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Firefox product placements

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed that I’ve developed a habbit: Whenever I see a browser in the media, be it television shows, commercials, screenshots on web sites, I automatically check to see what browser and OS is being used.
Very often, Firefox is the browser being used. Today, on CNN.com, I saw another instance.

It’s [...]

Mozilla Application Suite upgrade path

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(I purposely left out a ‘both’ option. )

Gecko is Gecko

I just read a post by Robert Kaiser in mozilla.dev.general, that contains a great link:
http://www.geckoisgecko.org/
I see it as something like www.googleityoumoron.com, but for web developers. It might be useful for users of Mozilla-based browsers, other than Firefox.
The Mozilla Developer Center also has a good article on Browser Detection and Cross Browser Support, if you come [...]

Removing ‘Remove All’

Here’s a question: Using any of Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, the Mozilla Suite, or Netscape, have you ever purposely clicked on the ‘Remove All’ button, in the password manager?
Follow up question: Have you ever clicked on it by accident?
Clicking on it by accident, is easy, when it sits right beside ‘Remove’ button. Luckily, the closest I’ve [...]

Outlook and OE address book support in Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey (and even the Mozilla Suite and Netscape 7) can actually be set up to use your Outlook Express address book, and/or your Outlook Contacts list. It’s just another one of those features that are not in the user interface.
To make Thunderbird use your Outlook Express address book, close Thunderbird, and add [...]

Browser and Mailnews FAQs Restructured

Well, I finally did it. A little while ago, I posted about my browser and mailnews FAQs being too big for one page, and that I was considering giving each FAQ item its own page. I contemplated using a content management system, but in the end decided to get rid of template content that I [...]

XPI blocking whitelist in the Mozilla Application Suite

Many people don’t know this, but the XPI blocking feature in Firefox is also in the Mozilla Application Suite, starting at version 1.7 and up. They just couldn’t get a user interface for it, on time for Mozilla 1.7.
By default, the “Enable Software Installation” setting will not block anything. Simply unchecking it, will turn XPI [...]

Digitally signing newsgroup posts

I recently did some testing of SMIME signed newsgroup messages. First, I guess I should state how I achieved it in Mozilla Thunderbird (also works in Mozilla Application Suite, and Netscape 7):
First, set up one of your mail accounts to have a certificate for digital signing. Close Mozilla Thunderbird, and open your prefs.js file. The [...]

Your browser is NOT outdated

Today Netscape 8 was released; so I went to Netscape.com to download it. I was automatically redirected to a detour page, with this message [click on image for the full page]:

I’m using Firefox 1.0.4. Netscape 8 is based on Firefox 1.0.3.
Folks, if you get this message, don’t believe it. It’s a lie. The only browser [...]

A Proper Signature

For those who didn’t know;
RFC Standard
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/news/doc/so1036.txt
“signatures”: short closing texts, auto-matically added to the end of articles by posting agents, identifying the poster and giving his network addresses etc. If a poster or posting agent does append a signature to an article, the signature SHOULD be preceded with a [...]