mozilla – Page 5 – Hand Coding

New Orbit Theme

August 7, 2002August 13, 2005 Ashley Bischoff1 Comment

For those of you using the Orbit theme for Mozilla, there’s a new version available. Well, ok, I suppose that a June 27th release doesn’t make it all that “new”, but it’s certainly newer than the last version I spoke about. One of the things that I noticed in this newer version is that it provides for greater degree of theming for the preferences dialogs.

If you haven’t tried the themes for Mozilla beyond the built-in Classic and Modern, there are now quite a few good ones available (including my current favorite, Orbit).

Mozilla 1.1 Beta

July 24, 2002 Ashley BischoffLeave a comment

Ah, I see that Mozilla 1.1 Beta has been released!

It’s here! Mozilla 1.1 Beta. New to this release are full-screen mode for Linux, BiDi Hebrew improvements, Arabic shaping improvements for Linux, and significant improvements to Venkman, the best cross-platform JavaScript debugger on the planet. […] And if you’re confused about all these alpha and beta releases (and what ever happened to that 1.0 branch?) then take a look at the nice picture available at the Mozilla Development Roadmap.

Grab it here:

Or, if you don’t have one of those OSs, there’re more downloads on the release page.

Mozilla Hangs with HTTP Pipelining

July 19, 2002August 13, 2005 Ashley BischoffLeave a comment

If you’ve recently been gettings hangs with Mozilla, you may be running into bug 146884 — in a nutshell, if you turn on HTTP Pipelining (Preferences -> Advanced -> HTTP Networking), Mozilla will likely hang, sucking upwards of 100% CPU within a few minutes.

It’s been suggested that the bug could be added as a dependency of the “make mozilla 1.1beta not suck” and “make mozilla 1.1 not suck” bugs. But, those requests have fallen on deaf ears.

So, in the meantime, just be sure to turn off HTTP Pipelining.

PS For the Mozilla nuts in the audience, I see that Sspitzer has all kinds of cool pre-made Bugzilla queries on his homepage, such as “smoketest blocker bugs”.

SpamSlayer

July 19, 2002August 13, 2005 Ashley Bischoff1 Comment

I just ran across SpamSlayer, which is a set of mail-filters for Mozilla that can apparently eliminate 80%-100% of Spam from your Inbox.

SpamSlayer is technically a “filter package”. It filters your email transparently and most spam never even reaches your inbox. Anything that looks like spam is directed into a separate “Possible Spam” folder for later review.

It looks interesting but, of course, I use SpamCop for my e-mail anyway. For just $30/year, SpamCop provides an account accessible via IMAP, POP3, or even webmail. And, through an extensive set of regular expressions, hardly any Spam gets into my Inbox. To top it off, SpamCop runs on Open Source software including as Apache, Perl, and MySQL — I highly recommend the service.

Incremental Find for Mozilla

July 12, 2002 Ashley BischoffLeave a comment

Incremental Find is now available for Mozilla, at least as an XPI. With incremental find, the Find function works as-you-type character-by-character.

If you want to install the XPI, then you should visit the webpage. But, if you want to download the XPI, just right-click on the XPI link and choose “Save As”.