Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and other Gecko-based software discussion (Part 1)

[DFX]

cool works well. cheers.

 

[j79zlr]

Just a heads up...the latest nightlies are looking pretty bad. Quite buggy and unstable. I suggest keeping away from them until 0.8 is released, which should happen in the next few weeks.
I've gone back to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031230 Firebird/0.7+ (Unofficial P4-optimized SSE2 build), and everything's working well now. Had to nuke my Firebird/profile folder after using the latest nightly build. =\

I just installed the 1/20/04 0.8+ and it seems to be OK

 

[NetRyder]

I just installed the 1/20/04 0.8+ and it seems to be OK

Right. The 20040119 build saw a heap of bug fixes, which is probably why the next day's build is more usable as compared to the previous builds.
We should be seeing 0.8 soon. I'll be waiting for that before I install any new builds now.

 

[belveder]

I have one issue with both Mozilla & Firebird and that is that when I try to make a posting on a forum and I want to (for example) put one line in bold using the bold option above the text box the cursor automatically goes to the bottom of the text box somewhere rather than doing the command I want it to, is there a way out of this?

Thanks

 

[Perris Calderon]

I forgot what the keyboard stroke is to close a tab

pleez remind me

thanx

 

[SPeedY_B]

Ctrl+w

 

[sboulema]

have a look here:
http://texturizer.net/firebird/keyboard.html

 

[muzikool]

Thanks for the heads up NetRyder. I'll be looking for 0.8.

 

[Perris Calderon]

thanx speedy

 

[X-Istence]

I have one issue with both Mozilla & Firebird and that is that when I try to make a posting on a forum and I want to (for example) put one line in bold using the bold option above the text box the cursor automatically goes to the bottom of the text box somewhere rather than doing the command I want it to, is there a way out of this?

Thanks

Cause its an IE feature that puts the tag where the cursor is placed, Mozilla FireBird doesnt support it.

 

[belveder]

Thanks for that X-Istence, I'll just keep doing it manually then

 

[Xie]

Anyone in here know how I would go about removing the "close other tabs" option when I right click a tab in mozilla? Also anyone running a newer nightly of mozilla then 2003/12/22? I'm tempted to install but don't wanna get a bad one ...

 

[Xie]

ok I took the plunge ..
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040130

so far so good ... /me crosses fingers

 

[NetRyder]

Yeah, I'm on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040128 Firebird/0.8.0+
No huge bugs that I've seen so far...just little minor things.

EDIT: On an SSE2 optimized Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040130 Firebird/0.8.0+ build now. This seems to work fine as well. Getting close to that milestone?

 

[Xie]

where do you get the "optomized" builds?

 

[sboulema]

there are mutliple people making optimized builds, so you can choose which one works best for you.

this are the builds from scragz:
http://scragz.com/files/mozilla/

 

[Perris Calderon]

xie...make sure you pick an "optimized" buid that's been compiled for your hardware...that's the idea of it

sboulema...I don't see a section on scragz page optimized for speed...does anyone have a page with anything like that?

 

[Xie]

awww ... no mozilla love :/

 

[NetRyder]

@Perris:

The builds don't specifically state that they're optimized for speed. The filename usually states the CPU-specific optimization.
For example, if you have a P4, like me, you would download the builds marked G7-SSE2. These builds also work with Pentium-M, Celeron 1.7 GHz and above, and Athlon64 processors.
Athlon XP's and newer Durons (with SSE) would use the G7-SSE builds.
Pentium III and Pentium III-core based Celerons would use the G6-SSE builds.

More official info about optimization flags:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore/html/_core_.2f.o.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore/html/_core_.2f.g.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...core/html/vclrfArchMinimumCPUArchitecture.asp

 

[NetRyder]

@Xie:

Look for optimized-builds of the Mozilla suite here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=6