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[kimpossible]

Can someone who uses the latest version of Mozilla tell me if the forum looks 'naked' to you, i.e. most of the features are missing? I had to switch to Explorer because things like quotes weren't available or working properly.

[VV o n g B a]

using mozilla firebird 0.7. and nope, didn't notice anything wrong.

[ism]

Mozilla 1.5 - works fine for me
Firebird 0.7 - works fine for me

[Martinkou]

Using Mozilla Firebird 0.7, and I don't see any real difference between that and IE. (when viewing this forum)

[hooligan]

firebird user as well, nothing wrong with it as far as i can tell.

[ren28]

Mozilla FB 0.7+. Everything looks great.

[TTChino]

Netscape 7.0 / Mozilla 5

Sometimes there's no picture only the name of the picture. Like when I log in, sometimes it says in text the name of the graphic file instead of showing me the graphic file. And quotes are wacked. But this isn't all the time.

[VV o n g B a]

nice avatar btw. viconia really was the only sexy chick in bg2.

[Faithless]

Using Mozilla v .9 for grins.

It appears that working with a reduced browser screen works differently than it does with IE.

The drop-downs to very right won't expand in Mozilla.

[kboy75]

I use Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and everything works great. Drop downs work fine.

[Faithless]

I use Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and everything works great. Drop downs work fine.
Oh.

I was talking about working with the browser in a "reduced" mode. That is, not fully expanded -- so that it takes up half the computer screen.

I do this, so that I can see email coming up in the screen behind it, etc.

[Chester]

I'm using Firefox 0.8 and everything is working fine.

[Filiprish]

Mozilla 0.?, everythings fine here.

[ism]

Oh.

I was talking about working with the browser in a "reduced" mode. That is, not fully expanded -- so that it takes up half the computer screen.

I do this, so that I can see email coming up in the screen behind it, etc.

Confirmed: Firefox 0.8, Firefox 0.9, Mozilla 1.5, Mozilla 1.6

It is a problem with vBulletin's popup menu Javascript. The way it calculates the offset and size of the popups is based on IE's broken box model. It only happens if the location of the popup relative to right edge of the visible browser window overlaps the miscalculated offset. Basically, if you have a horizontal scrollbar, things go screwy.

I checked vBulletin's bugs forum and people are complaining but it doesn't seem anyone else can replicate it since no one described the bug completely. I'll try and issue a proper bug report when I get home (kinda busy setting up an Exchange server at the moment), maybe a fix if I have time (is vB open source?).

[tvbdude]

wow, alot of you use mozilla. is it that good?

[yoMAMA]

i'm used to IE now......;)

[kboy75]

wow, alot of you use mozilla. is it that good?
mozilla rocks.

[Filiprish]

wow, alot of you use mozilla. is it that good?
Yeah, man. It's a dream come true.

To be more specific, I have Mozilla 1.8 Alpha I. It's a beta. I can't tell the difference between this and 1.7. There are some added features like a debugger, but I have no clue how to use it and what exactly it does. :confused:

[Faithless]

One thing that I don't see in Firefox/0.9, that I do have with IE 6.0, is the ability to move around the toolbars.

With IE 6.0, I can place the standard toolbar along side the menu options toolbar -- and allow the address bar to sit all by its lonesome.

With Firefox/0.9, it appears that the toolbars are locked, save for the feature to hide them or not. I also see links running along the last toolbar, and I rather not show them.

Is there a feature to move around the toolbars with Firefox/0.9?

Nevermind, found out how. Under customize. Still can't get rid of the links showing, though.

[>:^|]

wow, alot of you use mozilla. is it that good?

I like it because it isn't open to a lot of exploits like IE. Since my IE debacle, I'm never going back.

The only thing I've really noticed that is different is the fact that PMs don't open in a separate box. I don't really use very many of the Vbulletin features, though.

[Faithless]

Since I am new to Firefox/0.9, I notice that there is this transparent function.

Can't determine what its value is.

[Yeahman]

The one annoying this I found about this forum and firefox is that when i press the back button, the previous page loads but returns to the top of the page so I have to scroll back down to where I was.

[Faithless]

The one annoying this I found about this forum and firefox is that when i press the back button, the previous page loads but returns to the top of the page so I have to scroll back down to where I was.
I have noticed a similar scrolling thing with Firefox.

I click a link on a page, and Firefox scrolls the page. Whereas, IE does not.

For instance, on this web page:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/infocenter.html

You click the image for North America, and the web page scrolls in Firefox.

You click the image in IE, but no scrolling.

[ism]

You click the image for North America, and the web page scrolls in Firefox.

You click the image in IE, but no scrolling.

That's actually a feature... I looked at the Javascript and it's supposed to scroll. There's an explicit check to see if the browser is Gecko (Netscape 6+, Mozilla, etc.) and if it is, it does the scrolling effect. Rather annoying, IMO.

It's different from what ye11oman was describing. He wants to be at the same place he left from in the previous page if he goes back in the history. It's a known bug (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217120) that affects certain sites, most notably eBay. The only solution at the moment is to open links in new tabs.

Okay, if you're new to Firefox I recommend:
1) Visiting http://texturizer.net/firefox/ which has a lot of helpful information
2) Installing the AdBlock extension (http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html) and import the Filter list I attached to this message (Tools -> AdBlock -> Preferences -> AdBlock Options -> Import Filters). I have it set to "Remove Ads" and "Collapse Blocked Elements" and I never download an ad (saving bandwidth, great for dialup users), and it doesn't leave any blank space.
3) I like the Radial Context (http://www.radialthinking.de/radialcontext/) extension, which turns the context menu (right-click) into a Pie Menu (like in The Sims). It decreases the distance you need to move your mouse.

[lethal]

I installed Mozilla on my work computer. Of course, its running Win95, so I can't even use FireFox. Mozilla is soooooo slow ont his thing. I can't believe IE 5.5 is faster, but it is.

[Faithless]

One of the features that I would like to see (or have), is a floating toolbar feature. I use it with most of the Microsoft Office products.

That is, I create a custom toolbar and stick my favorite functions on there. For Outlook, for example, I have the Inbox and the Folderlist functions right there, so that I don't have to roam through the menus (or use some command key sequence).

IE doesn't have it, which is dumb, since it's a Microsoft product.

Firefox allows you to create a custom toolbar, but from what I can see, it is docked to the top of the browser.

[stunninglyAsian]

I use Safari first.

If the website doesn't show properly (very rarely now) or I get a message saying "Please assimilate now by using IE" from autos.msn.com or hotmail.com, then I go use Netscape. If that doesn't work, then I use IE.

[ism]

I installed Mozilla on my work computer. Of course, its running Win95, so I can't even use FireFox. Mozilla is soooooo slow ont his thing. I can't believe IE 5.5 is faster, but it is.

A good chunk of IE is integrated with the OS, so when Windows loads, so has IE. Firefox will run on 95 with problems, so I recommend against it. Try K-Meleon, which is a Mozilla derivative (currently based on Mozilla 1.5) and meant to run on lesser machines.

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

[lethal]

I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip.

[Tao]

The one annoying this I found about this forum and firefox is that when i press the back button, the previous page loads but returns to the top of the page so I have to scroll back down to where I was.


yeah that got to me too....i use safari now on my powerbook, and it doesn't have that bug.

[Faithless]

Do any of the current browsers allow you to split a web page in two, freezing the upper portion -- ala Excel and its row split function?

I hate it when you get a nice long table from a web page, and you have to scroll back up to recall what the fuckling (new word) headings were.

[ism]

Do any of the current browsers allow you to split a web page in two, freezing the upper portion -- ala Excel and its row split function?

I hate it when you get a nice long table from a web page, and you have to scroll back up to recall what the fuckling (new word) headings were.Kind of. Assuming the table is written in standards-compliant xhtml (using the table header elements), the headings are supposed to be replicated on page breaks. The only problem is that you're looking at an infinitely long page. I don't think there's an easy way to do this, but possibly in Javascript with major DOM manipulation. Also, Mozilla/Firefox/etc is the only browser I know that does this when you print the page.

The IE team has been reactivated, you might want to put this in as a feature request. I'd suggest posting in the Firefox and Mozilla forums so an extension developer or even a javascripter might be able to come up with something. I'm not sure how involved this feature would be.

[fossilfuel]

It's probably not what you're looking for - but you could do CTRL-N on a page and resize it so you have both browser windows open at once. Leave the top one on the table heading and scroll with the bottom one.

[Faithless]

OK, ism.

It's probably not what you're looking for - but you could do CTRL-N on a page and resize it so you have both browser windows open at once. Leave the top one on the table heading and scroll with the bottom one.
This might be a good alternative.

[Filiprish]

Does anyone know if Netscape 7.2 built w/ Mozilla is as fast as Mozila 1.7.3? They share code but I wonder if Mozilla is still faster.

[hooligan]

hey ism, do you know how to turn off adblock with yw? all i see, is ... white? : D

[ism]

hey ism, do you know how to turn off adblock with yw? all i see, is ... white? : DYou must have some aggressive filter keywords... I can't really help you without seeing your list. There's no site whitelist with the adblock extension yet. I've been looking forward to it. Unfortunately, all you can do is clean up your filters or disable adblock temporarily. I don't have a problem with YW and the list I'm using is:

[Adblock]
/\D\d{2,3}x\d{2,3}\D/
googlesyndication
us.yimg.com/a/
/\/buy_assets\//
/[\W\d_](top|bottom|left|right|)?banner(s|id=|\d|_)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d](double|fast)click[\W\d]/
/[\W\d]click(stream|thrutraffic|thru|xchange)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d]value(stream|xchange|click)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d]dime(xchange|click)[\W\d]/
/[\W\d](onlineads?|ad(banner|click|-?flow|frame|ima?g(es?)?|_id|js|log|serv(er|e)?|str eam|_string|s|trix|type|vertisements?|v|vert|xchan ge)?)[\W\d]/
/(hot|spy)log/
/[\W_](b(an|nr)s?|jump|redir(ect|s)?|stat)[\W_]/
/\W(cy|r)?c(ou)?nt(er|ed)?\W/
/p(artner|ing\.cgi|romotion)/
reklama
/sp(onsor|ymagic)/
/top(100|cto)/
atdmt.com

paste it into a text file and import it.