Posted on 08/01/2004 7:11:33 AM PDT by TomGuy
Sure. And when subjected to the same kinds of driving, a Mercedes will break down in similar ways to a Ford -- fuel pumps, starters, etc, all will break.
Just not as often.
That is what quality *means*. That's how we define "quality".
Are MS-only folks really so unfamiliar with the concept? (again, fill in your own punchline here)
The prefs I changed were accessed through about:config. Open a new window. Type ABOUT:CONFIG into the address bar, then enter. Scroll down the list (it's in alphabetical order) and you'll find the entries
dom.disable_window_open_feature.location
dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar
dom.disable_window_open_feature.status
(I changed these three, but there are other pref values you can change also)
Right click on each of those entries and select "modify" from the context menu. Then change the value "false" to "true" and enter. Then close the browser and restart firefox.
Now click on the spoof test (you can find them here http://www.nd.edu/~jsmith30/xul/test/spoof.html ) and you'll see that the scam is easy to recognize so that you won't fall for it.
Linux Sux.
firefox user bump for later
Sure. And when subjected to the same kinds of driving, a Mercedes will break down in similar ways to a Ford -- fuel pumps, starters, etc, all will break. Just not as often. That is what quality *means*.
Nonsense. They're not being "subjected to the same kinds of driving". IE is a Humvee being driven through Mogadishu. Mozilla/FireFox is a rental car being driven through Kansas. Entirely different threat levels. Nobody is attacking Mozilla/FireFox; consequently, you can't define "quality" by comparing the number of times that the Humvee gets hit with enemy fire and patched -- and that which the Mozilla/FireFox rental car hits a glitch. Apples and oranges. Not even in the same universe.
That's how we define "quality".
No. That's how an anti-Microsoft whack-job inappropriately defines "quality".
I think we may finally be reaching the point at which the "alternative browsers" have enough of a market slice to start attracting their own cadre of badboys to attack them.
The results will likely be of mixed irony-quotient. On the one hand, now that they're facing hostile fire for the first time, they're apt to drop like flies. On the other hand, they won't be around to have anyone rub their faces in it, since they'll be off the air, mumbling something about someone getting the number of that truck.
I guess that a drop in the noise level might make a decent metric for evaluating the lack of robustness of their platforms of choice.
They drive the same information superhighways. Visit the same sites. Are subjected to exactly the same hazzards.
And quality *is* defined by how often something breaks.
IE breaks more often, on the same roads. :-D
After reading all the glowing testimonials here regarding Firefox I decided to download it and take it out for a spin. For me, it's not ready for prime time. There are too many annoyances and bugs at this stage in its development. I keep my firewall and anti-virus software and OS patches up to date and have not had any problems with IE. I'll keep Firefox, along with Netscape, to test web development. When it's is more mature I'll try it again.
Does it affect Camino?
Gee, nice patch...
Sure it does. A little knowledge of the difference between an application and an operating system is all you need to understand.
Ah, so dramatic. But wrong. There are plenty of bad guys out there gunning for everyone, there are plenty of crackers out there trying to crack everything. Including Mozilla/Firefox. In fact, with the source code *open* like it is, you might even expect far more exploits on it than IE.
Well, you *might* expect that -- if you didn't know about one of the bennies of open-source . . .
"while marginal browsers don't have the same kinds of attacks"
Exactly why I've gone to Firefox! The exploit listed above is going to reside on how many websites? I've known the whole IIS and IE infrastructure has been broken since the Code Red virus. Just look in your software upgrade list andsee how many patch/kludges have been applied.
Simply start using IE again if you want it. You can't get rid of it without getting rid of the whole Microsoft OS. Type "iexplore" in the Run command line.
Thank you for the tip !
"Whenever IE drives down the road, they throw out a nail strip. Or put a bullet through the front grill.'Why are you driving your IE?
The analogy has more than one level though, to wit ...
Why do you rob banks? Because that is where the money is.
Why don't you rob Fort Knox?
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