Bamm Gabriana wrote:
There should be a pref:
Dropping a file into an FTP folder should
( ) Open it
(x) Upload it
For such an obscure option, you'd need to prefix it with an explanation.
I suggest the following.
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| Mozilla's designers can't decide what should happen when a file or
Gervase Markham wrote:
http://www.mozilla.org.uk/docs/personae/
This is my contribution to the Who is Mozilla's target user? debate.
Comments welcome :-)
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You say this was inspired by Alan Cooper's /The inmates are running the
asylum/, but only one of your four personas (Ling) is a
David Tenser wrote:
Matthew Thomas wrote:
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So you have the worst of both worlds. Those people who normally
*would* want to customize their toolbar can't, and those people who
normally *wouldn't* want to customize it end up wishing they could.
Exactly. How long will it take before
Justin H. wrote:
Matthew Thomas wrote:
Because I don't want to have it on my conscience that I didn't help.
I don't have the knowledge, hardware, or temperament to contribute
code, so I taught myself about UI design and contributed that
instead.
If you don't mind my asking
David W. Fenton wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Thomas) wrote in
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I don't like Mozilla. From a user's point of view, Mozilla is
worse in every respect -- except page rendering speed -- than 4.x,
MSIE, or iCab. The installation process is worse, the footprint is
worse, the UI
David Tenser wrote:
Jonas Jørgensen wrote:
Blake Ross wrote:
This article is actually written by a staff member of Mozilla,
Thankyou, David, for giving me a good laugh there.
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if you think most people desire a different toolbar layout than
the default, you're thinking too
*not* that it will never
get better. If Matthew Thomas didn't like Mozilla,
I don't like Mozilla. From a user's point of view, Mozilla is worse in
every respect -- except page rendering speed -- than 4.x, MSIE, or iCab.
The installation process is worse, the footprint is worse, the UI is
worse, the responsiveness
Michael Gratton wrote:
Matthew Thomas wrote:
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Please lose your fixation with Microsoft. This is nothing to do with
what some company `thinks' a plain XML file looks like;
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I was trying to point out that you were (at least trivially) wrong
when you argued that IE's behaviour
Mama Cass wrote:
In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard Christopher Jahn
say these wise words:
But as usual, MS added features and convinced users to become
reliant on them rather than deal with the issues that users
actually aak for. After all, how long did it take to
DeMoN LaG wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Thomas) wrote in news:3C26022D.4584515
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The alternative would be wasting time implementing stuff that their
customers *don't* want. In this case (though not in all cases) that
wouldn't make them any money, so there wouldn't be any point
Chris Lee wrote:
I want the ability to set a referer for any page that I access by
typing in a URL so that I can go directly to a page on one of those
servers that only accept access to the page from a previous page on
their site. this way I dont have to brows if I know where to go.
DeMoN LaG wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Thomas) wrote in
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Michael Gratton wrote:
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Splitting hairs: more *useful*, not more *correct*. How can you be
correctly doing something that is undefined? 8)
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By doing what people want and expect, instead of what they don't
want
Michael Gratton wrote:
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Matthew Thomas wrote:
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By doing what people want and expect, instead of what they don't
want or expect.
Hmm, I don't know about you, but I don't want to see what MS thinks a
plain XML file looks like,
Please lose your fixation with Microsoft
Frank wrote:
dman84 wrote:
Frank wrote:
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i hate it to click a Dialog Box ever and ever if i load a Page
WHERE I ALREADY KNOW that they arent exists. How can i stop this
Popup the connection was refused when attempting to contact
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see bug 28586
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Many Thanks. I
DeMoN LaG wrote:
Q. Is Internet Explorer committed to implementing standard X in the
future?
A. Microsoft is committed to implementing the Internet standards that
make sense to allow our customers to build great solutions. As
standards emerge, we evaluate them to see which standards
Walter Dnes wrote:
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Gimmee an F
Gimmee an O
Gimmee an R
Gimmee a K
What does that spell ? (Apologies to anybody who was at Woodstock)
It's too bad I'm not a C programmer, having just recently finished a
beginner's introductory course to C.
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Having programming
A Martinez wrote:
Jason Kersey wrote:
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Wrong. The point is that this is a convienient way for IE users to
get a feel for our product. Just because IE does it doesn't make it
bad.
Well, then wake up and add F3 right now. I use this shorcut in every
app except in Mozilla where
Ben Goodger wrote:
Always glad to correct mistaken impressions. Peter Trudelle said this
in npm.browser:
There seems to be some misconception about what open source is. The
code is controlled by module owners, who are under no compulsion to do
what 'the community' wants (assuming,
Bradley Baetz wrote:
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This is configurable, and sending referer at all can be disabled by
the user. See nsHttpChannel::SetReferrer for the logic.
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Though not for any reasonable definition of the word `user'. :-) The bug
for this is `UI-Pref to send HTTP Referer (referrer)
Michael Gratton wrote:
Matthew Thomas wrote:
Therefore MSIE's behavior is more correct.
Splitting hairs: more *useful*, not more *correct*. How can you be
correctly doing something that is undefined? 8)
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By doing what people want and expect, instead of what they don't want
Greetings, Mozilla hackers and bugjockeys
This is a courtesy note to let you know that sometime in the next few
weeks, you will become extremely disoriented and frustrated for a period
of two or three days. (This is in addition to any non-Mozilla-related
disorientation and/or frustration you may
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Lairo wrote:
Bob Davis wrote:
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Ctrl+Pg Up and Ctrl+Pg Down.
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Yeah, they really botched it with the tab switching by KB (it's
undiscoverable). It would be much better if it was CTRL+Tab and
CTRL+SHIFT+Tab. Oh well :(
Those keypresses are
tan quach wrote:
Is there any intention to allow localization of local mail folder
names such as Inbox, Trash, Sent, etc. Currently, I believe they
are being hardcoded into the mozilla code, but isn't that what XUL,
XPCOM was invented for? Being able to customize the user interface
Simon Montagu wrote:
Claude Gohier wrote:
Jay Garcia wrote:
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That only works if the page is already in memory/cache. He's
speaking of moving to a NEW page without having to scroll down to
a NEXT PAGE button and clicking on it. I know of no way to do
that.
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There could
Michael Gratton wrote:
Ranjit Mathew wrote:
It would be quite nice (REALLY nice) if Moz could
apply a default XSL to XML files that do not supply
one. That shouldn't be too hard.
I dunno, it seems much more correct to not have a default, because
unless you *do* specify a
Henri Sivonen wrote:
There's now a Mozilla Web authoring FAQ at
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html
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This is excellent work. We really need more documentation like this, if
Web developers are going to want to bother developing for W3C
specifications rather than the
Mike Koenecke wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] allegedly wrote:
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By any chance is your image settings at accept images from
originating server only
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Oh, for crying out loud. I'll just slink away now, with my tail
between my legs.
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Not your fault -- it's a practically useless setting,
dnar wrote:
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Also, you cant easily get to the end of a text section without the
cursor inadvertantly being placed at the beginning. Cursoring to the
end of a text section results in returning to the beginning once the
end is reached.
`Right arrow key at end of a TEXTAREA goes to the
Asa Dotzler wrote:
David Coppit wrote:
Frequently I hear people say Mozilla is not an end user
application. Most often this is in reply to people asking about
spell checkers for mail/news.
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If someone were to develop a copyright/royalty/patent free
Stop me if I'm wrong, but I
Joseph N. wrote:
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If the code is freely available, what keeps someone from developing
an alternative browser based on the same code? It's my understanding
that the rights to the code are spread out over so many people that
copyright law does not really control the issue.
Various
JTK wrote:
Mike Koenecke wrote:
I mentioned this before, but the *one* reason I find I still have to
keep Internet Explorer handy on my machine these days is for
downloading files from Web links. More often than not, it seems that
Mozilla just flat stalls on trying to download a file
Christopher Jahn wrote:
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The entire display of headers in Netscape6.xx/Mozilla is terrible.
I hate the damn header bar or whatever you call it. The header
belongs in the message, not some stupid toolbar that remains in view
the whole time.
You're right there. Showing the headers all the
Jay Garcia wrote:
Daniel Veditz wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to force non html (text) in mail? Is there a way
I can get Moz to stop rendering html in my mail. To just show
text (even if it's html)?
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No, there isn't. I sure wish there were.
`Optionally
Jason Bassford wrote:
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Such cheat sheets are the hallmark of poor user interface.
It's an interesting dilemma. If you put all of the cheat
information into the UI then you end up with a wildly unwieldly UI due
to its size. Nobody would be able to use if effectively. But if you
Jonas Jørgensen wrote:
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In my opinion, naming the first final version Mozilla 5.0 will solve
tons of problems and complications, and I can't really see any good
reasons not to. I'm I the only one who thinks this is a good idea?
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No, you're not the only one.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas,
Jerry Baker wrote:
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Apparently no one is investigating the poor adoption of Mozilla/NN6 at
all. I would be interested in working with anyone who wishes to assist
with creating a survey for NN4.X users to ascertain why they shun
Mozilla/NN6. I think it would be most telling.
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Why
Wim Roffel wrote:
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What interests me most however, is whether there is anyone else who
experienced:
- the inexplicable slowness (accessing localhost should be fast)
Perhaps Mozilla was loading the BMP file (BMP files tend to be quite
large), even though it couldn't display it? Try making
Scott wrote:
I just installed Netscape 6.1 beta and I am having a problem when I
start it from a shortcut. It opens in the same window as the
currently open window instead of starting a new browser window.
How do I get it to start a new browser window when I start it from a
windows
Ian Hickson wrote:
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No, I mean the user-customisable sidebar to which you can add custom
content. However, Blake tells me that IE have retracted this feature
in the most recent builds, so forget I mentioned it.
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Yeah. http://wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=20648
Internet
Allan Peda wrote:
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Mozilla however insists on first giving me a prompt to confirm a
launch with freeamp, even though I have the correct mime type
specified.
Is this a registry setting or what. Since MSIE asks for no such
confirmation, I figure Mozilla is being extra cautious.
Yes,
Warren Bell wrote:
I don't know if this is a bug or somone actually meant it to be this
way but why would you have the right click context menu execute on the
release of a right click?
To make context menus slower to use, and harder to cancel out of.
One of the
Phil Edwards wrote:
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Could there be an option (for advanced users, off by default) to
additionally display the cookie data in the prompting dialog box?
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Yes, there could, if somebody implemented it.
See `Cookie confirmation dialog should show all data'
Steve Snyder wrote:
The first thing I do when firing up Mozilla is to set the text size to
120%. For some reason, this gets me readable text where setting the
font sizes in Preferences doesn't. (This is on a RedHat v7.1 system.)
Is there a way to *automatically* have Mozilla set the
Jared Breland wrote:
This may have been discussed here previously, but I couldn't find
anything about it on Bugzilla.
See `context menus display on button up instead of down'
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49844.
In Netscape Communicator, the
Gervase Markham wrote:
I was starting to feel in the minority. grin Actually, what I
hate more than the salting is the fact that the user community has
been given no choice in the matter. (And saying you can write your
own code or pay money, etc., isn't really the point.)
Well
Mark Anderson wrote:
Matthew Thomas wrote:
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The Web loses some usefulness in people not being required to author
perfectly valid, perfectly accessible, well-indexable pages. But it
gains far, far more usefulness in the resulting ease with which
people can put up information *at all
Mark Anderson wrote:
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Matthew, you have way too much time on your hands. :) (What are your
real thoughts on this, anyway?)
If you can't guess, then I haven't been doing a very good job over the
past year ...
Ceteris paribus, from a usability point of view the equation is fairly
clear: the
Gervase Markham wrote:
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As Heikki said, it needs super-review. If you could tell us where you
looked to not find the process to follow, if you see what I mean,
we'll attempt to make the document which describes what happens more
visible :-)
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If the Mozilla Organization has a problem
JLP wrote:
Niko Pavlicek wrote:
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I'd like the proposal with a popup or another error message which
asks the user what mozilla should do.
I agree with showing the error message to the user. It should also
have an option to remember his choice for this error and use it
automativally
Mark Anderson wrote:
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I still wish HTML validation was required to publish a page. This
kind of thing would never have happened if browsers hadn't started
letting shoddy HTML through the cracks.
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And if pages had always been required to be perfectly valid, the Web
would be about a
Steve Parkinson wrote:
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I want to be able to select some text in a web page, right click it,
and be able to do a search on that selection.
Here, have some bookmarklets for your Personal Toolbar.
--
javascript:id=document.getSelection();if(!id){void(id=prompt('Enter
Mozilla bug number
Gervase Markham wrote:
Also exactly what are the qa groups meant for??
Quality Assurance.
I mean, what kind of questions should be posted to qa rather than
general or seamonkey ...
Ones about Quality Assurance :-) Hope that helps...
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Of course it doesn't help, Gerv. :-/
Warren Bell wrote:
I don't want my IE favorites imported into Mozilla. I delete the
folder from the bookmarks but it automatically imports every time I
start Mozilla. Is there any way to stop it from doing this?
Not yet. See `Cannot permanently delete Imported IE Favorites folder'
Asa Dotzler wrote:
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We'd all love to have every feature under the sun (and a pref for
every one of them)
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Speak for yourself. I'd rather have a browser which loads within two
seconds, and a prefs dialog my mother can understand.
But then, I'm weird that way.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas,
Warren Bell wrote:
I just downloaded the latest Mozilla nightly and am impressed. It's
comming along nice, especially with the classic skin. The only thing
about the classic skin that I wish it had was the ability to globally
change the toolbar icons to just icons, just text or text/icons
Diego Pietralunga wrote:
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When Mozilla starts, I CANNOT find the address bar!!
Where do I put the URL about where I want to go?
I cannot see it!
You can enter URLs in the text field that is to the right of the
navigation buttons (Back, Forward, Reload, and Stop) -- even though the
Brian Kendig wrote:
I'm running the latest nightly build on a Mac. Ever since I visited
the volvo.com web site, which (annoyingly!) resizes the browser window
to full-screen,
See `Don't allow JS in Web pages to resize my browser window'
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60323.
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Andreas Franke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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* Go Back broken for form post results
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55055
Are there any indications of when the bug will be fixed?
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The bug will be fixed whenever someone fixes it. If you want to submit
Asa Dotzler wrote:
Henri Sivonen wrote:
Even Microsoft hasn't combined IE and OE in the same app although
those apps share some back end libraries.
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Um, this is what we're doing too. We have some libraries which can be
used to build things, a Web browser or a mail client or an HTML
Travis Hume wrote:
Are there plans to add a keyboard accelerator for the location bar.
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* `Can't hit tab to get focus in URL bar'
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31809
* `Feature: Ctrl+Tab to quick-switch between "panes"'
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30864
Gervase Markham wrote:
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Can you be serious? If so, there is little hope for this project.
Why? Again, as I understand the way things are working, Mozilla is a
developers product - other companies - Netscape, Nokia, Beonex - take
the code and make products out of it. _Those_ products
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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When I chose "View Bugs Already Reported Today" my Sidebar popped
open, even though I explicitly turned it off. Turn it off, reload
page, and it pops open again.
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You may be another victim of `Sidebar should not appear when I use a Web
search site'
Daniel Veditz wrote:
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If he's talking about form auto-fill, there's a preference to turn it
off available on the preferences dialog.
There's no way for a *site* author to turn it off, though. Not sure if
that's a good or bad idea. It would help folks too stupid to think
saving a credit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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My name is Martin Maher and I work for Sun Microsystems in
Dublin, Ireland. I am part of group which is very interested in
working with Mozilla to enchance Mozilla's address book in the
corporate/enterprise arena.
That is truly excellent.
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o Ensure Mozilla
Ben Bucksch wrote:
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As I said, m.users won't help us here. They will either go to
netscape.communicator or m.apps.mailnews. Why should they go to
m.users?
Because that's what they are, users.
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There is *no* Mozilla user, not even the above-average user. There are
only sincere testers
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