Posted on 06/25/2004 7:05:03 PM PDT by ShadowAce
I have been test driving FireFox on my machine. I haven't put it on my other two machines yet.
In Firefox, I highlight the desired text and right-click, click on "View Partial Source."
Firefox. For a long time now. The last version was an easy upgrade. The only reason I have to use IE is to read MSNBC's web page. ....figures....they do some weird crap that only their weird IE browser can deal with. ...sometimes it works...sometimes it doesn't there. Jerks (LOL)
BTTT
yeah, because if windows and IE went away, no one would ever ever ever ever write malware, virus, or anything else to mess with the current operating system.
bump
I did too.
Just tried - that is waaaay cool!
Ha-ha-ha! That's the best they can do? That's some fix. Well then they shouldn't be surprized when they wake up tomorrow to find that a large portion of their user base has switched to Firefox. A-holes.
There are several layers of security issues, some permanent, some that may change in the future.
1) IE is intertwined with the OS. This is a problem because it magnifies any flaw in the browser by giving access to OS stuff. MS could fix this, but lets face it, anti-trust couldn't get MS to seperate them, nothing as minor as the security of their customers will.
2) Prevalence: MS and IE are king of the hill. Anyone who is writing malware has to target the vast majority of people using it. There just aren't enough users of other systems for it to be worthwhile for them to target it, there just isn't critical mass.
3) Open/Closed source: I use mozilla/firefox, but if it really cought on and became much more popular (say somewhere around 20% market share), I would switch to something CS. The fact that it is open source means that hackers can look through the code for weakness. That is a downside for OS, but it only matters once it is common enough to be worth targeting.
For anyone new to Firefox (or those thinking about upgrading to 0.9) i would recommend waiting until 0.91 comes out, which is supposed to fix a number of rather nasty bugs. Last i heard it should be coming within a few days. For those that can't wait, be careful when installing extensions for 0.9. I suggest reading through the user comments section that accompanies each extension on the download page before you install an extension so that you'll know if other users have experienced any trouble with it. Also when upgrading an extension with 0.9 you should uninstall the old extension before you install the newer one.
Hope none of this scares anyone away from trying it. I absolutely love Firefox and Thunderbird (especially extensions like All-in-One Gestures, DictionarySearch, and Adblock) but they are still in the testing stages and so problems can occasionally crop up.
U.S. Planes Bomb Suspected Militants in Zarqawi Hunt Fri Jun 25, 2004 07:19 PM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes bombed a suspected guerrilla safe house in Iraq on Friday, stepping up a hunt for Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi who has been blamed by Washington for a series of deadly attacks. "Somewhere between 20 and 25 people were killed in today's strike," said a U.S.-led coalition official, who declined to be named. No details on who was killed were immediately available. The U.S. military said the house in the restive town of Falluja, some 30 miles west of Baghdad, was a "known Zarqawi network safe house" and was destroyed in the daylight strike, the third on suspected Falluja safe houses this week. "This operation employed precision weapons to target and destroy the safe house and underscores the coalition's continuing resolve...to completely destroy terrorist networks," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said in a statement. Falluja residents said the house, in the southeast of the town, was reduced to rubble. Washington, due to hand over to an interim Iraqi government on June 30, accuses Zarqawi of links to al Qaeda and says he has masterminded a number of major attacks, as well as being responsible for the beheading of an American and a South Korean. Militants in Falluja issued a statement on Friday denying Zarqawi was holed up in the town. THREE IRAQI POLICEMEN KILLED Guerrillas killed three Iraqi policemen in an attack with rocket-propelled grenades on a police station near the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad. Some of the black-clad gunmen, who also attacked government buildings, proclaimed loyalty to Zarqawi and wore yellow headbands linking them to his militant group. Zarqawi threatened in a message on an Islamist Internet site on Wednesday to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. The prime minister and other top members of the interim government warned guerrillas on Friday that Iraq's fledgling security forces, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, were determined to crush them. Allawi blamed foreign fighters and Saddam Hussein supporters for killing more than 100 people in suicide bombings and other attacks on Thursday. "We are going to defeat them... We have been expecting this escalation and we are expecting more escalation in the days ahead," Allawi told reporters. "SHOWDOWN TIME" Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan said: "Today is the day for the Iraqi people to say to these traitors that the time has come for a showdown, and God willing that showdown will be big and victory will be for us, the people." A multinational force of 160,000 mostly U.S. troops will stay to support Iraqi forces after June 30. In a blow for President Bush as he campaigns for re-election in November with Iraq high on the agenda, a USA Today/CNN/Gallup opinion poll showed most Americans now say the U.S.-led invasion was a mistake. Fifty-four percent thought the invasion had been a mistake, compared with 41 percent three weeks ago. EU OFFICIAL DELIVERS WARNING Bush arrived in Ireland on Friday to a warning from a top European Union official that violence could break Iraq apart within months and that an EU role in reconstruction and election planning would be limited if security did not improve. EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten had little to offer but moral support as Bush launched his second European mission this month seeking international help with Iraq, before traveling to a NATO summit in Istanbul on Monday and Tuesday. "All of us are worried that violence could lead to Iraq flying apart in the next few months," Patten told reporters. NATO countries struck a tentative deal on an agreement to help the interim government train its security forces after hours of wrangling over the wording, diplomats said. "We've agreed it, we've agreed on it tentatively," one diplomat said in Brussels at a meeting of ambassadors from the 26 member states prompted by a request from Allawi. He said member states would have until 6 a.m. EDT on Saturday to raise objections, after which the wording of a statement to be released at the NATO summit in Istanbul would be deemed to have been adopted. NATO's role in Iraq will be a far cry from the deployment of troops originally sought by Washington that was shot down by opposition from France and Germany, fierce opponents of last year's invasion. |
FWIW, I recommend Firefox and Thunderbird as separate programs -- not the Mozilla suite.
MS can write malicious code as well, FireFox is not immune, just a thought.
Here's some trivia- I noticed my version, 0.8, is called "Royal Oak" and 0.9 is "One Tree Hill." Both are names of suburbs of Auckland, NZ. Interesting.
ALRIGHT!!!
That worked.
Got to work on some other issues but that was a big one for me.
Some of the extensions sound interesting.
Any suggestions there?
Oh, you must have that wrong. Security is now the top priority at Redmond. Bill said so.
Bump for later.
I have just downloaded Mozilla Firefox, I'm going to give this browser a chance to see what it is like.
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