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The problem with the Mozilla of browsers is that decent functionality isn't included out of the box. This is what drove me away from Windows and I don't want to waste my life configuring things anymore.. so I can't really stand this browser.
- Mozilla: Firebird, Phoenix or whatever other names.
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This project is dead - see SeaMonkey.
See Firefox for other stuff, like extensions.
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
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- 2006-04-04 - (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded)
- ~2005-07-30 - 5.0 on (distribution not recorded)
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~2000-10-10 - Ancient notes (as old as Phoenix) on (distribution not recorded)
2006-04-04 - (version not recorded) ∞
So I'm playing around with some more web browsers and am playing with Mozilla right now.
I can tell that a focus bug exists not only in Firefox but also with Mozilla. I have to click on the page to use accesskeys (and probably more) on that page. Mozilla gets thrown away because it doesn't have proper accesskey support. It's very flakey. =(
Apparently Firefox has a monopoly on intelligence. It looks like all other browsers are completely fucked in the head. There is some significant thing which is completely mangled, and it generally comes down to accesskeys. All their configurability doesn't help either.. it's as though they specifically designed accesskeys to not be set in the sane alt-<key>
manner. Argh!
Maybe I should use Flock? Hrm. It'll probably have all the same problems as Firefox though.
Ungh, I learned that Firefox 2.0 is looking at mangling accesskeys. I guess I won't be able to surf anymore.
2019-09-25 - Some time after I learned of an _about:config_ preference to force Firefox to use alt-<key>
as the accesskey, and use alt-shift-<key>
for menus.
~2005-07-30 - 5.0 ∞
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050730
-
Accesskeys don't work.
- Apparently they want to pimp the broken Konqueror-style solution: http://wiki.mozilla.org/AccessKeys_solution
- Problems with accesskeys working on the focused window.
- Cannot move tabs around (probably requires an extension)
- "Load links in the background" must be set for control-click to open a tab in the background.
control-f5
doesn't do a hard-refresh.- There's no "clear private data" feature.
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Is missing the "apply" button for preferences.
To turn off alt
accessing the menu, visit about:config
change this:
ui.key.menuAccessKey = 18
to this:
ui.key.menuAccessKey = 0
Unfortunately this doesn't fix accesskeys and allow things like alt-e
for editing in MediaWiki. Sad.
~2000-10-10 - Ancient notes (as old as Phoenix) ∞
This date was estimated from the bug report dates.
The random profile directory ∞
- Bug 56002 - Make path to profile dir unpredictable
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Bug 97180 - Make profile directory salting more user-friendly
It has been discovered that the profile directory salting was intentional for security reasons, and is merely abusable as an anonymity hole.
Mozilla uses ~/.mozilla/defaults/<random-8>.<random-3>
to save it's profile information. This has no real use but to more easily distinguish users.
To remove this "functionality":
- edit
~/.mozilla/appreg
-
change the directory string which refers to that random character profile directory.
- Change it to
default/
and delete the random junk after it.
- Change it to
- Move all those files from the random junk directory into
default/
. -
Remove the junk directory entirely.
Why would this random junk directory name exist in the first place? Why would it continue to exist after years of use? It can't be unintentional.
- Followup: Under Firebird 0.61,
~/.phoenix/appreg
has been encoded. This could only have been done to intentionally void the above security resolution. This is terrible. -
Under Firefox 1.5 it still exists, but
profiles.ini
is user-editable.
Forced homepage ∞
Mozilla has the ability to force interaction with a website, ignoring the user's preference.
- Change the settings to set a user homepage
- Move
~/.mozilla
to a backup - Start phoenix (note the forced homepage)
- Exit
- Delete
~/.mozilla
- Restore the old
~/.mozilla
-
Start phoenix
- Note the forced homepage even though the user's setting is somewhere else
Random notes ∞
-
Mozilla website directs people to a wish list newsgroup. While posting there, I learned that it was a developer list, and in the middle of coversations I apparently had all my posts nuked with no warning.
- Browser:
- I turned off URL completion and location bar searching. However, mozilla was still doing searches through netscape. I had to explicitly ban access to Netscape with a third party app to avoid this.
- type-ahead searching is really fucked up.. it only works to search through the displayed names of URLs, not the actual body of the webpage.
-
be able to search within URLs and embedded stuff like that. (picture URLs)
Last updated 2020-05-02 at 07:11:50
ported
I may as well push the date back to a bug report's creation date which I referred to.
dropped in a 2006-04-04 note