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| 2013/6/26-8/13 [Computer/Domains, Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54697 Activity:nil |
6/26 This ones for you psb -ausman
http://25.media.tumblr.com/027fe67c84c2288cc16e9c85db690834/tumblr_mp0ag8DCQI1qzwozco1_1280.jpg
\- that's pretty good. i wish someone had put the idea to be before i saw
it on the internet, so see if i'd have put the 9 justices in the same
boxes. JOHN PAUL STEVENS >> All the sitting justices. --psb
\- that's pretty good. i wish someone had put the idea to be before i
saw it on the internet, so see if i'd have put the 9 justices in the
\- that's pretty good. i wish someone had put the idea to me before i
saw it on the internet, to see if i'd have put the 9 justices in the
same boxes. JOHN PAUL STEVENS >> All the sitting justices. --psb
\_ tell us about the city, ausman. |
| 2013/3/21-5/18 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54632 Activity:nil |
3/21 Browser Plug-In you must get: Ghostery. It gets rid of a bunch of
ad trackers on a web site, resulting in really fast load times.
For example, a typical media site will require 10-15 trackers
(you know, those URLs that track your activities so they can
target you better). Ghostery kills them.
\_ This has been working well for me, and breaks fewer things
than NoScript etc. |
| 2012/5/18-7/20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54392 Activity:nil |
5/18 On my Win7 machine, I've been using a PuTTY ssh session to soda as a
proxy for my FireFox to bypass my company's OpenDNS when I visit
http://tv.yahoo.com and so on. It has been working fine for a long while.
However, in the past couple weeks or so, my FireFox would either take
several minutes to load the page, or failes to load it after several
minutes. I haven't changed any settings on my Win7 machine. Rebooting
didn't help either. Is there any change on soda recently that could
cause this? Thanks. |
| 11/23 |
| 2012/5/9-6/4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Virus] UID:54386 Activity:nil |
5/9 "Viewing child pornography online not a crime: New York court ruling"
http://www.csua.org/u/wcp (news.yahoo.com) |
| 2012/4/23-6/1 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54360 Activity:nil |
4/19 My Firefox 3.6.28 pops up a Software Update box that reads "Your
version of Firefox will soon be vulnerable to online attacks." Are
they planning to turn off some security feature in my version of
Firefox?
\_ Not as such, no, but they're no longer developing this version,
so if a 3.6.x-targeted hack shows up, you're not going to get
any official patch or release to fix it. Major suckage for
those of us with PowerPC Macs, since FF4+ and Chrome don't
run on our machines.
\_ Try TenFourFox:
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox
\_ Interesting! Now if I could just get a decent Flash plugin. |
| 2012/2/5-3/26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54300 Activity:nil |
2/5 How is Firefox on version 10, while I still have 3.6 installed.
I wait for the X.1 versions and they never come out.
\_ I'm also on 3.6.26. It claims that versions 4 - 10 are all faster
than 3.6.x, but do they use more memory? Thx.
\_ Newer Firefox versions use less memory too:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/mozillas_memshrink_program_brings_big_memory_savings_firefox_7
\_ Mozilla rarely does X.1 builds now, they just release X+1.
You could try the new ESR builds:
<DEAD>wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal<DEAD>
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html |
| 2010/9/13-30 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53956 Activity:nil |
9/13 Blah blah android blah, ok other than the bootjack stomp of the
phone marketing crap of this, does anyone know where to find the old
Android TCL scripting framework that was used for automating
and controlling desktop apps (like mozilla for example). Thx. |
| 2010/7/13-8/11 [Computer/Domains, Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53883 Activity:nil |
7/13 http://www.newsweek.com/1995/02/26/the-internet-bah.html Why The Internet will never amount to anything. \_ More like why I try as much as possible to never buy anything online. \_ It's funny but when you started to be able to buy flights online the whole "fly by standby" thing just dissappeared. Sigh. \_ What, you expect spontaneity to be a cultural trademark of the nerd generation? |
| 2010/4/28-5/10 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/WWW/Server] UID:53806 Activity:nil |
4/28 I just discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan and the account ~genehkan. How depressing. Did anyone here know him? What was he like? \_ motd has link to more info than wiki: http://csua.com/?entry=25306 \_ guess what. he was depressed. \_ I didn't know him but he seemed pretty nice and geeky. He was active in the XCF, but I don't think that exists anymore. \_ He told me he got to meet Lars and he had come up with a good way to move forward with internet music. Then he "suicided". \_ No, but I was friends with the Naked Guy when he was at Cal. \_ The Naked Girl lived at my coop. \_ It was really funny how fast after he died that the sysadmins of csua and xcf purged all his mail/accounts/homedirs. |
| 2010/2/18-3/9 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53713 Activity:nil |
2/18 Why is there now Firefox 3.5.8 when there was already 3.6 a month ago?
\_ Why is there Windows XP SP3 when there was already Vista?
Generally companies manage patches for at least two levels of
product. -tom
\_ I see. So Fx 3.6 is more like a new version than an update to
3.5.x. --- OP
\_ 3.6 is not an automatic update from 3.5, at least yet, so
they're both being maintained. -tom |
| 2010/1/11-25 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53625 Activity:nil |
12/9 Does anyone know when Firefox will support Win7? I can't find a
roadmap page on http://mozilla.org. Thx. |
| 2010/1/11-25 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53623 Activity:nil |
1/10 http://www.onlineeducation.net/porn 35% of internet downloads are porn!!! \_ I am surprised that it is so low. \_ It'd be much higher if there's no site-blocking software for parental control, etc. |
| 2009/12/24-2010/1/19 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Security] UID:53601 Activity:nil |
12/18 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/12/10/2115238/Best-Way-To-Clear-Your-Name-Online Useful for some of you CSUAers \_ Yeah, the advice is pretty obvious, just generate a bunch of relavent positive information about yourself and bury the old bad stuff on the fifth page of Google results. |
| 2009/12/13-2010/1/13 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53593 Activity:nil |
12/12 http://www.axiis.org/examples/BrowserMarketShare.html# An unusual visualization of browser market share from 2002-now \_ 1. Is it coincidence that it looks so much like the Firefox logo? 2. Is Chrome eating away Firefox's share? \_ Chrome's user base is pretty much the same user base as Firefox user base, and to some extent, Safari. The reasaon is you're not going to convince a large % of IE users to switch to anything else. \_ Is this about number of installations, or number of web accesses originated from these browsers? |
| 2009/12/2-9 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53556 Activity:nil |
12/2 IE usage down but still kicking the majority ass. Chrome is also
rising up high, almost at the Safari level. Firefox isn't
doing badly either. Sorry Opera, you had your chance.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/12/november-2009-browser-stats-ie8-passes-ie7.ars
\_ As long as Opera is the only browser you can use on your Wii,
I see a fine long life ahead of it.
\_ I use Opera on my Blackberry. |
| 2009/10/1-21 [Computer/SW/Database, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53423 Activity:nil |
10/1 Why Larry Ellison is such an ignorant fool:
http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/10/01/larry-ellison-still-hates-cloud-computing-nonsense-video |
| 2009/10/1-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53417 Activity:moderate |
10/1 I am thinking of installing firefox on soda under my home directory.
Will this make me a hozer?
\_ Possibly. I wonder if we should have another VM for that...btw,
I remember someone saying they're glad we're not on FreeBSD
anymore, but last I checked, a bunch of our stuff is on FreeBSD,
but our login server is not.
\_ Installing it would not make you a h0zer, but running it might.
\_ Why do you want to do this?
\_ I hear that I can get some journal articles for free
if I'm on the inside of a university, but would have
to pay for them if I went there directly.
\_ That would be filed under 'being a hoser'. Get real. Also
What kind of nerd are you? Don't run firefox on Soda.
Download/write a perl www proxy, or better yet SSH to
Soda and open a socks proxy that you can run Firefox on
your local machine through.
\_ Just use lynx + curl to do the same thing.
\_ Use ssh -D, you idiot.
\_ 1. Can I do the same with PuTTY in XP?
2. How do I tell FireFox to use this?
Thanks. -- another idiot, !OP
\_ Yes, Putty can do it too. Dynamic proxy on port 8080.
Firefox natively supports SOCKS proxies.
\_ When my FireFox uses the "No proxy" setting, every
time I go to a site it goes through the DNS on the
company network which blocks some sites. How do I
force FireFox to go through the "proxy" or "tunnel"
that PuTTY has just set up on the local machine?
-- PP
\_ set it to use socks proxy on whatever port
\_ Specifically, use "Manual proxy configuration".
Enter "localhost" for the SOCKS proxy, and
whatever port number you picked for the dynamic
port forwarding in PuTTY as the port number.
If you want DNS to go through the proxy too,
go to about:config, type "dns", and set
"network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to true.
\_ It works! The first few minutes I tried
http://www.yahoo.com or any other site, I
only got a blank page and no error message.
But when I try again now, it works! Thank
you MOTD! |
| 2009/8/8-14 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Security] UID:53254 Activity:low |
8/6 mrauser, what ddya think of this:
http://www.nplusonemag.com/node/678/print
\_ Sorta tl;dr. It seems pretty dense, so I'll read it eventually...
just haven't really had the time. -mrauser
\_ yep, it's dense but pretty good. - !OP |
| 2009/7/27-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53202 Activity:low |
7/27 Last night I tried to update Firefox 2.0.0.12 on a machine that I
have used in a long while. I had to do "Check for Updates" four times
to update it all the way to the latest version. It updated in this
sequence:
2.0.0.12 -> 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.10 -> 3.0.12 -> 3.5.1
Amazing.
\_ Part of it is update mechanisms change... another part is probably
that 2.0.0.20 was probably a minor update that downloaded a couple
of dlls and an exe... 2->3->3.5.1 is a full sized update. |
| 2009/7/24-27 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53191 Activity:kinda low |
7/24 Firefox 3.5.1 on MacOS is a piece of crap. It crashes ALL THE TIME.
It has crashed 3 or 4 times on me in the last hour, and not on
the same pages either. The new Yahoo! home page also sucks ass.
\_ os x keeps trashing my raid disk: '11 hours to rebuild. have fun
with the kernel IO subsystem running like shit until then".
Worthless piece of shit.
\_ s/3\.5\.1// I've used it for years and the only thing keeping me on is
the extensions. |
| 2009/7/23-8/6 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:53189 Activity:nil |
7/23 Berkeley's CSUA MOTD is now on rss/atom. You can subscribe it from your
favorite rss/atom reader (e.g. Google Reader, Yahoo homepage, Safari,
Firefox, using the link below:
http://csua.com/feed
If you prefer a more traditional HTML way of viewing motd, you can go here:
http://csua.com/24/?incr=1
And of course if you prefer staring at terminals, you can just stare
at /etc/motd.public. Enjoy! -kchang |
| 2009/7/21-24 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53175 Activity:kinda low |
7/21 Erin Andrews
http://www.csua.org/u/ond (sports.yahoo.com)
Is that her nipple showing through the jacket?
\_ This is what you really wanted to see:
http://thevideobay.org/vids/867-480x360.ogg (NSFW)
To me it seems contrived that she would be curling her hair
in the nude right in front of a peephole right when this
jackass filmed her. I could follow my girlfriend with a camera
for a week and likely not get such footage.
\_ nice. I was bored and clicked on your .ogg. THANKS. Worth it.
\_ How do I open .ogg files? It looks like crap in Windows Media
Player -- half the time the frames are pixelated.
Player -- half the time the frames are pixelated with random
colors.
\_ The video is kinda crappy, but I used Firefox 3.5.1.
\_ I see. My Firefox 3.0.11 said it doesn't know how to open
it, so I saved the file and used Media Player. -- PP
\_ Upgrade Firefox and try again. |
| 2009/7/16-24 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53146 Activity:nil |
7/15 Any comment on Firefox 3.5? Better or worse than 3.0? Thx.
\_ currently has an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability,
don't upgrade yet. -tom
\_ Ooh, glad that I asked. Thanks!
\_ 3.5.1 just released fixes it, supposedly. Might be worth
waiting a few days to see how it shakes out. -tom
\_ FYI it runs on win2k FWIW.
\_ http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9137
\_ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#super-speed |
| 2009/7/4-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:53111 Activity:low |
7/4 Is there a web browser available on soda? My employer has a firewall
blocking some web sites.
\_ How about setting up a web proxy on Soda?
\_ Use links :)
\_ lynx?
\_ Best text only web browser is elinks, it even supports some
js - danh
\_ that makes it exploitable
\_ ssh -D 8080 http://soda.berkeley.edu and set firefox to use a socks proxy on
localhost:8080. If you're using putty then googlit, you can do it with that
too. Also consider using other privacy tools like portable firefox, so they
can't look at your history.
\_ how do you run ssh over that proxy (i mean making an ssh
session appear that it's coming from soda, not my workplace)
\_ Do you really value your job low enough to risk getting caught
evading the company firewall? |
| 2009/6/29-7/15 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Reference/Military, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:53084 Activity:nil |
6/29 Browser war usage percentage:
http://business.swivel.com/charts/1809-Browser-version-market-share
\_ Why is Firefox 2.0 going up recently when 3.0 has already been
released for a year? |
| 2009/5/13-20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52991 Activity:nil |
5/13 "Surprise! Daydreaming Really Works the Brain"
http://www.csua.org/u/o8t (news.yahoo.com)
Gotta show this to my boss. Where's the article that someone posted a
few months ago about surfing the web at work improving productivity?
\_ "Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees: study"
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090402/tc_nm/us_work_internet_tech_life \_ Page not found
\_ http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2009/04/reuters_us_work_internet_tech_life |
| 2009/4/2-5 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52783 Activity:nil |
4/2 "Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees: study"
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090402/tc_nm/us_work_internet_tech_life
\_ So says Reuter+Yahoo employees that love browsing the web |
| 2009/3/19-23 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52731 Activity:moderate |
3/19 Any comments on IE8? How's its memory usage?
\_ Who cares. Microsoft will eventually push it onto everyone.
Accept your fate.
\_ Well, if IE8 uses less memory than Firefox 3, I'll get it now
instead of wait for it to be pushed. |
| 2009/3/11-17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52699 Activity:moderate |
3/10 How do I stop firefox from auto-suggesting porn site that I
visited six months ago? I don't really mind but would like to
know how to clear that history from the browser.
\_ Tools->Clear Private Data
\_ I tried that, but when I type www.xh it "helpfully" displays
the porn site I went to a week ago.
\_ Ctr-Shft-Del
\_ Hey, that's awesome. Now no one will ever know I once went
to http://rushlimbaugh.com
\_ A related question: How do I stop FireFox from auto-suggesting
sites from my Bookmarks? Thx. -- !OP |
| 2009/1/26-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52472 Activity:kinda low |
1/26 is there a Firefox extension that lets me change what
proxy I am connected to? Foxyproxy appears to not redirect
in several circumstances.
\_yes.
\_ oh you're back.
\_ if you have to ask you don't know (and we're not telling)
\_ We want information!
\_ Who are you?
\_ Information wants to be free! |
| 2009/1/12-15 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Recreation/Media] UID:52364 Activity:kinda low |
1/12 http://www.netflix.com/Search?ff2_submit.x=7&ff2_submit.y=19&v1=still+life Kicks slumdog's ass. \_ why do people like slumdog so much? \_ indianspotting. bollywood opium chic. Mexico is tapped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_to_Hell_(film)_ \_ That was 20 years ago! \_ That movie was AWESOME. \_ Let me guess. You're Star Trek Movie Guy. \_ He's not, but I would ask the same question. -stmg |
| 2009/1/12-15 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52360 Activity:nil |
1/12 Sometimes my Thinkpad hangs for 5-10 minutes when I unsuspend it.
Sometimes it comes back in only 10 seconds. Whats up man? I've
noticed that my MacBook is starting to take a while too (5-10
seconds) but the old MacBooks were almost instantaneous. I've
experimented with turning off services, and the only one that
seems to do the trick is closing Yahoo Messenger, which...
isn't even a big binary. This is very baffling.
\_ Do you have firefox running when you suspend it? I've found
that unsuspend takes a long time sometimes if firefox is
running. Exit firefox before you suspend, see if thep
problem occurs.
\_ Do you mean suspend (state saved to RAM, minimal power continues) or
hibernate (state saved to disk, powered off)? |
| 2008/12/15-28 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52256 Activity:nil |
12/15 "Serious flaw in Internet Explorer not fixed yet (AP)"
http://www.csua.org/u/n3z (tech.yahoo.com) |
| 2008/12/7-10 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:52186 Activity:nil |
12/6 I just upgraded my Firefox from 2.0.0.18 to 3.0.0.4 via the automatic
upgrade dialog, and now the manual shortcut keys (Alt-F, Alt-E, etc)
no longer work. Does anyone else have the same problem? Thx. |
| 2008/11/14-26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51987 Activity:nil |
11/14 When does support for Firefox 2.0.0.x end? http://www.mozilla.com used to mention this, and I forgot what it said. |
| 2008/11/12-13 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Consumer/Audio] UID:51937 Activity:kinda low 66%like:51935 |
11/12 whatthefuckdoeslulzmean
\_ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?pagewanted=1
\_ lolz
\_ SOCIALISM
\_ natch, norcal.
\_ country first!
\_ election's over man. lol.
\_ Do other countries have such a long period between
election and inauguration?
\_ Taiwan does.
\_ It means paolo is an idiot.
\_ It means paolo is a moron. |
| 2008/11/4 [Politics/Domestic/California, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51808 Activity:low |
11/4 reload this several thousand times today:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#2008_election
\_ It seems to refresh automatically.
\_ It's strange. I get the zoom buttons in IE7 but not Firefox 2,
while I get maps for Alaska and Hawaii at the bottom left in
Firefox 2 but not in IE7. |
| 2008/10/24-28 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51667 Activity:nil |
10/24 Are there anyone still using Firefox 2.x? Is there a reason not to
upgrade to 3.x? Thx.
\_ 3.03 on MacOS crashes for me several times per day. 2.x never
had that issue.
\_ hell I'm still stuck on ff 2.0.0.12, stupid corporate packaging
weenies keeping us locked on an old version. |
| 2008/10/2-4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51353 Activity:nil |
10/2 Is there any Adobe Flash plugin for Firefox 3? I go to a site that
uses Flash and click "install plugin", then it says Adobe Flash Player
is not available.
\_ Uh, yes there is. Download and install it yourself if it doesn't
work. |
| 2008/9/16-19 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51186 Activity:nil |
9/16 Very interesting statistics on internet participation inequality.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html |
| 2008/9/4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51062 Activity:nil |
9/4 Regarding the Firefox 3 memory usage question that I asked on 8/29,
here are some new numbers (VM Size in MB reported by Task Manager):
2.0.0.16 3.0.1
- Startup, empty the cache. 13 23
- Go to http://www.yahoo.com 17 40
- Open 6 news pages in 43 69
6 new tabs.
- Close the 6 tabs above. 35 54
- Open the same 6 news pages 44 71
in 6 new tabs again.
- Close the 6 tags again. 38 53
So, after opening and closing the same tabs a second time, Firefox 3
still uses more memory than Firefox 2. Any idea? Thanks.
\_ Dunno, I notice better memory usage with lots of tabs open.
Firefox 2 used to go into the 500 MB range after a while,
Firefox 3 typically doesn't go above 400 MB. |
| 2008/9/4-8 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51059 Activity:nil |
9/4 Someone asked yesterday about the Obama/Ayers link. It took me a while
to find a link I was happy with, this one is ok. This guy goes into
excruciating detail about the Annenberg Challenge and CAC over a
number of blog posts. The full Annenberg documents were only recently
released, and this post predates the release. The documents are still
being digested, so this is far from the final word.
Anyway, it is pretty obvious that Obama and Ayers had a close working
relationship for at least 6 years (the real relationship almost
cetainly predates this), in which they funneled millions to Ayers'
causes and students. It's also quite obvious that Obama has been
highly disingenous about this relationship, and many of his statements
about it have been blatant falsehoods. ("Our kids went to school
together", etc)
http://csua.org/u/m9b
\_ Yes, Obama supports terrorism and wants to KILL WHITEY.
\_ It looks like Obama has really been trying to improve the schools,
which is great. I think I am going to give him another $2300.
\_ Might want to look into what he was spending that money on
first. The challenge itself was deemed an utter flop. $100mil
down the hole.
\_ Deemed an utter flop by who? This guy is not a reliable
source.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/554pov
The Annenberg Challange is hardly the radical far-left
proposal this guy makes it out to be.
\_ Sorry, it was a flop _in Chicago_. That is, it had no
effect on student performance in Chicago. Your link is an
overall evaluation, so not really interesting for this
discussion.
Also, it was deemed a flop by the Consortium of Chicago
School Research (CCSR) in 2003.
\_ Yes, that is interesting. I will have to do some more
research. But I think it is amusing that an effort to
try and weaken the hold of the teacher's union is called
a communist tactic by this guy.
\_ I with you agree there. -op
\_ I agree with you there. -op
here are some new numbers (VM Size in MB reported by Task Manager):
2.0.0.16 3.0.1
- Startup, empty the cache. 13 23
- Go to http://www.yahoo.com 17 40
- Open 6 news pages in 43 69
6 new tabs.
- Close the 6 tabs above. 35 54
- Open the same 6 news pages 44 71
in 6 new tabs again.
- Close the 6 tags again. 38 53
So, after opening and closing the same tabs a second time, Firefox 3
still uses more memory than Firefox 2. Any idea? Thanks.
\_ The delta between 2 "close the 6 tabs" lines is 3 megs for FF2
and -1 megs for FF3. The general problem with FF2 was it tended
to leak memory over time. For a desktop app, an extra 10 megs
is minimal, but since people like to have long lived browser
sessions, FF2's habit of slowing growing up to 2 gigs of memory
is a real problem.
\_ Dunno, I notice better memory usage with lots of tabs open.
Firefox 2 used to go into the 500 MB range after a while,
Firefox 3 typically doesn't go above 400 MB.
\_ I used to have to restart my browser every day. I don't have to
with FF3.
\_ FF3 does seem more crashy though.
\_ Anyway, you made your point. He has extensive political connections
to an ex-WU guy. A big yawner to me, but perhaps middle America
cares. I kind of doubt it. |
| 2008/8/29-9/3 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51003 Activity:nil |
8/29 Does Firefox 3 really use less memory than Firefox 2? I run 2.0.0.16
and 3.0.1 side-by-side in two XP VMs, and here are the VM Size numbers
(in MB) I see in Task Manager:
2.0.0.16 3.0.1
- Startup. 15 25
- Go to http://www.yahoo.com 18 27
- Open 6 news articles in 45 51
6 new tabs.
- Close the 6 tabs above. 35 49
It looks like Firefox 3 uses more memory than Firefox 2.
\_ Now reopen those 6 tabs and close them again.
\_ So what's the result? |
| 2008/8/25-31 [Computer/Companies/Ebay, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50961 Activity:nil |
8/25 A guy wants to buy my domain name using http://escrow.com. Are they shady or are they decent, compared to PayPal? \_ http://escrow.com is legit. I would not use any other escrow site. \_ I just used it, and it's REALLY FAST and simple to use unlike (#**$(# PayPal. So far so good, will let you know --op \_ I wish my escorts take e-escrow services. "I will pay you via PayPal full price for a BBFS job." |
| 2008/8/18-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50893 Activity:nil |
8/18 so i have a bunch of tabs open in one firefox window. i have a bunch
of tabs open in another firefox window. how do i combine them all
into one window ?
\_ Why would anyone use tabs? I don't use tabs, and I don't
understand why anyone else would either. -dim #1 fan
\_ Install the Duplicate Tab plugin, and hit Ctrl-Shift-M.
<DEAD>addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/28<DEAD>
\_ Which version?
\_ Thank you motd!!! |
| 2008/8/14-19 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50870 Activity:nil |
8/13 Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling
http://tinyurl.com/69p5nz [nyt] |
| 2008/8/13-14 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50856 Activity:low |
8/13 Has anyone else noticed Firefox 3 screwing up the bookmark icons?
\_ yes |
| 2008/7/20-23 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50636 Activity:nil |
7/20 A solution I like better for vertical tabs in Firefox: Tab Kit
<DEAD>addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5447<DEAD>
Ironically, I had to download the xpi file using Opera. |
| 2008/7/16-23 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50594 Activity:nil |
7/16 Safari >>> Firefox 3.0
F*** Firefox. -x Firefox
\_ stabbing self in eye is so enjoyable. |
| 2008/7/2-6 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50448 Activity:nil |
7/2 After Firefox 3.0, now we have Firefox 2.0.0.15. |
| 2008/6/25-26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50382 Activity:nil |
6/25 What's with firefox 3.0? http://dealnews.com Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. * Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. IE works fine, damn it. \_ Works fine for me in FF3, Opera 9.5, and IE \_ Have you contacted the owners of the website to inform them of this problem? \_ Works fine for me in FF3 and Safari. |
| 2008/6/19-24 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50301 Activity:nil |
6/19 Any comments on Firefox 3? Does it live up the promise?
\_ I want to like it but safari ui still looks so much nicer
\_ No it's too stupid. It's got features no one would use. Just
look at the multi-tab feature. Why would anyone ever want to
use multiple tabs? I don't use it, and no one should either.
Stupid!
\_ It does seem to be better at not leaking memory / over-caching
stuff so far. Other than that, I'm not noticing any really
significant usability differences. I'm not sure what's so awesome
about the "awesome bar" yet, but maybe it'll become clearer later.
\_ What's awesome is it is fucking obnoxious and never seems to
find the pages I want unless I already told it that I was
interested in that page. Gee, thanks.
\_ I just want 2.x without the huge memory leaks. |
| 2008/6/17-20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50275 Activity:kinda low 57%like:50273 |
6/16 Firefox 3 coming out tomorrow.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080612/bs_nf/60269
Memory usage - Firefox 3 Beta vs. Firefox 2 vs. IE 7:
http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage
\_ There's a rule that says NEVER BE THE FIRST TO TRY IT.
I'm going to let Firefox3 version 1 hammer out bugs first.
\_ Um, I've been running the beta and RCs for several weeks now, and
it's vastly better than v2.
\_ Why are they reinventing garbage collection?
\_ Because Firefox is written in a non garbage collected language.
Because Firefox includes an interpeter for a garbage collected
language with some complicated object lifespan issues.
Because there is more to reducing memory footprint than garbage
collection.
Because implementing is not the same as reinventing.
But most importantly: Because there is much more to reducing
memory footprint than garbage collection.
language with some complicated object lifespan issues. Because
implementing is not the same as reinventing. But most
importantly: Because there is much more to reducing memory
footprint than garbage collection.
\_ Uh yes, but they're worried about cycles? Who reference
counts anymore?
\_ The lifespan of a javascript object is a complicated
beast.
\_ In the past javascript was used sparingly and reference
counting was easy and fast. Yes there were leaks, but
once you closed a page the browser could just dump
dump everything associated with that page and move on.
It worked. Doing a good mark and sweep gc is hard,
especially with how firefox handled javascript execution.
Getting that right takes significant programing.
(For instance until ie7, ie was even worse about
javascript leaks, and they have a much larger team,
although at least ie doesn't run javascript
in the ui thread, does firefox 3 still do that?) |
| 2008/6/16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50273 Activity:nil 57%like:50275 |
6/16 Firefox 3 coming out tomorrow.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080612/bs_nf/60269 |
| 2008/6/16-20 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:50270 Activity:nil |
6/16 Anyone know how to move my Firefox tabs to the side? Or do I have to
download some addon for it?
\_ Let us know if you figure this out. I'm interested. |
| 2008/4/28-5/4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:49845 Activity:nil |
4/28 When I watch videos in Yahoo News, they are very sluggish. Is
there a way to configure Firefox or IE to buffer the whole video before
it starts playing? I tried pausing, waiting for a while, and then
playing again, but it didn't help. Thx. |
| 2008/4/24-30 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:49824 Activity:nil |
4/24 What's your favorite non-Firefox browser on Linux?
\_ Konqueror
\_ w3m
\_ firefox is pretty good, why do you hate it?
\_ konqueror is pretty goofy and doesn't act much like firefox,
which i hate. i would try out Opera.
\_ elinks |
| 2008/3/22-23 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:49540 Activity:low |
3/22 I just want to block ONE image consistently in Firefox.
Not the site the image is on. just this one particular image.
and i don't want to install the adblock or adblockplus extensions.
What should I do?
\_ GreaseMonkey
\_ What is wrong with adblock? Install adblock, disable the default
list and auto updates, kill the one image. |
| 2008/3/18-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:49485 Activity:nil |
3/18 I can't believe how zippy FF3 beta is and how small of a memory
footprint it takes even after 1 day. It renewed my faith in Firefox.
My only complaint would be not having the Firebug plug-in, but that
will be worked out in time.
\_ Firebug 1.1 worked as of FF3b2. Does it not work with FF3b4? I
should warn you that performance and memory footprint may turn to
crap once you install Firebug. -dans |
| 2008/3/13-17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:49451 Activity:moderate |
3/13 Firefox 3 Beta 4: Fast, cleans up memory good on minimize, stable,
can install alongside FireFox 2.x
Cons: Extensions don't work and need to install beta versions, rich
urlbar is nasty but as of today you can install oldbar extension
Ah-nold would say: Fuckin' fan-tah-stik!
\_ Does it use less memory than 2.x when not minimized? Long ago Fx
was intended to be a browser leaner than Mozilla, Netscape and IE.
But now 2.0.0.12 seems to use as much memory as IE on my machine.
\_ it seems to not leak memory. when you think it does, a few more
open and close tabs later you'll see it drops back down to a
relatively fixed amount. 2.0 could not last more than a few days.
You need to try it. Been rock solid so far. I can't go back. -op
relatively fixed amount. 2.0 could not last more than a day.
You need to try it. Been rock solid so far. -op
\_ Another Con: It's beta.
\_ I gave it a try after your post. It works quite well. Seems faster
than FF2. Most of my extensions worked w/o updates (adblock plus,
noscript, siteadvisor, pdfmenot, 1password). I needed to upgrade
nosquint to beta. The only extension that doesn't work is FoxMarks,
which is a little annoying. The default theme also looks a lot more
OSX like than FF2. All in all, it is quite nice. |
| 2007/12/20-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:48842 Activity:nil |
12/20 How do I make Mozilla Thunderbird grab all the contents of
my IMAP folders too when I go offline ? It grabs 'Inbox'
just fine, but doesn't update my various folders unless
I click on them. thanks.
\_ You missed the checkbox in "Offline & Disk Space" that says, "When I
create new folders, select them for offline use", and the button
titled "Select folders for offline use" that are right below the
checkbox "Make the messages in my Inbox available when I am working
offline"?
\_ I did this before... I don't think it grabs the messages still,
until I click on the folder. Weird. |
| 2007/12/14-19 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:48805 Activity:nil |
12/14 When I use Apple Mail and IMAP, I notice that it slowly sucks down
all the headers AND the bodies of my email inboxes, which is cool
in case society collapses and I don't have a connection to the
internet. How do I make Mozilla Thunderbird do this? I'm
pretty sure it's only grabbing the headers, until I look at the
particular message.
\_ Offline settings for the account, check "make available when
offline" |
| 2007/11/16-17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:48646 Activity:high |
11/16 joomla vs pligg. Thoughts?
\_ both great examples of why the open-source movement needs to
get involved with someone who has a clue about branding. -tom
\_ toomlaa! holubscript .. golumscript
\_ Mozilla seems to have this pretty well covered. Also, isn't the
whole point of a good CMS that it's efffectively invisible to
the end user? -dans
\_ I was totally ready to pligg that drunk sorority chick, but then
she did a joomla all over the hot tub.
she did joomlad all over the hot tub.
she joomlad all over the hot tub. |
| 2007/11/12-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:48608 Activity:nil |
11/12 How many people actually like Firefox 2.0 new tabs where there's
a close button on every tab, and that you have to scroll left/right
when you have too many tabs?
\_ Fix it in about:config
http://csua.com/?entry=45520
\_ I like the tabs in Fx, but I usually use Ctrl-W to close and
Ctrl-TAB to switch.
\_ There's a dropdown tab selector thing. I hate the close button on
tab deal, but that's easy to fix in about:config.
What I really wish FF had was if you drag a tab off the window it
becomes a new window with that tab. I think Safari and Opera
do that now. FF creates a shortcut if you do that, how stupid.
\_ The about:config for FF allows you to modify that behavior. Look up
browser.tabs.closeButtons (0 is close button only for current tab, 1
is default, and 2 is no close buttons) |
| 2007/10/23-25 [Computer/Domains, Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:48419 Activity:nil |
10/22 "The Hippie movement was the most controversial and influential of
modern times. Free love, the peace movement, drugs, Eastern religions
and communes are explored. Meet the figures whose words and actions
inspired it and destroyed it. See how the vibrations from that era
are still resonating today in almost every aspect of American life,
from the clothes we wear, to the Personal Computer and the Internet.
Finally, historic footage, stills and period graphics are
interwoven with expert commentary and eyewitness testimony."
History Channel. Must see. -no laid guy #3
\_ If you spent your time studying hippies in the wild, at a rave
or something, you might have better luck getting laid than if
you stayed home watching television.
\_ Actually I am watching this from work using the Slingbox. -op
\_ You probably won't get laid that way either.
\_ 1968. |
| 2007/9/6-10 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:47920 Activity:nil |
9/6 Firefox keeps your previous search term in the search box after you
use it. Anyone know how to get rid of it?
\_ Tools -> Clear Private Data -> Clear Private Data Now
Or to permanently change the setings:
Preferences -> Privacy -> History
\_ Your suggestion only clears the search history. I think what
the op is asking about, and what I'm a bit annoyed by as well,
is that when you type in the search in the search box next to
the url bar, the search term stays there until you close that
tab. I see no option for it in about:config either. But I
suspect that this behavior can be modified by a plugin/addon.
I have not searched to see if one exists.
\_ Sorry, I misunderstood. No, I don't have a solution
for that problem either. |
| 2007/8/23-27 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:47735 Activity:nil |
8/23 how do you run firefox with extensions off ?
\_ Use the "Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)" icon? |
| 2007/8/18-20 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:47647 Activity:moderate |
8/17 best flickr collection ever
http://flickr.com/photos/batawataneeki
\_ Welcome back MOTD Boob Guy!
\_ "You must be signed in to see this content from batawataneeki."
\_ You need a flickr(yahoo) account. big deal.
\_ actually the bugmenot account I used had better stuff in its
friends/faves/groups than this guy.
\_ http://bugmenot.com |
| 2007/7/31-8/3 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Uncategorized/Profanity, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:47483 Activity:nil 80%like:47481 |
7/31 wow. NSFW
http://www.solosuck.com
\_ oops. sorry. NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
\_ heh, I "lynx -dump"ed it to find that out |
| 2007/7/26-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:47433 Activity:nil |
7/26 Ten real-life superheroes! More-or-less literally.
http://www.oddee.com/item_87762.aspx
\_ #10: Foxfire (Michigan)
Foxfire is a 25-year-old woman who patrols the highways of
information. She is dedicated to helping those in need, preserving
computer resources, and, most importantly, "rescuing anyone who are
unfortunate users of Internet Explorer ......" |
| 2007/7/17-19 [Recreation/Media, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:47323 Activity:moderate |
7/17 **SPOILERS REMOVED**
\_ Who gives a flying shit?
\_ Barack Obama does:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvY3cSmW1cw
\_ Burbage?
\_ I'm reading Le Morte D'Arthur instead, without wearing
pants - !psb
\- just out of curiosity, what is your point mentioning
LMdA in the same breath as HP? Are they supposed to both
be "kids fatasy books with adult appeal" or something?
Maybe Once and Future King, but not LMdA, I dont think.
\_ I'm reading the Malazan book of the fallen series. I
read it on the toilet so my pants are half off.
\_ I'm reading Charlie Stross's _On Her Majesty's Occult
Service_, which is really good but may seem dated in about
five years. --erikred
\_ I d like to point out that Harry Potter sucks, and doesn't hold a
candle to Tolkien's stuff. And has the adult appeal of Barney
the fucking dinosaur. -- ilyas
\_ Cue unholy CS_LEWIS/PHILLIP_PULLMAN/TOLKEIN/ROWLING/STMG blood
bath. --erikred
\_ "Harry, I am your father." -Darth Voldemort
\- http://tinyurl.com/2ozkrv
\- http://tinyurl.com/2ozkrv (washingtonpost.com)
\_ Maybe when the next Hemingway starts writing people will
start reading fiction again.
start reading [new] fiction again.
\- yes, it is too bad as with Livy most of Hemingway is lost
to history and everybody has read all of what has survived.
\_ What I mean was new fiction, rather than existing
fiction. I've fixed it.
\- i dont think the failure-to-read is the lack of
quality fiction. also, i dont think reading pulp
fiction [at least for adults] is any different from
watching tv. reading the da vinci code is really
mentally the same as watching desperate hwives.
\_ I guess I disagree re the failure-to-read.
I used to try to find new fiction to read
whenever I went to the library, but it was
almost all universally bad (except for the
occasional mystery novel), so I've sort of
given up.
I agree re things like da vinci code. That
sort of crap is really fit only as kindling.
\_ So what, you already read all the old fiction?
I'd expect most new fiction to be rather bad,
as frankly most people don't really have much
to say but they say it anyway. If they can
come up with some nice mindless entertainment in
book form then more power to them.
\- "is there good fiction being written today"
is a separate question from "are people reading
less today than 20 years ago". if the first is
true it might explain the second, if it is true.
i dont have an opinion on #1. and i think #2 is
better explained by more competion ... like i
think internet surfing, dvds, internet chat etc
i dont have an opinion on #1. and i think #2 is T
but better explained by more competition ...
i internet surfing, dvds, internet chat etc
has reduced tv viewing more than "there is nothing
good on".
note also, i wasnt saying davinci code was
good/bad. i was just saying reading pulp like
that ... or michael chichton, or john grisham,
or james patterson ... is the brain equivalent
watching tv than reading shakespeare ... i.e.
the "at least they are reading" is totally
hollow argument.
watching tv ... i.e. the "at least they are
reading" is totally hollow argument.
\_ Oh, I don't know. Books require more patience,
reading comprehension, imagination. They are
not saturated with commercial marketing.
It seems most people can't even read the pulp.
\- this might apply to children ... which is
why i restricted my comments to adults.
my old housemate has an mba from mit/sloan
and is more or less retired before 50, and
reasonably informed about the world ... so
reasonably successful and not a dumbass.
the "can" read pulp ... he just doesnt.
he reads 0 fiction, and maybe 0-2 nonfic
per year (usually a practical/howto book).
judging him differently because
he read a james patterson mystery instead
of watching dvds/tv would be silly. he'd
be the same person. on the other hand,
somebody who goes though 20 books a year
including 5 "challenging" books would be
a different person if they replaced that
time with tv.
\_ So what, you already read all the old fiction?
I'd expect most new fiction to be rather bad,
as frankly most people don't really have much
to say but they say it anyway. If they can
come up with some nice mindless entertainment in
book form then more power to them. (re: desperate
hwives) |
| 2007/7/13-16 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:47277 Activity:nil |
7/13 Microsoft Internet Explorer FirefoxURL Protocol Handler Command
Injection Vulnerability
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24837 |
| 2007/6/28-7/2 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:47107 Activity:nil |
6/28 cia family jewels
dont open this up in firefox
use opera or IE. giganto document
http://tinyurl.com/26pytb
\_ I wanna know what the redacted number 1 was! Where's Oliver Stone
when you need him?
\_ Can't wait for the Eastern European version in, what, 2021?
\_ When a government agency or a corporation conduct activities that
they know are illegal, why do they still take the effort to write
detailed documents about such activities so that the documents can
come back and haunt them years later? If it's me, I'd instead take
the effort to make sure no trace of such activites are left.
\_ Don't worry, I think Dick Cheney and Karl Rove have taken this
advice to heart.
\_ i think people like documenting what they do for
internal agency career advancement opportunities |
| 2007/5/24-28 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Politics/Domestic/911] UID:46743 Activity:nil |
5/24 this looks like some internet shock site
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275341,00.html |
| 2007/5/20-24 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:46710 Activity:nil |
5/19 take this url:
http://www.google.com/search?q=leopardsy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
What firefox extension or setting gets me to quit sending
"client=firefox" ?
\_ That's something that Google is picking up from your user-agent.
Probably about:config general.useragent.extra.firefox or some
such. -tom
\_ As tom said. Your browser sends out all sorts of information to
any web server it talks to in the headers for your requests. This
is harmless and to your benefit, mostly, but you can send fake data
if you really want to (with some effort on your part). |
| 2007/4/13-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:46291 Activity:nil |
4/13 I use IE7 to browse a web site, and the server says the UserAgent
string is
"UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET
CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"
Is MS bowing to the Mozilla community?
\_ What are you talking about? IE has always reported its UserAgent
string to be "Mozilla-compatible". It's derived from the original
Netscape Navigator "Mozilla" codename, not from the Mozilla
OSS project. Netscape Navigator has reported itself to be
"Mozilla" from the beginning. Kids these days. |
| 2007/4/11 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:46256 Activity:nil |
4/11 Anybody know what's up with youtube? lynx -head -dump http://www.youtube.com HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found |
| 2007/4/6-8 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:46218 Activity:moderate |
4/6 I got a url that looks like
http://www.whatever.com/祢.mp3
How should I encode this link so that every browser (including lynx)
can understand it?
\_ If your file really is named 祢, you should encode it as
http://www.whatever.com/%26%2331074%3B.mp3 (replace each weird
character with a percent sign and the character's ASCII value in
hex). If your file is actually named with a Chinese character,
it's more complicated. With a modern server and browser, you can
just put a Chinese character right into the URL. If you have a
modern server but you want to support old or non-Chinese browsers,
convert the characters to UTF-8, break them into bytes, and
percent-encode each byte -- for your example, that would become
http://www.whatever.com/%E7%A5%A2.mp3 If you have an old server,
do the same thing, but instead of UTF-8, use whatever encoding
the server uses for filenames (probably Big5 or GB). --mconst
\_ Yes, that's what I am looking for.
\_ Yes, that's what I am looking for. Can you show me code example
of your conversion?
\_ Is the 祢 literal? That is, is that the file name on disk,
or is that already an HTML entity? If it's an HTML entity,
every browser should recognize it, although if you try to type
it in on the command line, the shell will freak out. That's
not a lynx issue and there's nothing you can do about it. -tom
\- er why should the shell "freak out" if you quote it properly?
lynx -dump http://www.whatever.com/\&\#31074\;.mp3 > /dev/null
\_ Obviously you can quote it in the shell, but it can't be
both quoted for the shell and a valid URL at the same
time. -tom
\_ single quotes are your friend. |
| 2007/3/21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:46042 Activity:nil |
3/21 Firefox 2.0.0.3 is out:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.3/releasenotes |
| 2007/3/15-17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45978 Activity:nil 54%like:45976 |
3/14 Firefox tricks:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2mqrmd (lifehacker.com)
Must have Firefox extensions:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ak76a (computerworld.com)
\_ Except for Foxmarks, most of these seem pretty useless.
Firefox 2.0 tab annoyance fix:
<DEAD>addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122<DEAD>
Also try out AdBlockPlus with Filterset.G |
| 2007/3/15 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45976 Activity:nil 54%like:45978 |
3/14 Firefox tricks:
http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php
Must have Firefox extensions:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011975&pageNumber=1
Firefox 2.0 tab annoyance fix:
<DEAD>addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122<DEAD>
Also try out AdBlockPlus with Filterset.G
\_ http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_memcache tips and tricks |
| 2007/2/17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Security] UID:45765 Activity:nil |
2/17 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252541,00.html Mormon University says YouCant to YouTube. |
| 2007/1/17-25 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45555 Activity:nil |
1/17 Hey, Firefox can launch an external application to view source. Go to
about:config and check out view_source.editor.external (bool), and
view_source.editor.path (string)
\_ Thanks! I just took a few seconds to set this up and it
works great. |
| 2007/1/3-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45521 Activity:nil |
1/3 I really really really hate HSBC. Logging in and trying to do anything
on it is like, using Mozilla on a 1995 web site. It totally blows.
You know what I hate the most? That there's a different HSBC site
for banking, for mortgage, in different states, whatever. I just
spent 10 minutes trying to find their particular login page for home
mortgage in California. Great rates but TOTALLY BLOWS. |
| 2007/1/3-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45520 Activity:nil |
1/3 Firefox 2.0 tab is REALLY annoying. Fix it here:
http://www.thetlog.net/2006/11/02/fixing-tab-annoyances-in-firefox-20
1- “X†close button on every tab
Fix: open about:config, look for browser.tabs.closeButtons, and set
it to 2 (no close buttons) or 3 (a single close button on the right
of the tabs, like in previous Firefoxes - though, again, middle-click
makes it useless).
2- tabs don’t get smaller past a certain point; if you have too many,
you need to scroll the tab bar to see them all
Fix: open about:config, and change browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a much
smaller value, like 10. |
| 2006/12/21-23 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45486 Activity:nil 54%like:45480 |
12/19 Firefox 1.5.0.9 and 2.0.0.1 are out. |
| 2006/12/20-21 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45480 Activity:moderate 54%like:45486 |
12/19 Firefox 1.5.0.9 and 2.0.0.1 are out. I thought there wouldn't be any
more 1.5.x versions.
\_ Have you looked at the changes file? -dans |
| 2006/11/10-12 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45320 Activity:low |
11/10 I modified a page in my html directory. When I go load the page
at work, it shows the old version of the page. The permissions
are set right. I tried deleting cookies and internet files, etc.
I tried to reload the page. It only shows the older version.
I tried this with a 2nd file. Same thing. What might be causing
this?
\_ you looking at a cached file. Is there a proxy cache you go through
at work? Also clearing the cache in your browser.
\_ Is that the same as deleting temporary internet files?
If so, I already did that.
If so, I already did that. The version that is coming
up in the browser was modified weeks ago. Also, someone
else at work on the different computer had the same problem
with my page. However, espn and cnn show up to date
versions of their pages. What makes csua different that it's
not showing the latest version of my page? -op
\_ Probably some meta tag that indicates how the page
should be cached.
\_ <meta name="description" content="My pictures"> is
the only meta tag in the file. -op
\_ I assume you mean in your file?
http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html
Caching hints also can be specified in the http
header.
\_ As the poster suggested above, are you using a web accelerator
and if so, if you disable it do you still get the same behavior?
\_ What is the URL? That might help. |
| 2006/11/9-10 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45291 Activity:low 66%like:45276 |
11/8 Firefox 1.5.0.8 is out.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
\_ Why do you keep posting FF releases? Anyone running 1.5.x is
going to get the popup alert, anyone not doesn't care.
\_ You only get the popup alert if you run an official build, I
think. I build from source (because FF doesn't have an official
build for my platform), and I don't get a popup. -!op
\_ What platform?
\_ FreeBSD
\_ Run the linux version.
\_ Which, last I checked, required that you
have compat_linux enabled on most BSDs;
pp may not not want to do.
\_ Is 1.5.0.8 or 2 less memory hungry? |
| 2006/11/8-9 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45276 Activity:nil 66%like:45291 |
11/8 Firefox 1.5.0.8 is out. |
| 2006/11/3-4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45153 Activity:nil |
11/3 In my WinSock.h for v1.1 (dated 6/4/02), there is this line:
#define AF_FIREFOX 19 /* FireFox */
What is that??? FireFox socket address family?
\_ It is a hack MS put into the windows network stack back in '02 to
slow down FireFox network connections. |
| 2006/11/3-4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45149 Activity:nil |
11/3 Was this real?
"Mozilla stomps IE": http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html |
| 2006/11/3-4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45136 Activity:nil |
11/3 I'm running Ubuntu and Firefox 2. What do I need to install
to watch the Daily Show clips on http://comedycentral.com ? - danh |
| 2006/11/2 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45095 Activity:nil |
11/02 YouTube sued by Universal Tube (utube.com):
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5619298&nav=1TjD
http://tinyurl.com/taltn (blog.washingtonpost.com) |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45075 Activity:nil |
11/01 Firefox Session Saver, the best extension I've ever used.
\_ Firefox 2.XX has this "built in", kind of non intuitive to
find but it's there. you'll notice Session Saver doesn't
install in Firefox 2.XX
\_ Just FYI, that's Opera's default behavior, and has been for years.
\_ I know Opera is supposed to be fast as lightning, but
when I try to use it there's just too much crazy crap
going on and I go back to Firefox.
\_ I tried Opera when they released for free last year(?). No
tabbing feature that I could see. Deleted.
\_ The MDI interface has been there for years. Maybe you missed
the subtle distinction?
\_ Honestly, I have no idea. I looked through the whole
interface for something that looked like tabbing. It may
have been there in some form but if it requires above my
miniscule computer abilities to find it might as well not.
\_ It's not necessary anymore with Firefox 2.0. |
| 2006/10/25-27 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44978 Activity:nil |
10/25 My new favorite built in feature of Firefox 2.x:
Edit->Preferences->Main->
When Firefox starts: (drop down menu)
Show my windows and tabs from last time - danh |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44954 Activity:nil |
10/24 I want to do a web project but don't know how to do it. Does anyone
know how to write a plugin for Explorer or Firefox?
\_ No, no one. |
| 2006/10/24-26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44940 Activity:low |
10/24 So why is Firefox at 2.0 now? Granted this revision is a bit bigger
than most minor revisions, but neither the program architecture or
plugin interface changed much.
\_ Marketing? Maybe even free software needs marketing?
\_ The marketing wants to be freeeeee!!1111
\_ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/#whatsnew
\_ Sounds like it should be called 1.6.0.0 instead.
\_ Related question: Is anyone having a issue w/ the netflix queue
page under FF2.0? I get an error that some script is taking too
long to run and I should abort it. This didn't happen on FF1.5.x.
\_ Works for me with FF2.0 200+ movies in queue.
\_ Hmm, maybe it is b/c I have 400+ movies in my queue.
\_ They might have just tweaked the max time value; you can change
it yourself via about:config, look for dom.max_script_run_time
--dbushong |
| 2006/10/23-24 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44923 Activity:nil |
10/23 IE7 is out. Is it better than Firefox 1.5.0.7?
\_ It's fundamentally the same as IE7bN, so... no. |
| 2006/10/22-23 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:44910 Activity:nil |
10/22 Using Windows XP Pro. I got an Iomega external hard drive to use
to backup my internal hard drive over a year ago. I then installed
the software. Since then, whenever I start up my computer, the
software would start up and then go to the background. No problem.
Today, for some reason, it starts up and then freezes up and doesn't
respond. I can manually end the process, but I can't actually get
into the program, because it just freezes up when I start it up. So,
I'll have to manually end the process every time I turn on the
computer and I can't actually use the program. How can I stop it
from starting up automatically (it doesn't seem to be there in the
Startup folder)? And how can I somehow get it to not freeze up so
I can use it again some day to backup my computer?
\_ http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html
\_ No idea about your freezing but it sounds like either something else
you installed is incompatible with your iomega ware or maybe there's
a hardware/cable problem which is causing the ware to wig out. Try
uninstalling and reinstalling the ware and see what happens. |
| 2006/10/19-24 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:44865 Activity:nil |
10/18 Flashplayer 9 Beta for Linux is out:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/10/beta_is_live.html
\_ Excellent. My last obstacle to migrating to linux was the ability
to play dice wars and see youtube. |
| 2006/10/17-18 [Computer/Networking, Computer/Domains, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44845 Activity:moderate |
10/17 Hello Internet addicts
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/17/061017180234.eiuwieod.html
"the typical Internet addict was a single, college-educated, white male
in his 30s, who spends approximately 30 hours a week on non-essential
computer use"
\_ Me to a T. Now the thing is, I spend those 30 hours building useful
software for fun. Is that an addiction, or just a hobby?
\_ I think they mean surfing pr0n sites, not writing software as
a hobby.
\_ Yep. Otherwise, people who spend their free time on hobbies
like building furniture in their garage would be addicts.
\_ The pr0n surfing is part of the essential computer use...
\_ link:csua.org/u/h8p
\_ And then there are the TV addicts.
But their habits are rarely referred to as "problematic". -niloc
\_ I know someone who watches at least 30 hours of TV a week and
frankly it's ruining her life. |
| 2006/10/12-13 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:44780 Activity:low |
10/11 How do you save youtube vidoes?
\_ search with ^vidoes^videos
\_ When I put that into google, I got tons of useful links. Maybe you
should...STFW.
\_ I know how to save it. I just don't know how to play it back.
\_ how do i save it in my browser? there's a lot of ways
tha tdepend on external websites.
\_ I figured it out. In Firefox, use this bookmarklet:
http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html
\_ http://keepvid.com
\_ Uses external website. above bookmarklet better solution |
| 2006/10/9-10 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44728 Activity:nil |
10/9 Support plug-in hybrids:
http://www.pluginpartners.org |
| 2006/10/4 [Politics/Domestic, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:44659 Activity:nil |
103/ http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061004/2006-10-04T005304Z_01_L03419567_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-GOOGLE-POLITICIANS-DC.html ... "unless you're in China". |
| 2006/9/22-25 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:44497 Activity:nil 90%like:44493 |
9/22 OpenDNS is looking for someone to write a Thunderbird extension.
http://tinyurl.com/j24ux (rentacoder.com) |
| 2006/9/22 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:44493 Activity:nil 90%like:44497 |
9/22 OpenDNS is looking for someone to write a Thunderbird extension.
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=532805 |
| 2006/9/15-19 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:44386 Activity:nil |
9/15 Fx 1.5.0.7 is out.
\_ Those of us with Firefox have already been automagically upgraded,
and why would those without care?
\_ unix version doesn't automagically do anything |
| 2006/9/15-17 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44385 Activity:nil |
9/15 The Real Firefox:
http://media.disloyal.org/Pictures/681_the_real_firefox.jpg
\_ That looks like 1.5.0.6 to me... |
| 2006/8/31-9/5 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44221 Activity:nil |
8/31 Firefox 2.0 B2 is out:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-beta.html
\_ This url may be more useful (and is what they recommend
be given out): http://csua.org/u/gtl -niloc |
| 2006/8/27-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44164 Activity:low |
8/27 Trying to teach someone to write web pages. Microsoft Publisher
2003 writes really bad HTMLs that don't render well on FireFox,
but is pretty easy to use. What are other WYSIWYG html editors
that is better than MS Publisher?
\_ nvu?
\_ second that. I still think it is helpful to learn from the
basics of the tags. You need to drill this concept of "mark-up"
language into their head and need to drill this concept of
"follow the standard" too.
\_ You know that nvu wasn't a typo of nvi, right?
\_ iWeb?
\_ M$ Word?
\_ bad idea, see above. MS doesn't follow any open-standards. |
| 2006/8/16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44022 Activity:nil |
8/16 The Firefox Crop Circle:
http://www.thefoxtales.net/firefox/crop-circle |
| 2006/8/11-14 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:43980 Activity:nil |
8/11 When I try to cut and paste from Firefox to Termminal.app on my
mac, I have problems with " and some other special characters.
Any advice on how to fix the cut and paste problem?
\_ what's the problem? (Terminal.app sucks, probably). -tom |
| 2006/7/27-28 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:43813 Activity:low |
7/27 Firefox 1.5.0.5 is out!
\_ I think it's a security bugfix of sort. Go look it up.
\_ Heh, I think it's kinda funny that you got all excited
about a release, and you don't even know what's new in
it. -!pp
\_ I did look at the Release Notes before I posted it here.
-- OP
\_ And?
\_ changelog?
\_ I think it's a security bugfix of sort. Go look it up.
\_ Heh, I think it's kinda funny that you got all excited
about a release, and you don't even know what's new in
it. -!pp
\_ New bits >>>> old bits!!! :-)
\_ I did look at the Release Notes before I posted it here.
-- OP
\_ And? |
| 2006/7/24 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Recreation/Media] UID:43770 Activity:kinda low |
7/24 The Internet is for Porn (Sort of SFW)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645 -John
\_ I just wasted a minute of my life.
\_ 3 minutes, if you watched the entire thing.
\_ Sorry for forcing you. -John
\_ Oh! No, no, I enjoyed it. -!pp
\_ I only made it through a minute of it.
\_ Ditto. It was interesting for about 30 seconds. It is
\_ Ditto. It was interesting for about 30 minutes. It is
not bad, has a lot of potential to be better. |
| 2006/7/14-18 [Computer/Domains, Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:43670 Activity:nil |
7/14 Has all mail been delivered?
\_ In the words of Ted Stevens ("internet expert"):
The internet is not something that you just dump something on.
It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't
understand that those tubes can be filled, and if they're filled
when you put your message in it, it gets in line, it's gonna be
delayed by anyone who puts into that tube enormous amounts of
material, enormous amounts of material. Ten movies streaming
across that that, internet, and what happens to your own
personal internet? I...just the other day, got internet was
sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got
it yesterday. Why?
\_ So, I think your answer is, no, it's not all been delivered, never
has been, never will be. Let me rephrase my question. Has mail
been delivered to the extent that it normally would be, or is
there still a significant percentage of the mail from when
sendmail was down that hasn't been delivered yet? It seems that
some of my mail is missing. Not sure if it's just 1 message, or
a significant percentage. -op
\_ I think the intelligent way to interpret this question, is for
someone in the know to tell us if mail was queued on another
machine during extended periods of downtime, and if not,
approximately how long that non-queueing-of-mail went on for. |
| 2006/6/26-28 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:43503 Activity:nil |
6/26 anyone have problem using lynx w/in pine? I can't see the error
but it looks like it is looking in /usr/share/bin. |
| 2006/6/5-8 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Recreation/Woodworking] UID:43276 Activity:nil |
6/4 Dam beavers
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds/humor/beavers.html
\_ An actual letter, it turns out:
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/dammed.htm |
| 2006/5/20-22 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Security] UID:43123 Activity:nil 61%like:43119 |
5/19 I need a simple plug-in 128-bit (or so) C encryption library.
Semmetric key is easiest, but public key is ok if that's the only
thing I can get. Any ideas?
\_ symmetric
thing I can get. Any ideas?
\_ http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net --dbushong
\_ Thanks, I'm checking it out. |
| 2006/5/3-7 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:42919 Activity:nil |
5/3 How do I capture the BoxMart jibjab video to MPG or AVI?
\_ It's a Flash file. Why not save it as Flash and use a Flash
player? It'll be smaller and won't degrade the quality. Otherwise
you'll either need to find a Flash => AVI converter (so far I'm
unaware of any good free ones, though I'm sure Macromedia's Flash
authoring package does it) or get a screen scraping program.
--jameslin
\_ Firefox VideoDownloader should do it. It even points you to where
you can get an, apparently Windows only, player for FLV files.
-dans
\_ That'll download it, but it won't convert it. It's not clear
exactly what the op wants though.
\_ Looks like FFMPEG will convert FLV to foo
\_ But it's not an FLV. It's just a normal SWF Flash
animation, isn't it? |
| 2006/4/29-5/2 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:42862 Activity:nil |
4/29 C for Cookie:
http://tinyurl.com/kmd9z
--michener
\_ That's awesome. Thanks. -jrleek
\_ Fantastic, thanks. Any ideas as to where to find a not-PITA-to-
download version of that? -John
\_ Firefox VideoDownloader, don't know how well it works, someone
just pointed me to it: <DEAD>addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390<DEAD>
-dans |
| 2006/4/29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:42861 Activity:nil |
4/29 I hate ipsec, so much. It's like some twisted joke:
"OpenS/WAN, a Cisco PIX, and a Sonicwall walk into a bar, and
the bartender says, 'you got your PFS in my NAT-T!'"
o/28 Damn it, people, entertain me.
\_ http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/index.php?id=19542&c=false |
| 2006/4/28-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:42860 Activity:nil |
4/28 Damn it, people, entertain me.
\_ http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/index.php?id=19542&c=false |
| 2006/4/27-5/2 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:42847 Activity:nil |
4/27 http://www.explorerdestroyer.com Google pays you a buck for everyone that switches from IE to Firefox \_ I can't sign up Google AdSense account via the link. My Firefox browser blocks it! |
| 2006/4/22-25 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:42801 Activity:nil |
4/21 worst thing ever
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2FRMntm1Uec
\_ Oh. My. God. Big. Fat. Belly. Disturbed am I? Yes.
\_ I love lynx/w3c. Anything worth seeing can still be seen on them
and any danh url can not.. mmm =)
\_ You can compile javascript and crazy pnm-to-ascii support
into elinks. - danh |
| 2006/4/21-23 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/OS] UID:42791 Activity:nil |
4/21 I guess short-GOOG-at-100-guy hasn't gotten his account turned
back on yet. -tom
\_ I think he retired after he vested, exercised, and sold most of
his GOOG options and unit stocks at around 300-350. It coincided
with the time frame when wall logs disappeared.
\_ By the way I wonder what the quant says about GOOG:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/19/magazines/moneymag/computers_moneymag_0605 |
| 2006/4/5-6 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Recreation/Dating] UID:42669 Activity:low |
4/4 You've seen images of gorgeous female school teachers raping
little boys right? Now here's a female school teacher I wouldn't
want to be raped by:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/04/teacher.sex/index.html
\_ What kind of images do you spend your time trolling the internet
for? -dans
\_ I look for PNGs of hot mature 19 year olds that I can
share my resources with.
\_ That's fucked up. Picking up 19 year olds on the internet?
What do you do, troll LiveJournal and Myspace? -dans
\_ Is that the same one where the teacher had sex with a 15 year
old TWENTY SEVEN times within 1 week? (see http://www.smokinggun.com
Maybe related to der furious? |
| 11/23 |