Firefox 1.5.02 in now available

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none said:
"Breaking extensions" has NOTHING to do with Firefox. It's almost always
caused by the extension writer who specifies the current version of FF as
"last known good version." Savvy extension writers have learned to get
around that by specifying "Firefox 1.5+" which causes the extension to keep
working in subsequent upgrades. Unfortunately, not all of them have learned
this.

The MR Tech Local Install extension will allow you to get around this, and
also makes extension installation a breeze.
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Thank you for your reply.

I have sent your suggestion to Roboform's tech-support department.
 
Once Upon A Time (on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:51:18 -0500), in
alt.comp.freeware,
by way of Message-id said:
< [snip]
Better "safe" than sorry (imho; ymmv).
Sure.

Or to put this another way, if 1.5.0.2 is available on various &
sundry sites, why is it not advertised on & at 'Mozilla'?
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It's available from mozilla.com, not "various & sundry sites".
Something is going on....
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Yes, the release of a new version of Firefox.
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Now, yes. Not, however, when I first began bleating & squealing.
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No. The OP in this thread pointed to mozilla.org, not "various &
sundry sites", and what was going on the entire time was the release of
a new version of Firefox.
One should realize that, in 5 minutes or less, certain things (such as
the Official website) may change _completely_.
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Perhaps one should wait a while before starting the bleating &
squealing.
 
Once Upon A Time (on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:56:12 -0500), in alt.comp.freeware,
»Q« <[email protected]>, by way of Message-id
wrote: said:
Perhaps one should wait a while before starting the bleating &
squealing.
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You are equal with "Jondy", when it comes to thick-headedness.

Someone came in(to) here, saying 1.5.0.2 had been released, and showing an
apparently valid url (albeit of the http/ftp variety). So, to confirm same, I
browsed over within Mozilla.com (base, and the particular Firefox page), &
checked the link, to Newest-version. Nope; 1.5.0.1. Browsed over to
Majorgeeks.com; same thing (advert for 1.5.0.2, but actually serving 1.5.0.1).
Checked back (and refreshed) Mozilla.com; nothing new. Checked Filehippo.com;
1.5.0.1.

And so the checking went, on & on & on, until someone (you?) came along and
announced that Mozilla.com had *finally* put the right & proper link up.
--

Don't trust TinyURL links posted into Usenet?
If so, then go to "TinyURL Lookup", @
http://www.daveltd.com/bin/tinylookup.cgi

Web-browsing & Trojans got you down?
Firefox (<http://www.mozilla.com/>), along with
its' JButton v0.1 (<http://tinyurl.com/lw2y4> &
<http://tinyurl.com/nzg6t>) extension, will take
care of switching Javascript & Java in and out,
quite easily.
Another *extremely* good extension for
Firefox, to install is "NoScript"
(<http://tinyurl.com/qhdnd>,
<http://tinyurl.com/ne9kq>, &
<http://tinyurl.com/85k3z>).

Nervous about "Interesting times"? If so, then
browse <http://survivalblog.com/>


What a hobby for a grown Troll with my IQ...
 
Once Upon A Time (on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:09:43 GMT), in alt.comp.freeware,
by way of Message-id said:
Once Upon A Time (on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:56:12 -0500), in alt.comp.freeware,
»Q« <[email protected]>, by way of Message-id


You are equal with "Jondy", when it comes to thick-headedness.

Someone came in(to) here, saying 1.5.0.2 had been released, and showing an
apparently valid url (albeit of the http/ftp variety). So, to confirm same, I
browsed over within Mozilla.com (base, and the particular Firefox page), &
checked the link, to Newest-version. Nope; 1.5.0.1. Browsed over to
Majorgeeks.com; same thing (advert for 1.5.0.2, but actually serving 1.5.0.1).
Checked back (and refreshed) Mozilla.com; nothing new. Checked Filehippo.com;
1.5.0.1.

And so the checking went, on & on & on, until someone (you?) came along and
announced that Mozilla.com had *finally* put the right & proper link up.
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Mozilla.com, Mozilla.org; in essence the same end result. On (the) "official"
page, 1.5.0.1 was _not_yet_ shown, link-wise. What portion of that do you still
fail in comprehending?

Say... are you a lawyer? If so, then your cousin Carcharodon Carcharias is
looking for you.
--

Don't trust TinyURL links posted into Usenet?
If so, then go to "TinyURL Lookup", @
http://www.daveltd.com/bin/tinylookup.cgi

Web-browsing & Trojans got you down?
Firefox (<http://www.mozilla.com/>), along with
its' JButton v0.1 (<http://tinyurl.com/lw2y4> &
<http://tinyurl.com/nzg6t>) extension, will take
care of switching Javascript & Java in and out,
quite easily.
Another *extremely* good extension for
Firefox, to install is "NoScript"
(<http://tinyurl.com/qhdnd>,
<http://tinyurl.com/ne9kq>, &
<http://tinyurl.com/85k3z>).

Nervous about "Interesting times"? If so, then
browse <http://survivalblog.com/>


What a hobby for a grown Troll with my IQ...
 
Once Upon A Time (on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:15:20 GMT), in alt.comp.freeware,
by way of Message-id said:
Once Upon A Time (on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:09:43 GMT), in alt.comp.freeware,
by way of Message-id said:
Once Upon A Time (on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:56:12 -0500), in alt.comp.freeware,
»Q« <[email protected]>, by way of Message-id
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[snip]

Mozilla.com, Mozilla.org; in essence the same end result. On (the) "official"
page, 1.5.0.1 was _not_yet_ shown, link-wise. What portion of that do you still
fail in comprehending?

Say... are you a lawyer? If so, then your cousin Carcharodon Carcharias is
looking for you.
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Yep; this is what happens when I get pi**ed. Re "official", etc., make the
entry 1.5.0.2, *not* 1.5.0.1.
--

Don't trust TinyURL links posted into Usenet?
If so, then go to "TinyURL Lookup", @
http://www.daveltd.com/bin/tinylookup.cgi

Web-browsing & Trojans got you down?
Firefox (<http://www.mozilla.com/>), along with
its' JButton v0.1 (<http://tinyurl.com/lw2y4> &
<http://tinyurl.com/nzg6t>) extension, will take
care of switching Javascript & Java in and out,
quite easily.
Another *extremely* good extension for
Firefox, to install is "NoScript"
(<http://tinyurl.com/qhdnd>,
<http://tinyurl.com/ne9kq>, &
<http://tinyurl.com/85k3z>).

Nervous about "Interesting times"? If so, then
browse <http://survivalblog.com/>


What a hobby for a grown Troll with my IQ...
 
Once Upon A Time (on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:56:12 -0500), in
alt.comp.freeware,


You are equal with "Jondy", when it comes to thick-headedness.
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No idea what you're talking about.
Someone came in(to) here, saying 1.5.0.2 had been released, and
showing an apparently valid url (albeit of the http/ftp variety).
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A valid http URL for the Firefox 1.5.0.2 release directory, yes.
So, to confirm same, I browsed over within Mozilla.com (base, and
the particular Firefox page), & checked the link, to
Newest-version. Nope; 1.5.0.1. Browsed over to Majorgeeks.com;
same thing (advert for 1.5.0.2, but actually serving 1.5.0.1).
Checked back (and refreshed) Mozilla.com; nothing new. Checked
Filehippo.com; 1.5.0.1.
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Checking third party sites is a waste of your time if your concern is
to determine whether or not the Mozilla folks are releasing a new
version.
And so the checking went, on & on & on,
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I've got no problem with your checking on & on & on, just with your
premature bleating. I've suggested you wait longer before bleating, so
that I (or someone else) doesn't need to correct the misinformation you
post; it would be great if you'd consider the suggestion rather than
just label me thickheaded.
 
Al said:
Correcting my type: Under IE?
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Please note that I never said that Firefox extensions work in IE.



My previous post (sniped by you) said
"This in my opinion is Firefox's one big annoyance. I appreciate the
frequent updates to make it more stable and secure, however it is
irritating that my Roboform Toolbar ends up broken for a few days every
single time.

Internet Explorer patches have never caused this type of problem. Sadly
this is the one area where Microsoft's browser is superior to Mozilla's."



My point is that I have never had an Internet Explorer add-on, such as
my Roboform Toolbar for IE cease working simply because IE was patched.

Firefox is my default browser. I prefer it over every other browser I
have tried. I am just annoyed that every time it is updated, my most
necessary extension (Roboform) gets broken. After every update there are
the inevitable posts in this group about broken favorite extensions.
There must be a better way to update the browser that will allow all
extensions to be preserved.
 
The said:
(big snip)
Firefox is my default browser. I prefer it over every other browser I
have tried. I am just annoyed that every time it is updated, my most
necessary extension (Roboform) gets broken. After every update there are
the inevitable posts in this group about broken favorite extensions.
There must be a better way to update the browser that will allow all
extensions to be preserved.
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I doubt that this will ever happen, due to the fact that FF and its
extensions are developed separately and usually by different people. The
only cure would be if they started making FF contain all the (what they
call) bloat that was in Moz, and stopped allowing extensions.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett, Doc (who uses sock puppets)
or Roger Johansson, for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial
software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware,
spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.
 
I doubt that this will ever happen, due to the fact that FF and its
extensions are developed separately and usually by different people. The
only cure would be if they started making FF contain all the (what they
call) bloat that was in Moz, and stopped allowing extensions.
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I recently took a look at a couple of extensions that allow you to
conveniently disable/enable javascript, Java and flash. I thought they
took up too much screen space, and I also think having convenient
disable/enable of these things is a good thing from a security POV.
Therefore, IMO, these things should be incorporated in FF but without
the wasted screen space. There's plenty of room for the check boxes.
FF wastes some upper screen space as it is. So in in this case I think
the additional code would not be useless bloat, and well worth it.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Art said:
I recently took a look at a couple of extensions that allow you to
conveniently disable/enable javascript, Java and flash. I thought
they took up too much screen space, and I also think having
convenient disable/enable of these things is a good thing from a
security POV. Therefore, IMO, these things should be incorporated
in FF but without the wasted screen space. There's plenty of room
for the check boxes. FF wastes some upper screen space as it is.
So in in this case I think the additional code would not be
useless bloat, and well worth it.
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I guess you already tried that but just to be sure : most of the
menu bars added by extensions are fully integrable in FF UI. For
example, two one-full-line menu bars can easily be put side by side
with a "click right > personnalize" on the top menu bar and
therefore consume much less vertical space.
 
I guess you already tried that but just to be sure : most of the
menu bars added by extensions are fully integrable in FF UI. For
example, two one-full-line menu bars can easily be put side by side
with a "click right > personnalize" on the top menu bar and
therefore consume much less vertical space.
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No, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. However, it sounds from
what you're saying that a additional bar is required for the
extensions, and that's really what I object to. If the options were in
FF it seems to me that upper wasted screen space could be put to
good use.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
I am linking to this since it explains better than what I did in the previous message, the space-
concern-operations :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=400528&highlight=toolbars
No, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. However, it sounds
from what you're saying that a additional bar is required for the
extensions,
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No, not necessarily.
and that's really what I object to. If the options
were in FF it seems to me that upper wasted screen space could be
put to good use.
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There lots of threads about FF UI on mozillazine's forum ; here's one thread showing what can be
done :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=323514&highlight=toolbars
 
I am linking to this since it explains better than what I did in the
previous message, the space- concern-operations :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=400528&highlight=toolba
rs
No, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. However, it sounds
from what you're saying that a additional bar is required for the
extensions,
Click to expand...

No, not necessarily.
and that's really what I object to. If the options
were in FF it seems to me that upper wasted screen space could be
put to good use.
Click to expand...

There are lots of threads about FF UI on mozillazine's forum ;
here's one thread showing what can be done :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=323514&highlight=toolbars
 
I am linking to this since it explains better than what I did in the previous message, the space-
concern-operations :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=400528&highlight=toolbars


No, not necessarily.


There lots of threads about FF UI on mozillazine's forum ; here's one thread showing what can be
done :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=323514&highlight=toolbars
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I managed, using Customize and drag 'n drop to get NOScript extension
icon up in the top bar next to help ... and to not have it put a
yellow bar anywhere. So I'm happy that I've been able to use the main
extension I wanted without the extra toolbar. But I'm not happy that
I can't yet get rid of the fourth bar down from the top. It's
useless...complelely blank and just taking up screen space.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Art said:
I managed, using Customize and drag 'n drop to get NOScript
extension icon up in the top bar next to help ... and to not have
it put a yellow bar anywhere. So I'm happy that I've been able to
use the main extension I wanted without the extra toolbar. But I'm
not happy that I can't yet get rid of the fourth bar down from the
top. It's useless...complelely blank and just taking up screen
space.
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So far so good. Concerning the 'blank' toolbar issue, have you well
checked that in the general menu of FF : "view > toolbars >
the_given_toolbar" was unchecked ?

If this is done, may you are facing the problem evoked on the first
link to mozillazine's form I pointed at before and which itself
links to :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1965910
 
Art said:
I managed, using Customize and drag 'n drop to get NOScript
extension icon up in the top bar next to help ... and to not have
it put a yellow bar anywhere. So I'm happy that I've been able to
use the main extension I wanted without the extra toolbar. But I'm
not happy that I can't yet get rid of the fourth bar down from the
top. It's useless...complelely blank and just taking up screen
space.
Click to expand...

So far so good. Concerning the 'blank' toolbar issue, have you well
checked that in the general menu of FF : "view > toolbars >
the_given_toolbar" was unchecked ?

If this is done, maybe you are facing the problem evoked on the first
link to mozillazine's form I pointed at before and which itself
links to :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1965910
 
So far so good. Concerning the 'blank' toolbar issue, have you well
checked that in the general menu of FF : "view > toolbars >
the_given_toolbar" was unchecked ?
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Ah! That fixed it! Thanks much Antoine :)
If this is done, may you are facing the problem evoked on the first
link to mozillazine's form I pointed at before and which itself
links to :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1965910
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I'm not having any problem with deleting the bookmarks toolbar.
I just didn't know it could be done. So thanks again. IMO, that
makes for a much nicer uncluttered look.

Art


http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
I managed, using Customize and drag 'n drop to get NOScript
extension
icon up in the top bar next to help ... and to not have it put a
yellow bar anywhere. So I'm happy that I've been able to use the
main
extension I wanted without the extra toolbar. But I'm not happy that
I can't yet get rid of the fourth bar down from the top. It's
useless...complelely blank and just taking up screen space.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Guess what? No one really cares about your opinion, least of all
the Firefox developers.

Get over yourself.
 
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