The new name and face of Firebird was released earlier today.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox Personally I think the browser is good, but the name is terrible. Then again, just like most names, I'll probably grow to like it.
What's your opinion on either the browser or its new name?
Oh come on, that's the 3rd name of this program in the last few months..
Yeah, I know, but apparently this time they won't have any legal issues with it...
Oh, really? Just do a google search for that name. I see a pyrotechnics company, a safety products company, a movie..............
I love that movie...
"Think Russian, think Russian"
Did I miss something or does Firefox not have an email link, to open the mail program?
I think firebir.. err.. FOX is just the standalone browser, thrunderbird is the email program. You'll have to download that, or else download Mozilla 1.6 which comes with a mail program. I may be wrong of course... that happens sometimes.
Since Firebird/fox is the browser portion of Mozilla, it could sort of be thought of as a child of Mozilla.
Therefore, in my opinion, it should be called Mozuki. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to why (hint: you needed to be watching cartoons in the early to mid-80's)
--mark
:sniff: I want to use Mozilla but use outlook for my mail, darn packaged deals!
I've made the switch FireFox it but I still miss all the features of the real IE Google Toolbar.
Originally posted by usr bin geek:
I've made the switch FireFox it but I still miss all the features of the real IE Google Toolbar.
then download the Firefox Google Toolbar
I wonder if .9 still crashes on Ensim filesystems lol
I dunno, I've been on the Moz 1.8 nightly builds for a while. I've tried Firefox at home, but I seem to like real Mozilla better. Some of the things in Firefox are well...different. Then again, I've been using Mozilla since 0.8 so I'm a bit biased
The reason I don't use firefox is due to it crashing with Ensim... As I use ensim at work it's a PITA when all my tab's close when i'm in the middle of working on a server...
Cause: when using "log out" or rebooting a server from the Ensim UI firefox will crash as soon as it loads the logout page... Mozilla works fine on it however...
Originally posted by Ian Spence:
then download the Firefox Google Toolbar
Ahh! I didn't know they had one. Found it and now I don't mind using FireFox as much!
Yeh there are tons of mozilla tools at
www.mozdev.com i think it is...
Firefox is nowhere near as good on a mac as it is on a windows box. Camino seems half decent though. Still messing with it.
I upgraded to .9 about an hour after it was released. Sadly, I rolled back to .8 about 4 hours after upgrading to .9 after realising that .9 was probably rushed to get it out less than a week later than anticipated, so it was still quite buggy. There were still bugs nominated to block its release, for crying out loud, why did they release it?
This is probably the first Moz release that I've actually felt disappointed with.
I wasn't impressed with firefox one bit; i mean if the browser crashes when loging out of an ensim enviroment it can't be used by me as all of our servers use them...
0.9.1 was released. to upgrade, right under your scrollbar, in the far right part of your taskbar in Firefox 0.9, click the 1
grazi, hopefully a little less buggy
I believe that's the idea of the .1
Originally posted by Ian Spence:
0.9.1 was released. to upgrade, right under your scrollbar, in the far right part of your taskbar in Firefox 0.9, click the 1
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one more time, for the slower of us, please.
screw it, just to go their website
Yikes I have Firefox .09 I just downloaded .9.1 I really don't see a difference at all between the two.
So, until I get used to my newer Firefox. I keep using my Opera 7.0. I know like whatever right, LOL.
Blessings,
Kristi
I do like some of the improvements on 0.9.1 and it has some neat plugins for the geeks of the crowd
I wonder if it works with Ensim now :x... Anyone have access to an ensim system? if so, enter it, then click logout and tell me if it crashes :x
Sorry Gizzy. I access to DirectAdmin and Plesk.
You could visit
Ensim\'s Demo and see if you can get it to crash
The demo isn't a live setup; it's just a look alike with redirects sadly so it woudln't replicate the issue. I may test it out later on when i get some time and things calm down at work
0.9.2 out today. Fixes a big security hole (on XP and w2k). You should upgrade immediatley
I'm checkin out the latest version and it looks like they may have finally pounded out the issue with Ensim! (hadn't set a server reboot request yet, but then again i don't do those that often)...
I also notice that a new version of mozilla is out so I also upgraded that...
All in all I've always been impressed with the Mozilla line; two of my favorite browsers and i have minimal issues with them... Great work
...
Originally posted by Mark Badolato:
0.9.2 out today. Fixes a big security hole (on XP and w2k). You should upgrade immediatley
I have a Mac
This not only affects Firefox, but also Mozilla 1.x and Thunderbird. For those who want the gory details, visit
http://www.mozilla.org/security/shell.html
thanks a bunch for the link, and that patch was suprisingly easy to install.
Originally posted by navaho:
I have a Mac
So do I, in addition to my winbox at home.
My question is, when did you get your mac, and what did you get?
Who'd have thought the day when both Nav and I were running Macs, and not only enjoying it, but proud of the fact!?!!?
I love Firefox, but I've noticed some weird things that happen with UBB:
1 - it seems to have trouble logging out. I'll log out of my board, and it says "logged out," but when I return I'm still logged in.
2 - new message lights are erratic
3 - (most annoying) if there are a lot of graphics on the page, it won't load the page all the way to the bottom until it's finished loading the graphics. On a UBB thread, this means that you don't see the newest posts or the reply box until it has loaded everything else. (It also happens with other non-UBB sites too.)
I don't have these problems on MSIE, and I imported my MSIE settings when I installed it. Has anyone else noticed these things?
quote:
1 - it seems to have trouble logging out. I'll log out of my board, and it says "logged out," but when I return I'm still logged in.
actually that's probably caused by using frames with your ubb
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[qb]2 - new message lights are erratic[/qb]
actually that's probably caused by using frames with your ubb
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3 - (most annoying) if there are a lot of graphics on the page, it won't load the page all the way to the bottom until it's finished loading the graphics. On a UBB thread, this means that you don't see the newest posts or the reply box until it has loaded everything else. (It also happens with other non-UBB sites too.)
Firefox has never done that for me on any site I've visited. I actually find it loads things a little faster than IE
nope, it's not frames. I have the same problem without frames, and in fact, I just tried logging out on this board, and the same thing happened -- I logged out, even shut down the browser, opened a new browser, and came back in, and here I am posting.
It might have something to do with my configuration of Firefox, but I can't imagine what.
make sure you are always using the same domain (ie,
www.ubbdev.com all the time, not ubbdev.com)
Originally posted by Mark Badolato:
Originally posted by navaho:
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I have a Mac
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So do I, in addition to my winbox at home.
My question is, when did you get your mac, and what did you get?
Who'd have thought the day when both Nav and I were running Macs, and not only enjoying it, but proud of the fact!?!!?
I got it about 3 weeks ago, give or take a few days. It's a
15 nch powerbook with 1 gig of RAM.
I never would have imagined I'd have a Mac, but once I realised that a computer is a computer is a computer there became no reason not to. It's still UNIX with a different front end on it. I can run KDE on it if I really flle like I'm lost.
very cool
for those who missed it, they released Firefox 0.9.3 to address more security concerns.
I wonder when it'll hit 1.0... Or if theil go like 0.9.9a-z lol
It's at 1.0
well 1.0PR to be precise
And there is a security concern in the PR.
More Info and Patch/New Version:
http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-10-01-02.html
Fixed it
'sout now, go get your copy! Then again at the time of release (till now) their sites been a wee bit slow
... I'm mirroring a copy at
http://mirror.undergroundnews.com/Programs/ for those who are experiacing any issues with their homepage this morning.
Pages created with FrontPage dont show properly in Firefox !? Even SubZeros' summary page looks little different
did you notice the difference?
Felix
PS
UBBDev sidebar links bar is little off.
I have noticed a bit of a difference between IE and Firefox. I did the majority of my testing with Firefox.
be good for christmas and adopt a little Firefox
![[Linked Image]](https://ubbdev.com/ubb/upload/00002246/firefoxdetail.jpg)
image by survivebadblood.com http://www.mozilla.org/firefox
Firefox flies into over drive
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20453 Is it a bird... is it a plane..?
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 30 December 2004, 22:09 Tyan Tomcat i7221 Server board
ASK ANY OF FIREFOX'S avid supporters and they'll tell you it's the fastest browser around, true or not. Well, the INQ's stumbled on a little tweak that's easy to do and sends the browser into overdrive.
All you've got to do is type "about:config" into your address bar, wait for it to load, then alter the following entries: change "network.http.pipelining" to "true", "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" and lastly "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 30, meaning it will be able to make 30 requests at once.
Don't bother if you're one of the unlucky sods still without broadband, but if you are, then give it a shot. I've tried it out and it works like a charm. Thanks to forevergeek.com! ų
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Tried it here at work. Seems to help some. *shrug*
It wasn't something I noticed a dramatic differance with, but I will admit some
you can also set browser.turbo.enabled to true it will speed up things and reduce the memory used
Here's a nice firefox extension I found at the evedev site
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ Works well for developers
Some other very worth while extensions are:
BBCode - Adds BBCode to the context menu for forums.
BookmarkSynchronizer - Sync your bookmarks across all your computers. VERY USEFUL!
downTHEMall! - Download all images on a page based on their extension and other settings.
AutoMarks - Use the location bar to autocomplete URLs from your bookmarks! VERY USEFUL!
Image Zoom - Adds zoom functionality to images
Tiny URL - Easily create TinyURLs of the page your viewing from with in firefox
CopyURL+ - Copy the URL of the current page along with the title or the selected text.
FirefoxView - If you still use IE sometimes this will allow you to select a link to open in Firefox.
Sorry, I don't have time right now to grab the links for all of them so you'll need to google their names.
my favorites:
Disable targets for downloads - It no longer opens a new firefox window to download files
Plain Text Links - if there is a url that isn't hyperlinked, you can just highlight it and open it in a new tab
Adblock - Best Ad Blocker Ever
Webdeveloper
Tabbrowser preferences - preferences for tabs
quote:
Plain Text Links - if there is a url that isn't hyperlinked, you can just highlight it and open it in a new tab
You can already do this - select the text and drag it into the tab bar.
Firefox 1.0.2 is out for those who don't know
I couldn't miss the huge orange circle at the top of my skin... lol...
After upgrading check your Extensions for updates as many are being updated as well.
Firefox singed by eight security holes APRIL 18, 2005 (TECHWORLD.COM) - Firefox has been hit by eight security flaws, six of which are also found in the older Mozilla suite.
nothing makes me feel better than finding out about exploits a week after they were fixed on my system
Mozilla fixes \'extremely critical\' Firefox bugs MAY 12, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - The Mozilla Foundation has patched two "extremely critical" security holes in its Firefox browser by releasing an updated version of the browser. Firefox 1.0.4 was posted to the Mozilla.org Web site late yesterday. ...
I heard about the problem 5 days ago; I'm suprised it took so long...
Firefox update completes busy patching day
Register - 2 hours agoFirefox users are urged to update their web browser software following the discovery of a slew of security vulnerabilities. Version 1.0.5 of the popular web browser addresses nine security bugs while also incorporating stability improvements. ...
I decided that I'm gonna try Firefox for a day or two, if it's cool I'll switch
Gizzy likie teh FireFox...
Firefox growth is checked "The growth in popularity of Firefox appears to have been checked for the time being. For the first time since its November 2004 release, the Web browser's share of total Internet usage fell."
What's up with that? Word of security exploits slowing down adoption?
FireFox 1.5.0.1 released.
I downloaded and began using it last night - no major bugs noted yet
beta 3 is out.
One thing I am liking about IE7 is that when you minimize it to the tray, it releases memory back into the wild. I have had 13 tabs open all day now and the memory was up to 173mb
I minimized it to the bottom and memory went down to 11mb
Right now memory is at 55mb after pulling it back up.
Firefox is using more than 66mb after being open less than 7 minutes.
I fear that these improvements with IE7 will either make FFox listen to the outcry of memory usage, or break the cammel's back...
'fear'?, you mean 'welcome'
competition is good
Yes, but M$ is downright dirty and unethical...
"The new version is the first upgrade to the web browsing program for more than five years." -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6066650.stmhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie
First security hole is also 'released'. This message comes some minutes after the relase announce of IE
Thats just greeeeaaaattt...
I've just installed IE7 and the interface looks weird
I think that Opera is still the best browser out there
opera is still being used?
Thats what I was thinking...
I keep a current install of Opera on my Windows machines. I've always liked their keyboard shortcuts.
Ya, I use Firefox and love it!!
