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Dr Brain - Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:36 pm
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I just finished letting the spyware part of firefox update itself to 1.0.1.

It downloaded some install program and put it on my desktop. WTF is up with that?

It then procedes to put 3 copies of a shortcut to firefox on my desktop. Those are new copies, my old shortcut is still there. That makes for a total of four shortcuts to firefox (if you can't count) and one install program.

This just proves how awful firefox is. I recommend that everyone switch to IE to avoid critical bugs such as this one. IE has proven itself over its life to be a highly stable, reliable and totally bug free system.

Long live Microsoft!

CypherJF - Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:40 pm
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o.O

I didn't have any problems w/ the installer..

Mr Ekted - Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:10 am
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Firefox is starting to piss me off. Updating to 1.0.1 cost me about 4 hours trying to install all my extensions again. None of them auto-updated, and some didn't exist for 1.0.1. Also my theme no longer exists, so I had to choose another. The new find toolbar on the bottom of the window sucks. Look at the Firefox bug forums. It seems there's no end in sight for problems.

Long live open source.

CypherJF - Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:54 am
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hm, my theme and extensions worked :/ ... i guess im just lucky eh?

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:59 am
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Firebird 0.6 is working fine for me still.

50% Packetloss - Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:26 am
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I had the same thing with the 3 shortcuts on my computer. All my extentions worked though: the only main one I use is the google toolbar.
Still, this
http://secunia.com/product/4227/
is a lot better than this
http://secunia.com/product/11/

EdTheInvincible - Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:17 am
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Now I use IE with prompt on everything. No spyware yet. :)

Cyan~Fire - Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:26 am
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IE is the best browser ever. You never have to deal with setup problems because it installs itself! I mean, come on Firefox, get with the program!

Solo Ace - Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:39 pm
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I really can't tell if you people are being sarcastic or not about IE, but whatever.

Anything with Google toolbars is bad.

Dr Brain - Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:54 pm
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I love firefox. I hate IE. Sorry for any confusion.

Phyran - Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:56 pm
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Dr Brain wrote:

I love firefox. I hate IE. Sorry for any confusion.

are you schizophrenic?

SuSE - Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:31 pm
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he was being sarcastic...comparing trivial-ass little bugs that Firefox has to huge, gaping ugly fucked up idiotic bugs Internet Explorer has

...the Firefox install stuff has always sucked...bah, I think they have too much corporate backing, but there's no better alternative atm

lp_street_soldier - Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:32 pm
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And just what the hell has schizophrenia got to do with this forum? Don't even start to take this piss outta them people. My cousin is

But a fucking excellent computer man...

Oh yeah, GO FIREFOX (when you keep up

)

Dr Brain - Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:34 pm
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Phyran wrote:

[..]

are you schizophrenic?

I'm not. He is, though.

Assassin2684 - Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:39 pm
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No offence but when i used IE i got so many pop ups and now i havent gotten oen sence i got firefox

SuSE - Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:56 pm
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You don't get around much, then, Assassin - not even Firefox has good popup blocking.

D1st0rt - Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:16 pm
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haha you scared me for a second there doc with the Long Live M$ stuff, totally out of character. I didn't get any additional icons when I installed because I unchecked the "add icon" boxes. I did see the installer on my desktop, though.

Solo Ace - Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:24 am
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I haven't seen a single ad/popup since I use The Proxomitron.
It's an ugly program, but it works pretty good, and because it's running on another "slave" machine I don't really see it's there.

SuSE - Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:15 am
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some day someone will code up something for some browser that just literally does not allow popups if you don't want them, but Firefox is doing okay at the moment

CypherJF - Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:46 pm
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Never seen a pop up w/ Firefox.

and I love it. mwah.

Cyan~Fire - Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:31 pm
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With a little bit of customization, I have no problem with popups in the Mozilla Suite.

Pests - Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:55 pm
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There are some times when a popup isn't considered a popup.

Isn't this whole 1.0.1 release just to address the problem with characters in other languages being represented as english-like characters in firefox? I forgot what the term was called exactly but read about it somewhere.

Maverick - Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:14 am
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IE SUCKS
get over it, its true. Even microsoft stopped developing on it and will only release bug fixes. (Imagine the current IE still has hundreds bugs and security holes in it)

Firefox update consist of downloading the full new setup file then installing it and copying it over the old one. Worked fine with me, plus extensions.

CypherJF - Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:59 am
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Actually, they said that they're working on MSIE 7.0; but theres one part I couldn't remember, if it was only for Longhorn, or because of the issues at hand of Longhorn being delayed it'll be for XP.

Solo Ace - Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:42 pm
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gentoo.org wrote:

Due to a set of remotely exploitable bugs in Gaim and Mozilla-Firefox and locally exploitable bugs in QT and Kdelibs found in the last few hours before a final 2005.0 release was completed, it was decided by all of the members of Release Engineering to rebuild the release media to resolve these bugs, prior to release.
Release Engineering would like to thank the security team for their diligence in making sure Gentoo has top-notch security resolution, and also our Architecture Leads, for having the patience to put up with all of the last-minute updates and changes, and also for their assistance in quickly verifying these packages on their architectures.

Look what you Firefag newbies did.

Dr Brain - Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:23 pm
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Yah, look what we did. We made Gentoo more secure. Sorry.

SuSE - Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:17 pm
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Eh...made Gentoo for twats that don't use the latest packages secure, anyways.

mike - Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:35 pm
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Dr Brain wrote:

<3!!!! I know right firefox is so messed up and on most websites it totally rapes the layouts to look like some ugly crap

I.E FOR LIFE!<3

Pests - Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:07 pm
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CypherJF wrote:

Actually, they said that they're working on MSIE 7.0; but theres one part I couldn't remember, if it was only for Longhorn, or because of the issues at hand of Longhorn being delayed it'll be for XP.

Its seperate from Longhorn and its not going to include anything along the lines of conforming to the standards, full png support, ect.

k0zy - Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:25 pm
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mike wrote:

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<3!!!! I know right firefox is so messed up and on most websites it totally rapes the layouts to look like some ugly crap

I.E FOR LIFE!<3

Try validating these sites for conformance to (X)HTML and see what happens...
http://validator.w3.org

Pests - Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:02 pm
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Yeah someone needs to make a "Fuck Mozilla" banner sig thing. Would be leet, even I would wear it. Mozilla is such a horrible broswer, really. Every site is designed for IE and thats how it should be. Mozilla goes around fucking it up for everyone.

Night_Fox - Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:39 am
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Aww I just installed it

Oh well I´ll keep it for awhile and see what happens.

Solo Ace - Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:10 am
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SuSE wrote:

Gentoo for twats that don't use the latest packages secure

I'd be one of those twats, I guess.

Nah, I don't even have those packages.

Maverick - Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:24 am
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Pests wrote:

I don't think you get the real idea, do you... IE sucks. Everyone made the mistake of using IE and testing websites in IE. Mozilla is finally the solution to ALL IE problems.
Every site should work in Mozilla Firefox aswell as in IE. It's quite simple to do that; XHTML. The standard thats supported by both browsers. Sites that only work in IE is a sign of bad developing.

Smong - Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:55 am
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No one talking about the new browser AOL is making? Apparently they are starting with all the firefox code then adding bits.

EdTheInvincible - Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:11 pm
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AOL sucks, and that automatically makes everything they produce suck.

Solo Ace - Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:19 pm
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Isn't Winamp owned by AOL these days?

CypherJF - Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:27 pm
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Yes, Nullsoft is owned by AOL.

EdTheInvincible - Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:41 pm
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Just go check aol's current browser.. do you really think they would actually make mozilla better?

Solo Ace - Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:45 pm
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I don't, but I don't like Firefox and I think any browser derived fom it would suck.

Cyan~Fire - Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:52 pm
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Ed wrote:

Just go check aol's current browser.. do you really think they would actually make mozilla better?

Anybody who makes a quality product such as Winamp would obviously make Firefox better. Maybe it'll become they'll buy Firefox and make it the Winamp of browsers. Sweet!

Minimum System Requirements: 3.2gHz, 512MB RAM.

Smong - Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:25 pm
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

Minimum System Requirements: 3.2gHz, 512MB RAM.

It's not already like that? Takes 10 seconds to load on my computer.

SuSE - Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:12 pm
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Solo Ace wrote:

I don't, but I don't like Firefox and I think any browser derived fom it would suck.

Duh. It's still the best available atm.

Cyan~Fire - Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:26 pm
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The big, bulky Mozilla suite doesn't even take that long on mine (1.3gHz, 256MB RAM). Your computer must be crappy.

Pests - Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:30 pm
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Maverick wrote:

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I don't think you get the real idea, do you... IE sucks. Everyone made the mistake of using IE and testing websites in IE. Mozilla is finally the solution to ALL IE problems.
Every site should work in Mozilla Firefox aswell as in IE. It's quite simple to do that; XHTML. The standard thats supported by both browsers. Sites that only work in IE is a sign of bad developing.

However, if everyone tested and used IE there would be no problems. In fact , IE supports a bunch of cool things like ActiveX.

If you don't know I'm joking by now, your an idiot.

Dr Brain - Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:38 pm
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Problem with joking about a subject like this is that a lot of idiots say honestly exactly what we're saying sarcastically.

But I guess we've all learned that the hard way after this thread.

Dark Clouds+ - Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:15 pm
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I prefer Firefox over the IE browser cuz of the unnecessary spam that i get when i try to enter a link. Firefox just blocks everythin out, and doesn't make my comp lag as much.

myke - Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:18 pm
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solo:

as cypher said aol does own nullsoft but all of the original nullsoft programmers worked on winamp until winamp 5 was released then they started leaving 1 by 1 and now no original nullsoft programmers work there

Solo Ace - Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:04 am
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I know, myke, I think I read an article about the main programmer leaving Nullsoft when AOL took it.

I thought AOL's Nullsoft would make it suck worse than it does now already, but they probably lost the source of it.

Anonymous - Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:12 am
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Solo Ace wrote:

They didn't leave after AOL took it, but nowadays there's nobody left of the original Nullsoft at AOL. That's why WinAMP is dead, there are only a few programmers left, and they only do bugfixes.
The main programmer left first, he was pissed because he could not programm what he wanted. (Gnutella, WASTE)

k0zy - Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:14 am
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Stupid Internet-Privacy-Program erasing all my cookies...
Guest above = Me

Pests - Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:54 pm
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Dr Brain wrote:

Problem with joking about a subject like this is that a lot of idiots say honestly exactly what we're saying sarcastically.

But I guess we've all learned that the hard way after this thread.

Agreed, guess I shouldn't have counted on everyone to see my sarcasm. Maybe the large "GET FIREFOX" banner was hard to see.

Smong - Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:20 am
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I thought you put that there so people could edit it?
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SuSE - Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:19 am
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fyi - if you guys ever can't find newbs to pick on in ss, you should wander over to the Opera.com forums...it's the funniest place I've ever known

(a joke, of course [the suggestion to go, that is - it truly is the funniest])

D1st0rt - Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:23 am
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ROFL Smong, you are the coolest guy ever

Pests - Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:46 pm
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Haha, nice. Ill start using it when I get home.