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Christopher Jahn | 1 Jan 2005 01:38

Re: Mozilla not very open

And it came to pass that  wrote:

> One would think that Mozilla being an open source software
> operation that it would be an open type environment.  But
> it doesn't seem to be so.
> 
> For example, there are extensions available for mozilla
> products. Ratings are shown for these.  But rarely are
> there more than a few who have rated an extension, even the
> most popular ones which have been downloaded tens of
> thousands of times.  It appears there is a very small
> select community which is allowed to rate 

Or, just maybe, only those few people bother rating the 
extension, which is in fact that case.

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THOMAS CONLON | 1 Jan 2005 04:02
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Questions about favorites/bookmarks

1. Does Firefox have a favorites folder like IE does?  If so, where is it; i 
cannot find it.
2. I see i can import favorites from IE, or from a file, but not from a 
folder.  Is there a way to import a folder that contains favorites, 
importing them all at once instead of one by one?
3. Is there a way to export bookmarks in a way that could then be usable by 
IE in the favorites folder?  I see the export feature.  Interesting/nice 
feature for some uses, but could not become part of IE favorites menu in 
this fashion.

Thanks,
tom
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Chaos Master | 1 Jan 2005 04:42

Re: act as server?

I wish I had Jay Garcia's angel tonight:

> > There is one web based chat site (also accessible via IRC)
> > that cues Zone Alarm to pop up with a message saying that
> > Firefox is asking to act as a server.  I can use the site if
> > FF is a server or not, so why would it need to be a server
> > and what is it doing when it acts as a server?
> > 
> > TIA
> 
> Set ZA to allow that and don't worry about it. It's an internal function
> whereas the PSM (Personal Security Module) is acting as a "server" to
> "localhost". Strictly an internal function.

And on this case the OP is posting (IRC-based web chat) the IRC server 
may be sending a IDENTD request. Clients IRC like mIRC or XChat handle 
this by default, but not Firefox (as it isn't supposed to do this by 
default)

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Doug Main | 1 Jan 2005 06:35
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Re: Questions about favorites/bookmarks

THOMAS CONLON wrote:
> 1. Does Firefox have a favorites folder like IE does?  If so, where is it; i 
> cannot find it.
> 2. I see i can import favorites from IE, or from a file, but not from a 
> folder.  Is there a way to import a folder that contains favorites, 
> importing them all at once instead of one by one?
> 3. Is there a way to export bookmarks in a way that could then be usable by 
> IE in the favorites folder?  I see the export feature.  Interesting/nice 
> feature for some uses, but could not become part of IE favorites menu in 
> this fashion.
> 
> Thanks,
> tom
> 
> 
> 
Documents and Settings/<user's account>/application 
data/mozilla/firefox/profiles/######.default

look here for a file called bookmarks.  It's an html document and you 
should be able to import/export this wherever you want
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Ralph Fox | 1 Jan 2005 06:58

Re: Questions about favorites/bookmarks

On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 03:02:11 GMT, in message
<TooBd.21745$_62.20780 <at> trnddc01>, THOMAS CONLON wrote:

> 1. Does Firefox have a favorites folder like IE does?  If so, where is it; i 
> cannot find it.
> 2. I see i can import favorites from IE, or from a file, but not from a 
> folder.  Is there a way to import a folder that contains favorites, 
> importing them all at once instead of one by one?
> 3. Is there a way to export bookmarks in a way that could then be usable by 
> IE in the favorites folder?  I see the export feature.  Interesting/nice 
> feature for some uses, but could not become part of IE favorites menu in 
> this fashion.

1.  Your Firefox bookmarks are all stored in a single file "bookmarks.html"
    which you will find in your personal Firefox profile folder.

    To locate your personal Firefox profile folder, see 
    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

2, 3.  You need a third party "bookmark manager" which can convert between
       a folder of internet shortcuts ("favorites") and a single .HTML file 
       containing all of the links.
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kicken | 1 Jan 2005 10:07

Re: No Friggin E-Mail Its gone

ARR wrote:
> not that easy...  The program does not see any messages, address book, etc.
> 
> Jay Garcia wrote:
> 
>> On 30.12.2004 08:40, ARR wrote:
>>
>>  --- Original Message ---
>>
>>
>>> Okay, heres the problem.  I have set up accounts, etc on TB 1.0 for 
>>> email, news, etc.  2 times now, thunderbird has lost the email, as in 
>>> when I run TB, it asks me to set up new accounts.  I have tried to 
>>> compact the folders to help avoid this problem, but the program still 
>>> loses the email, even though I can go to the file location and see 
>>> the folder with all my email.  I have had to physically cut/copy into 
>>> a new account.  While not impossible, it is time consuming and a 
>>> general pain in the ass.  2 questions:  One, how can I avoid this 
>>> from happening again, short of changing email client.  Two:  is there 
>>> any way to tell thunderbird where the folders are so I do not have to 
>>> cut/copy and spend  all this time working on restoring the email.
>>>
>>> Thanks!

Sounds like the old mozilla bug where it would randomly loose it's 
preferences.js file or whatever it was and you had to go back into it 
and re-setup all your preferences and email accounts.  When that was 
happening what I did was just copied the prefs.js file to a backup 
location and whenever mozilla would "forget things" I copied closed 
mozilla, replaced the current prefs.js file with the backup I had saved,
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jbclem | 1 Jan 2005 12:53
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Mozilla windows (ie image manager) won't close or react to clicks

Mozilla 1.7.3 has been acting stranger every day.  First taking a long time to go to a
web site, often not going (yes, I've renamed the Hosts file so that shouldn't be a
problem), and now simple Mozilla management windows will open and then not react to a
mouse click...windows such as "image manager" which is open right now and will not allow
me to close or cancel it.  Same thing happened earlier with Bookmark management windows,
and File Bookmark windows.  They would get stuck and sometimes if I closed every other
Mozilla window/tab they would come back to life and allow me to close them.

Also, I recently installed Java 5, which seemed to work really well...but today i can't
access simple help files on a certain website and down at the bottom of the page for
each one I can't access, is this term: javascript: void(0).  I tried IE6 and had no
problem with this web page and it's help files.

Not sure what to do with these problems...any suggestions would be very helpful.

John
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Doug Kanter | 1 Jan 2005 15:05
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Re: No Friggin E-Mail Its gone


"kicken" <slick <at> aoeex.com> wrote in message 
news:nPtBd.848$Rq2.469 <at> fe04.lga...
> ARR wrote:
>> not that easy...  The program does not see any messages, address book, 
>> etc.
>>
>> Jay Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> On 30.12.2004 08:40, ARR wrote:
>>>
>>>  --- Original Message ---
>>>
>>>
>>>> Okay, heres the problem.  I have set up accounts, etc on TB 1.0 for 
>>>> email, news, etc.  2 times now, thunderbird has lost the email, as in 
>>>> when I run TB, it asks me to set up new accounts.  I have tried to 
>>>> compact the folders to help avoid this problem, but the program still 
>>>> loses the email, even though I can go to the file location and see the 
>>>> folder with all my email.  I have had to physically cut/copy into a new 
>>>> account.  While not impossible, it is time consuming and a general pain 
>>>> in the ass.  2 questions:  One, how can I avoid this from happening 
>>>> again, short of changing email client.  Two:  is there any way to tell 
>>>> thunderbird where the folders are so I do not have to cut/copy and 
>>>> spend  all this time working on restoring the email.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>
> Sounds like the old mozilla bug where it would randomly loose it's 
> preferences.js file or whatever it was and you had to go back into it and
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Ed Mullen | 1 Jan 2005 15:08
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Re: Tomcat error 404, favicon.ico not fount

Neil Marshall wrote:
> Stan Brown wrote:
> 
>> "Neil Marshall" wrote in netscape.public.mozilla.general:
>>
>>> Stan Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Big Slim" wrote in netscape.public.mozilla.general:
>>>>
>>>>> Before I mess with this any more, my big question is: why on earth
>>>>> should I have to insert an icon file in the root directory of the site
>>>>> when I don't really want or need one? There is nothing in my build 
>>>>> that
>>>>> refers to favicon.ico, so why does Firefox insist on looking for it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Annoying, isn't it?
>>>>
>>>> In looking at the 404 logs on my site I saw a huge number for 
>>>> /favicon.ico -- despite the fact that every single page on my site 
>>>> links to the actual location of the favicon. Since the favicon 
>>>> itself is shorter than the 404 response I duplicated the favicon.ico 
>>>> file in my root directory.
>>>
>>>
>>> How does it link to it?
>>>
>>> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
>>>
>>> ^-- Is it like that?
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foghat9 | 1 Jan 2005 17:14

Loading question

After my harddrive crash, I got a new one and I've reinstalled Mozilla. 
However there seems to be s difference this time. It takes forever to 
get my mail loaded and using Google to access a site, I keep getting 
timed out before it loads. What's up with this?
thanks, foghat
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