tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126907922011-07-07T19:06:39.875-04:00GamingFox's Personal Blog about computers, games, and stuffs.GamingFoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08606305237767700864noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690792.post-90904023373408506562008-09-18T23:48:00.004-04:002008-09-18T23:51:01.494-04:00

I'm back!I'm resurrecting this 3 years old blog, this time with a new purpose!I will make changes to this blog as time goes on.

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After a long consideration, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Team finally settled on....That's right. It is the Mozilla Firefox's RSS icon.From the post:This seemed like a very good idea, so in November, Amar and I took a visit down to Silicon Valley to meet with John Lilly and Chris Beard from Mozilla to get their thoughts on it. We all agreed that it’s in the user’s best interest to have one

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There is a rumor going around that Google is planning to acquire Opera Software ASA, the company who developed Opera Browser.Gary Price said:Dirson's New Google Blog links to a French language blog by Pierre Chappaz (former president of Yahoo! Europe), says that the acquisition is going down but to use the terms given in Google's mechanical translation of the post, this info needs to be "taken

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Recently there been news going around about so-called "exploit" that can crash Mozilla Firefox and cause buffer overflows which allows hackers to break into Firefox. I like to point something out:This "exploit" is, in my opinion, merely just an overrated bug. In most of cases, Firefox didn't crash. All it did is enlarged history.dat to the point (40 megabytes or more) where Firefox get painfully

GamingFoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08606305237767700864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12690792.post-1134207753058189542005-12-10T04:37:00.000-05:002005-12-10T04:42:33.070-05:00

Look! It's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, it's a... Firefox logo!The Hubble Space Telescope took this photo of the variable star V838 Monocerotis which lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy.If you rotate it 180 degrees, you might will notice strikingly similar to Firefox logo.I know this is an old news (March 2004), but still funny news nevertheless.

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That's right, folks. Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is finally released!Basic new features are (as given by MozillaZine): "Firefox 1.5 introduces several new features, including an improved software update system, faster Back / Forward page navigation, a new options to clear private browsing data, drag-and-drop reordering of browser tabs, a redesigned Options/Preferences window and more robust popup

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As reported by Slashdot: "Benjamin Joffe has developed Canvascape - "3D Walker", a simple javascript browser based 3D first person game engine that shows off the capabilities of the Canvas tag found in Firefox, Safari and Opera."It worked beautifully in Firefox 1.5 RC3, but painfully in Safari and Opera 9.0 Preview (because those two browsers are just getting started with canvas). I think this is

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Recently, Microsoft admitted that they successfully attempted to remove references of free softwares from an U.N document, known as Vienna Conclusions (2.8 MB PDF). The document, presented at last week's UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference, discussed about issues around Information Technology and creativity.In original document, it stated:Increasingly, revenue is

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Federico Mena Quintero proposed a proof-of-concept to reduce Mozilla's memory usage (Firefox is based on Mozilla codes). He used XFree86 on Linux to prove it is possible to reduce Mozilla's memory usage by factor of 5.5.His method of reducing memory usage is done by dealing with how Mozilla handle images in cache. Right now, both Mozilla and Firefox handle images by uncompressing them and storing

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Mozilla Firefox Release Candidate 3 is out! It should be ready for software update system. To manually update, go to Help > Check for Updates..., or you rather to wait a day or two for automatic update.For those who do not have Mozilla Firefox 1.5, get it here. Remember this is not FINAL version, just a release candidate.Release Note

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A while ago, if an user want to download a Microsoft product like Microsoft AntiSpyware, they have to pass the "Windows Genuine Advantage" test to prove that they are using a vaild Windows Operating System. It is one of Microsoft's latest attempts to fight Windows privacy. However, the only problem was, to pass the Windows Genuine Advantage test, the users must use Internet Explorer in order to

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Sorry guys, been a while since I post anything. I have been terrible busy with many stuffs. Now I'm back in action.

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Recently, Tom Ferris discovered a major bug in Firefox's handing of web links that may allow a malicous web site to execute malicious code on firefox users' computers. In short, it's called "Host:" Buffer overflow (including proof-of-concept).It worked like this... Imagine you went to a bad, evil website somewhere in the internet, and the website has a link with extremely long address in it like

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I found a very interesting program that act as proxy... greasemonkey style. It's named MouseHole. It will work on all web browsers because all HTML traffic will goes through MouseHole proxy and it will modify the HMTL data by using scripts. That way, you don't have to put extension for every internet browser on your computer, or even better... modify all HTML data from internet to your entire

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After the flame war between Mozilla Firefox and Opera users got really too hot, one person formed a website to bring efforts to spread all non-IE browsers under one roof. The website named "Alternative Browser Alliance", its job is to spread knowledge of the alternatives to unsafe Internet Explorer and hopefully bring Mozilla Firefox and Opera users together.From the site:I launched this site in

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Seem that a company ripped off a perfectly good GPLed firefox extension and sell it under different license.AEVITA is currently selling Web Inspector for Internet Explorer. Judging from the look of the screenshots, icons, documentations, and behavior of the web inspector, it is clearly a rip off of Chris Pederick's Web Developer extension.AEVITA clearly has several violations:1) Some icons are

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Paul Thurrott called for an Internet Explorer boycott after detailing the problems of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 and the lack of actions of IE team to fix them. He also noted that the IE team is not planning to adjust the IE to work with the web standard or even try to pass the Acid2 Test which is considered to be the ulimate test on web standard compliance.Paul Thurrott said:My advice is simple:

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I have been keeping close tab on a great keyboard, Optimus Keyboard. It is invented by Artemy Lebedev, a Russian designer. This keyboard, in my opinion, is the most brilliant computer accessory since webcam. Its like english, russian, game, and all other type of keyboards combinded, plus more. Check out the screenshots in both links.It is incredibly flexible and it will comes with SDK (according

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Asa Dotzler (one of Firefox developers) announced that the Firefox developers have decided to change the versioning of Firefox a little bit. The upcoming Firefox (future versions of Deer Park) will be Mozilla Firefox 1.1 Mozilla Firefox 1.5.Asa said:One major consideration in this decision was that the sheer volume of changes in the Firefox core (Gecko) made a minor .1 increment seem misleading..

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Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 has been released. It included several important fixes and improved stability especially the API compability fix with some of the extensions which was broken by Firefox 1.0.5.Get them while they are hot.

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Read this story about how Google Maps helped him to get out of a traffic ticket.From the article:In January of this year, I was pulled over by a traffic officer for “disobeying a steady red”, a.k.a. running a red light. I pleaded “Not Guilty” to the charge, and today - nearly six months later – I went to court to find out the fate of my ticket violation. Check out how Google Maps saved me some

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The second Alpha version of Deer Park (codename for Firefox 1.1) has been released. It includes huge number of fixes and new features/improvements, like using error pages instead of dialogs, fast back/forward feature is enabled by default, report-a-bad-website feature is enabled by default, and many more.Next stop: Deer Park BETA

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The Mozilla Firefox just passed the 70 million downloads mark.I bet we will get to 100 million mark pretty faster if Firefox 1.1 release by the end of the summer.

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Sorry, I know this is old news...Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 has been released. It included some fixes for recently discovered serious flaws. But unfortunately it broke some of the extensions by changing the API.But the good news is the 1.0.6 is on the way that keep the fixes but fix the extensions API as well.

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Take a look at the new firefox update system for the future Firefox 1.1.From the post (Asa Dotzler):Accomplishing this work is no small feat and we learned a lot from our experiences with the 1.0.x releases. The new system will be much more robust and capable on both the client side and the server side. From the client end, we've got a much improved user experience that should take away pretty

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Check out this story! (No, its not another rabbi joke)It brings smile to my face.

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It seems that some people uploaded DVD rips and other illegal ripped copyrighted movies/tv-shows to Google Video. And whats even worse... Google published them! Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Family Guy, Daily Show, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolution, Phantom of the Opera, Scarface, and many more can be found.It turned out that everyone in U.S. can play them (Google Video Player required) in

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Thats right. Free version of Google Earth is out now. Google Earth is based on Keyhole software made by Keyhole Inc., which recently brought by Google Inc. Google Earth is a world imagery software that "combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips." It connect to remote servers across the Internet and download the

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As some of you know, the next version of Internet Explorer, IE 7, is still under development. Microsoft revealed the IE 7 at Gnomedex and someone got pictures of IE 7 in action.Not bad look for IE, but clearly it has long way to go.

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I am a huge Google fan, and one of my favorite feature offered by Google is the Google Maps. It is still in beta stage but it already has huge impacts on the internet.Because of Google Maps's XML nature, it is incredibly flexable. You can get the information from Google Maps and modify it in any way you want it. Many sites already started taking advantage of easily modifiable mapping information.

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Seem that Google might be offering an online payment service like Ebay's PayPal.From Google Blogoscoped:Gary Price of Search Engine Watch quotes a Wall Street Journal article, saying Google has plans to offer PayPal-like services in the future. Some believe the code name for the project is “Google Wallet.”I am a paypal user and a google fan. I would love to see Google do something like

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Seems that someone in Mozilla made a big "oops" with Firefox trademark.From the article: Although it maintains a policy -- which was recently criticised by many developers of the Debian Linux distribution -- on how its trademarks are used, it does not appear to have registered the Firefox name in Germany and Australia. In the United States and United Kingdom, the foundation has applied for the

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*gasp* Firefox users are ugly!From the article:Elitist online dating website Beautifulpeople.net is excluding Firefox users. Alternative browser users report being given the cold shoulder by the site, which prides itself on only allowing pretty people (as voted by its existing members) to join.When web developers will ever learn how to use the web standard? Geez...

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This is my second GreaseMonkey script: The Email Linkify script.Its sole purpose is to find what look like unlinked email addresses on webpage and "linkifed" them with mailto links. It follows the same concept as the Linkify script but for email addresses only.Features(v0.1):Search for email addresses with ip address, words, and tlds.Linkify them into mailto linksScreenshots:Without ScriptWith

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Mozilla Firefox just bagged another award... this time, the award is PC World's Product of the Year 2005.http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/15805This is one of the biggest awards and Mozilla Firefox won it. This is a great news for the Mozilla community and for users who want to break away from Internet Explorer.Two big thumbs up for Mozilla Firefox.

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Mozilla just released the first alpha version of Deer Park (codename for Firefox 1.1). The second alpha version will be released this month of June.Remember, this is just an alpha version which mean it is one step away from beta and two steps away from final (gold). the alpha version is for testing and developement among developers only. But since it is open-sourced, everyone can be a developer.

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This is my first GreaseMonkey script: The Mailto Envelope script.Its sole purpose is to make mailto links more obvious because mailto links look just like regular html links. What the script does is it scans all the links on a webpage, looking for the mailto links. When it finds mailto links, it unlink it and add hyperlinked envelope to it.Features(v0.1):Use image of envelope instead of

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5718678.htmlFrom the article:In a case documented by San Diego-based Web security company Websense, the attack occurs after a user visits a Web site containing code that exploits a known flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. The flaw is used to download and run a malicious program that in turn downloads an application that encrypts files on the

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Over at cnet.com, they reviewed six browsers: Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4, Opera 8, Netscape 8, Safari RSS, and Deepnet Explorer.Guess who got the top score? Thats right... Firefox with 8.0 points. Internet Explorer and Opera 8 got the last place with 7.0 points.

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The title said it all. Netscape has created two-headed browser (or is it two-headed monster?). Firefox and IE all rolled into one.Seems to be pretty good idea, combinding the best of both world into one. But does it work? PCWorld has some doubts because Netscape 8 are lacking some of Firefox's important features like pop-ups control.Even with the ability to reload misbehaving Web pages in either

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From the DIMES Project, there are two pretty pictures of the Internet. Take a look.Picture 1 (very nice!)Picture 2 (my favorite of the two)For quick read on DIMES and their research, I suggest read the news article (PDF) about it.

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Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 FINAL is out now.http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/Release Notes:http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.4.htmlIt fixed the javascript/iframe exploits (from last post) plus some extra fixes related to DHTML regression.It worked for me, and I strongly recommend to download it and install it.

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Regarding my last post, there has been an update:http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6582Apparently this exploit is a lot worse than I thought. It can disguise itself as either addons.mozilla.org or update.mozilla.org.Turned out that the bug was orginally discovered by Paul of Greyhats Security Group and Michael "mikx" Krax. It was reported last May 2th, and somehow the info of that

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Mozilla Firefox's Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Exploit has been publicized. Basically, what it does is allowing websites to create and execute a malicious batch/exe file. The bug has already been reported a while ago in bugzilla, but only can be viewed by Firefox developers for security reason.But don't panic. The exploit only can be done if you "whitelisted" the site. Because of that, some

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One day, I was surprised to see I got an email in my hotmail account which I almost never used. I got this...Hi GamingFox, I came across your thread by chance whilst surfing for some advice on Firefox v/s IE.6 and I see you have the Firefox on your machine. I hope you don't mind me asking, but is it worth the hassle installing the latest Firefox? I guess Microsoft probably made it an annoying

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