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 [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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 delimiter line containing (only) [...]