Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and other Gecko-based software discussion (Part 2)

[NetRyder]

Hurrah for Gecko! \o/

 

[SPeedY_B]

I'm sure Apple/KDE will optmise KHTML somewhere along the way, Gecko definitely seems winnest at the moment though

I'll keep hopping between the browers though, each has their plus/minus points

 

[NetRyder]

True. The snapback feature in Safari looks interesting. I'm sure I'd be using it quite a bit if it were somehow implemented in Firefox down the line.

 

[NetRyder]

New Thunderbird artwork has been included in test builds, people! The icons and artwork have been created by Jon Hicks, the same person who created the awesome Firefox icon.

Here's the link to Jon's journal: http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/2004/04/thunderbird/

Check out details on the new test build here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=70521

Apart from the new artwork, this build also includes significant improvements to the junk mail filter, so it might be worth giving it a shot. I've installed it, but I don't have any junk mail to test it on at the moment.

The final 0.6 build should be coming sometime in the next few weeks.

 

[NetRyder]

And here's a dock icon (128x128 PNG) that I threw together using the images from Jon's site. Enjoy.

 

[muzikool]

Very cool icon.

 

[NetRyder]

Very cool icon.

Most definitely. It's a perfect complement to the Firefox icon.
They look awesome sitting next to each other on the dock.

 

[muzikool]

I need to check into Thunderbird since I've never used it. Would it be a good program to use if I needed a calendar?

Edit: There is no calendar built-in is there... just an extension?

 

[NetRyder]

Definitely. I was reluctant to move over from Outlook until I could find a viable calendar alternative.
Thunderbird has a calendar extension that you can install from here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html#download_thunderbird

If you want something separate, you can also get Mozilla Sunbird, which is the standalone version of the same calendar.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html

 

[muzikool]

OK, thanks... you beat me to it.

 

[sboulema]

Just a bit of self promoting.

If you are looking for extensions for Firefox,Thunderbid,Mozilla have a look at my site: www.extensionsmirror.nl

 

[funky dredd]

hmmm I can't seem to get the calendar to work with the newer thunderbird.
I get this. Any suggestions?

 

[funky dredd]

Forgot to add the pic

 

[indyjones]

Hi I am using the Firefox build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040326 Firefox/0.8.0+ (scragz)
What I want to know is there anyway for the IE equivelent of save as??? I have "save link to disk" on a right click, but would really like to specify the filename when downloading

 

[gonaads]

You should be able to save and rename whatever you are downloading.

But if you want you can check to see if you have it set correctly.

Click on "tools" at the top of your browser. (see first attachment) Then click "options".

Then click on the "downloads" icon on the left of the window that has opened up. Now make sure that "as me where to save every file" is ticked under the heading "download folder". (see second attachment)

Then when you download you should be able to rename the files when the dialog box opens asking where to save the files to.

 

[Daeron Tinúviel]

is there anyway to make tabs smaller??? like half of their current size, ilm lookin at mozillazine forums but havent found anything yet

 

[muzikool]

is there anyway to make tabs smaller??? like half of their current size, ilm lookin at mozillazine forums but havent found anything yet

Not that I know of. They do get smaller when you have tabs crowding the screen, but I don't know of a way to make them smaller all of the time.

 

[Daeron Tinúviel]

ok, thanks anyway........just that i though i have saw something about it somewhere........

 

[Johnny]

This firefos is nice. There are a couple of things that still don't work right.

• Not all pages show right
• The popup features are horrible, and there is no over ride for them
• The integrated download manager is o.k. But when you use flashget it brings an annoying page up that says it redirecting it to flashget.
• The select all don't work all the time
• You can't hightlight text very well

These are only a couple of things I can think of right off hand, I will post more as I find them.

 

[NetRyder]

hmmm I can't seem to get the calendar to work with the newer thunderbird.
I get this. Any suggestions?

Are you using the latest nightly calendar XPI?
If not, you need to install it from here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html#download_thunderbird
The latest as of now seems to be the 2004-04-08 build. I'm now using Sunbird for my calendar, so I'm not sure if this works or not.