greeted with the following error message:

Unable to process request at this time — error 999

Declan (a workmate), googled the error message and referred me to this page that details the possible reasons for a 999. If the problem really is bandwidth related, then this extension is not much use if your Yahoo! account get lots of mail.

I wanted to evaluate Opera as compared to Firefox without seeing advertisements. If it turns out that the software suits my fancy, I’ll buy it. I won’t — and you certainly shouldn’t — use the following procedure to bypass advertising in the free version for any longer than is necessary for an evaluation. Opera needs to make money like any other company. Having choices...

Erin Joyce thinks Opera 8 is going to be a huge hit, but she fails to understand why Firefox has been so successful in the first place:

“Tabbed browsing? If you’re a Firefox fan – and their legions are growing because of this feature alone – you’ll find it even more appealing in Opera. After all, this crew helped promote the idea of tabbed browsing. The latest version offers tiles, cascades and panels, to name a few ways of keeping track of all the pages you’re running at once.”

My mom doesn’t want tiling. Or cascading. Or panels. She just wants a simple way to keep multiple sites open, and it’s because Firefox provides only that—without all the confusing bells and whistles—that she finds it so appealing.

Works in Firefox only but this is a pretty interesting use of the Greasemonkey script. Lickr - Flickr, without the Flash.

Firefox updated to 1.0.3 and Mozilla to 1.7.7 on Friday, both updates essentially security fixes that plugged nine and six vulnerabilities, respectively. The most substantial vulnerability was a bug in the JavaScript engine's memory heap management, which was first reported earlier this month.

The Mozilla Foundation has released new versions of the Firefox browser and Mozilla suite of programs to address several security vulnerabilities. ...

Three weeks after releasing version 1.0.2 of the Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation have released a new version which fixes critical vulnerabilities ...

Nine vulnerabilities were identified in Mozilla Suite and Firefox, which may be exploited by malicious Websites to execute arbitrary commands or conduct Cross ...

Earlier this week, I was complaining via IM to MXV about Firefox repeatedly crashed on me after trying to load several pages of content from one particular website that's loaded with ad banners, both animated gif and Flash.

And because of the number of Flash banners on that website (especially the interactive ones), it maxes out my Mac's dual processors and crashes Firefox as a result. And even without those Flash banners, there's still a ridiculous number of ad bloat... scripts, cookies, and animated gif banners... that I have to sit through to get to the content that I want to read.

MXV mentioned AdBlock, and after installing and configuring it, I can't believe it took this long for me to use it! Coupled with FlashBlock, the load times for websites should be much less than before, plus Firefox won't crash on me anymore!

The number of people visiting the Mozilla Foundation website where they can download the Firefox browser has more than doubled over the last nine months, a research firm said Wednesday.

In March, more than 2.6 million people visited the Firefox site, a 237 percent spike over June of 2004, when the site met the minimum reporting levels, Nielsen/Netratings said.

Nielsen//NetRatings reported that escalating interest in the FireFox browser garnered a 237% spike in unique visitors to the Web site from nine months ago when the site first met Nielsen//NetRatings’ minimum reporting levels in June 2004. More than 2.6 mln people visited the FireFox site during March 2005 to download the browser and obtain more information.

Males, often the early adopters of technology and gadgets, dominated FireFox’s site composition during the month of March 2005. Men accounted for 71% or nearly 1.9 mln site visitors, compared to the women who comprised of 29% or the minority population who visited in March 2005.

Traffic to Mozilla.org, the site for the Mozilla Foundation credited with developing the FireFox browser, saw a 284% year-over-year growth to 4.1 mln unique visitors. When the latest version of FireFox launched in November 2004, Mozilla.org drew its second largest audience with 3.4 mln unique visitors.

via ZDNet

I’ve just started mucking around with GreaseMonkey, an extremely handy extension for Mozilla Firefox. It let’s you “fix the web", by allowing you to run your own custom Javascript on URLs you define.

Someone has created a lightweight counterpart to the feature-rich Googlebar extension for Firefox and the Mozilla suite. Googlebar Lite strips out many of the rarely-used features of Googlebar in favor of a lean-and-mean approach to search.

I haven’t had a chance to try this yet, but I’m looking forward to giving it a shot. The full-fledged Googlebar seems to be a cause of frequent slow-downs and Firefox crashes on my home computer, though it runs just fine on my work PC (an Athlon-only problem?).

Google, Firefox, Mozilla, opensource,

I’ve been quiet since I wrote about Local Shared Object abuse on Tuesday, but that’s because I’ve been busy. Then, I said “while these new Flash cookies aren’t as easily eraseable as the ordinary variety yet, I’m sure someone will get right on it.” Well, I got right on it. I’m pleased to announce my first Firefox extension ever, Objection,...

Objection’s currently in a pretty rudimentary state - it only works for Windows, and it’s only translated into English - but I plan on building it out over time to have all the functionality and control Firefox users are used to having over plain old cookies. This will serve as a stop-gap solution until Macromedia and the Mozilla Foundation get together to release a permanent one, a solution that prevents Local Shared Objects from being used by unscrupulous (and ultimately counterproductive) marketers to subvert the wishes of everyday...

I’m hoping the people who first discussed Local Shared Objects and their threat to user privacy...

Pro: Uses Firefox’s Preferences UI.

Am I seeing the balance between this Firefox extension and the existing controls in the Macromedia Flash Player correctly here? or…?

A new extension for Firefox called Objection, has been

The FeedBurner Forum has an interesting post about how to splice your del.icio.us tags into the RSS feed for your site. So for example, I've enabled my Firefox tips feed to now include any link I add to del.icio.us and with the tag 'firefox'.

And now it’s time for a commercial interruption. This blog has been sponsored by… Mozilla. Not seriously, but I do want to brag about them for a minute. I’ve never been a big fan the Explorer web browser. Besides the often serious security issues it just isn’t very flashy or creative. I love Safari on my Mac at work and when I was told that Mozilla had a web browser that was similar to Safari I thought I’d check it out. I downloaded Firefox and gave it a try. I only had to use it for a few minutes and I was hooked. Tabbed browsing is “da bomb” and I love the optional themes to make it look different every day if I want to.

Having loved Firefox, I decided to give their other products a try. I’m now using Thunderbird exclusively for all my email on my laptop as well as Sunbird to keep myself organized. So far, there are no problems that I can see and I’ve been using them for a bit now. So if you are looking for a great email program, try Thunderbird. If you need a very cool (colorful and full of features) calendar give Sunbird a try. And if you aren’t using Firefox you don’t know what you’re missing! And did I mention - they are all free!...

Feedburner estimates, as of early January 2005, that Firefox and Thunderbird combined account for just under ten percent of all RSS feed readers which read the 800 most highly subscribed feeds that Feedburner manages. That’s a lot, and it’s growing.

Check to make sure that your feed is recognizable by both Firefox’ Live Bookmarks and Thunderbird. When you view your website with Firefox, there should be an orange cube with what looks like radiating radio waves in the lower right-hand corner of the browser bar at the bottom of the screen. Put your cursor on the orange cube to make sure that it then indicates the feeds which are available from your site. To verify that Thunderbird will work with your feed, enter your feed’s URL as I described a couple of days ago in the

Read my Mozilla vs Microsoft article if you skipped over it last month. When Microsoft finally integrates feed reading capability into its browser, it’ll have to be able to read (as-is) the same feeds that Firefox and all the other feed readers can read, at least for awhile.

And questa c’e’ pure per FireFox e anche questa poi me la installero’ anche a casa sull’iBook.

La cosa ormai piu’ seccante sul fronte Toolbar, e’ che la Google Toolbar resta sempre e comunque disponibile solo ed esclusivamente per Windows e Internet Explorer, mentre gli altri motori di ricerca stanno muovendo passi in direzione di chi usa FireFox, rendendo quindi le Toolbar compatibili con piu’ sistemi operativi.

So you’ve learned how to write your own extension. This tutorial will show you how to keep your users up to date with your latest version automatically.

Hey the spell checker for FireFox doesn’t barf on profanity and I didn’t even have to train it.

Secunia, a security research firm, found a bug in the Firefox Web Browser which could be used by malicious people in obtaining personal and sensitive information.

Secunia released an online test that permits Firefox and Mozilla users to determine if they are affected by the bug. The test showed that users are indeed affected and the way to prevent this is to disable JavaScript support. The result came six weeks after the Mozilla Foundation released a security update to the Firefox Browser, which includes several fixes that guard against spoofing and arbitrary code execution.

Web vulnerabilities are not a new thing in the system, there will always be flaws because flaws exist, said Joe Wilcox, an analyst from Jupiter Research. He also added that the focus was on how they will handle the problem and find a solution. This is the part wherein Microsoft has the advantage over Firefox: the former has a team working to eliminate vulnerabilities, while the latter has limited resources.

One of my biggest pet peeves is having to view ads when I’m surfing. They are garish and can be quite disruptive. I’ve discovered ways to block on-page ads in the two browsers I find myself using the most, Safari and Firefox (If you haven’t found a way to block pop-ups yet, you’re not even trying).

For you windows users out there, there’s a handy-dandy Firefox plugin called Adblock that will get the job done. It can be downloaded and installed here. Once installed, you can right-click on ads that you see and click either ‘Adblock Image’ or ‘Adblock iFrame’. This will prevent the image or frame from being displayed. If you’re really savvy you can use wildcards (*’s)...

You can also get RSS feeds without an aggregator if you use Firefox as your internet browser. Firefox is a free browser application that has both Windows and Macintosh versions. It is a much superior browser compared to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for many reasons including security. It’s also a nice addition to Safari for Mac users and is very handy on those rare occasions when Safari doesn’t handle a site correctly.

Firefox calls its RSS aggregating feature Live Bookmarks and an excellent explanation of how to create them is available here.

Using Firefox, here’s how you’d add a live bookmark to get the Seattle Times’ political news.

So, what’s better - setting up feeds in Firefox or using a news aggregator? The benefits of the Firefox solution include the RSS links being right in front of you. The benefits of using an aggregator may include a more attractive interface - especially if you use NewsFire - and the ability to read quickly read a summary of the article.

You may have noticed that the browser will make one request to a web page at a time, as do most web browsers currently on the internet. This is due to Firefox’s configuration for the pipelines, which you can take advantage of that by making some simple modifications to its configuration file.

Yahoo on Tuesday night plans to unveil an updated toolbar for the Mozilla Foundation's open-source Firefox browser that offers the company's Anti-Spy adware and spyware removal software for computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system. Yahoo, which recently backtracked on a pledge to make all its software compatible with Firefox, also will make its basic Firefox toolbar, without Anti-Spy, available for use with Linux and Apple Computer's Macintosh operating systems. The toolbars and Anti-Spy software are free.

I noticed some additional information about concerns regarding firefox prefetch. It happens that Google recently enabled prefetch on the first links of their search results pages, and this, in combination with the default settings of Firefox (actually all recent Mozilla browsers, I believe), is causing additional cookies to be set. The original quote is from Google & Firefox == Evil & Annoying.

I recently did a search at google for "radio shack". To my surprise, I received a cookie setting request from radio shack.com. This had never happened before- and radio shack also happened to be a sponsored link. I did other searches, such as "ford", "sony", and even "girl scouts"- and each time, the top link requested a cookie to be set. Since Girl Scouts did not have a sponsored link- I realised it must only be the top link that sets a cookie. It turned out that Mozilla browsers (that includes firefox) and Google have both enabled prefetch- although it would seem that Google only recently enabled it- as this is a new occurrence.

Internet Explorer really does suck. Everything always works the way you want it to in Firefox, but IE likes to add frustration to your life. (Ask anybody I work with.) The latest example is that anything using Flash on my site scrolls on-top of my header and footer. So my picture viewer and an object from a previous post show up on top of everything when you scroll this page. Well guess what… I’m not going to waste my time figuring out why. Enjoy the new stuff. I have some picture up for you enjoyment.

If you like trying out new toys and have an interest in the annotated web, webbed footnotes wants you. Part of an MSc project at MIT, webbed footnotes is a firefox plugin that allows users to post annotations to web pages, as well as read and rate the annotations of others. It's very news-focused, at least at the moment - testers are only able to try it out with NY Times stories. There are, of course, similar projects floating around. One of my favourites is stumbleupon,...

I have tried not to put anything tech related on this site since this site is not about tech, but I am a bit of a tech junkie so I think I may add a few tech bits. I have decided that since RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds have changed the way I use the internet that I would just give a quick rundown about them. With an RSS reader on your computer you can be notified automatically of site updates. I use Firefox as my web browser (like most people should unless you like pop ups and spyware) instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer so I use a plugin for Firefox called Sage as my feed reader. What this does is add a side window to my browser, that I can turn on and off, and lists all the site’s feeds that I have subscribed to. It also shows which feeds have been updated almost like an email program lets you see what email has been read and what is unread. There are many different types of RSS readers available depending on your operating system or needs, just do a search on google for “RSS readers". Of course this will only work if your favourite sites have RSS feeds. I have two RSS feeds, one is for my main blog page (the blog is what you are reading now) here, and one for the gallery here. These links are to be read by RSS readers so clicking on them will just display the code. In order to subscribe to these feeds copy and paste the links into your feed reader. I had more on this (maybe I will add it later if there is interest) but this is already pretty long. If there are any questions email me or post a comment.

:: I’ve been experimenting with using a thumbnail preview extension for Google hits when searching in Firefox or browsing through my del.icio.us bookmarks. I’m quite surprised by how often it actually does help me scan a hit list faster than a list sans images, especially when I’m searching for something I’ve seen or visited before.

I stumbled into Scholar Monitor this afternoon, which looks like an interesting little Firefox add-on. I installed the script — one of several I have running thanks to Greasemonkey — and I now have a very handy little current awareness service whenever I visit Google Scholar.