Firebird/Firefox page loading feature

[ms]

In Firebird, when I click on a website, in the task bar area is a
message "transferring", and a progress bar shows the loading status.
Handy when there are website issues.

In Firefox 0.9, I don't see that, or anything until the new page loads.

How to enable it?

Mike Sa

 

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In Firebird, when I click on a website, in the task bar area is a
message "transferring", and a progress bar shows the loading
status. Handy when there are website issues.

In Firefox 0.9, I don't see that, or anything until the new page
loads.

How to enable it?

View|Status Bar.

 

[ms]

View|Status Bar.

Thanks, that did it. Firefox Ver. 0.9 now seems to be a good replacement
for the Navigator portion of Netscape 4.79, and does what I need.

I realize this is a judgement question, but is there any point for the
average user in downloading (with DUN, it's a big download) the lastest
0.91, or waiting until a later version?

Mike Sa

 

[*ProteanThread*]

Thanks, that did it. Firefox Ver. 0.9 now seems to be a good replacement
for the Navigator portion of Netscape 4.79, and does what I need.

I realize this is a judgement question, but is there any point for the
average user in downloading (with DUN, it's a big download) the lastest
0.91, or waiting until a later version?

Mike Sa

Since it just came out you probably not. Trying out 0.91 out now as I write
this.


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[Cory Panshin]

Thanks, that did it. Firefox Ver. 0.9 now seems to be a good replacement
for the Navigator portion of Netscape 4.79, and does what I need.

I realize this is a judgement question, but is there any point for the
average user in downloading (with DUN, it's a big download) the lastest
0.91, or waiting until a later version?

Firefox 0.9 has issues with the Extension Manager. (I posted here the
other week about how I was tearing my hair out over it.) Version 0.91
seems to have fixed all of that. If you don't use extensions, there
isn't much difference.

 

[ms]

Firefox 0.9 has issues with the Extension Manager. (I posted here the
other week about how I was tearing my hair out over it.) Version 0.91
seems to have fixed all of that. If you don't use extensions, there
isn't much difference.

My goof, my version turns out to be 0.8, not 9. So my question should
have been- for the average user, does 9.1 have any real advantages over
8?

Mike Sa

 

[Aaron]

My goof, my version turns out to be 0.8, not 9. So my question should
have been- for the average user, does 9.1 have any real advantages
over 8?

A few.

1) New extension manager/system- Allows you to uninstall (as opposed to
merely disabling extensions). The catch is all extensions not updated for
it will not show up in the new extensions manager when you try to install
them, though you can use the "show old extension" to fix that.

2) The handy feature of rightclicking on a search form and setting up a
bookmark keyword search easily

3) Some security patches, 0.8 is vulnerable to a cross site scripting
exploit found recently. 0.9 and 0.91 are not.

4) Some controls that allow you to set the max number of popups per site

5)some protection against spyware that tries to install via xpi (onload
doesn't cause the xpi permission popup now, you need to click on it ),

6) Javascript controls to block attempts by sites to disable your right
click menu, also new copy image right click.

That's all I can remember.

Mike Sa

Aaron (my email is not munged!)

 

[ms]

A few.

1) New extension manager/system- Allows you to uninstall (as opposed to
merely disabling extensions). The catch is all extensions not updated for
it will not show up in the new extensions manager when you try to install
them, though you can use the "show old extension" to fix that.

2) The handy feature of rightclicking on a search form and setting up a
bookmark keyword search easily

3) Some security patches, 0.8 is vulnerable to a cross site scripting
exploit found recently. 0.9 and 0.91 are not.

4) Some controls that allow you to set the max number of popups per site

5)some protection against spyware that tries to install via xpi (onload
doesn't cause the xpi permission popup now, you need to click on it ),

6) Javascript controls to block attempts by sites to disable your right
click menu, also new copy image right click.

That's all I can remember.


Aaron (my email is not munged!)

Thanks, Aaron. Some of those features sound useful for me.

The bookmark function in 0.8 needs improvement. Some of the complaints
re: bookmarks recently were about 0.9 so I don't know if improvements
were made.

Mike Sa

 

[Del]

The catch is all extensions not updated for

it will not show up in the new extensions manager when you try to install
them, though you can use the "show old extension" to fix that.

Where is "show old extension?"

 

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Where is "show old extension?"

It's a new extension.

<http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/?extension=soe>

 

[Aaron]

Thanks, Aaron. Some of those features sound useful for me.

The bookmark function in 0.8 needs improvement. Some of the complaints
re: bookmarks recently were about 0.9 so I don't know if improvements
were made.

I don't really need advanced bookmark options , so I don't understand all
the complaints but I presume there are extensions that might help.

Mike Sa

Aaron (my email is not munged!)